I would like to find some activities to do with blind children?

Question

I would like to find some activities to do with blind children?

Answer 1

Traffic lights game. When they hear the word RED, they stop.  GREEN they have to move around, AMBER they have to move in slow motion - it's a fun game for ALL children!

Answer 2

you should take them on a tour.

they will love it.

or just giveb them a surprise party

Answer 3

A search for; "blind children activities" will give many sources;

http://www.blindchildren.org/sports_game...

Thinking off hand, I would try a lot of hands on interactions. Letting them feel and pet different safe animals and bugs etc. and learn to know them by touch. One if they wanted to try, would be baiting a hook with a worm and fishing. Knowing to feel a fish when it take the bait.

Learning to swim, but, it would take me a while to figure how to teach a direction, maybe the feel of the sun on their face or the sound of waves on the shore.

This just a few ideas, I could think of many, just take time and really knowing the interests of the child.

Answer 4

marco polo?

Answer 5

name that tune.

Answer 6

For preschool, right? This is in Preschool?

A few things come to my mind right away. I would guess that you want the children to build and develop those other four senses while learning to be independent.

For hearing, we do a lot of clap what the teachers claps, it helps to build oral language skills as well math skills in little kids. Blind children can listen to music, play with musical instruments, sing, and play musical games. You can do direction games, like simon says, where you give them a verbal direction and they follow it.

For tasting the idea I guess would be to help them with some everyday activities, like eating your snack or getting a drink of water, as well as the developing their sense of taste through sampling different foods. I would think that it is going to be important for blind children to learn the motor skills needed to eat food cleanly and politely without a lot of assistance. In the past when I have eaten with people who are blind they use their fingers in the food a lot, not in a rude way but to figure our what they are eating and where it is on the plate. You may need to patiently teach those kinds of skills, have lots of napkins handy.

Clearly it is going to be very important to develop their senses of touch and physical motor skills. You can do lots of art projects like finger painting, tearing paper and gluing to make pictures, paintings with paint brushes, playing with clay and play-doh, coloring with crayons, markers, and pencils, using the shape based pattern blocks to make patters, and sculpting out of recycled materials. Do not just expect them to make scribbles on the paper, give them instructions like, draw bear like this teddy bear. They may not do it but setting expectations that are not dumbed down seems like a good idea. I would have them do lots of sorting items into different groups using their sense of touch. Buttons are a classic sorting toy, but you can buy kits of things like trucks or farm animals that are meant to be sorted as well. Counting with toys will be important too, to hear the number and then count off a group of that many.  

Smell might be a good way for them to understand their surroundings too, although a lot of my preschoolers are sensitive to things like perfume, dust, grass clippings, etc. They get sick and sneeze all day. Please be careful about putting really fragrant things right in the face of a young child. But if there is somewhere that has a particular smell, like right by the school cafeteria the soccer field, be sure you point it out. Say something like, smell that? It smells like grass, we must be on the soccer field. Also, you can ask them to point out how areas smell to you since their noses might be more finely attuned than yours.

Good luck. I think the best thing to do is realize that children who are blind can in fact complete most of the activities that a child who can see does, they just might have a different way of doing it. Children are surprisingly manipulative; don’t let them talk you into doing everything for them because independence is key in primary education.