Crafts With Blindfolds

Blindfold your children when crafting to stimulate their sense of touch. Give a new perspective to painting, modeling and drawing crafts by using a blindfold. You can make a blindfold using a bandanna, a scarf or any other piece of cloth long and wide enough to cover the eyes. Alternatively, buy a sleeping mask or help the children to make their own blindfolds.
  1. Modeling Crafts

    • Distribute clay or play dough to the blindfolded children. You can allow them to freely create anything with the clay or give them instructions, according to what you want them to form. Alternatively, organize the children in pairs, tell them a story, blindfold them and ask them to create their favorite character. Still blindfolded, ask them to swap their creation with the colleague and try to guess what they formed.

    Painting Crafts

    • Distribute paper, paint and brushes to the children. Blindfold them and ask them to draw their favorite fruit, best friend or even to make a self-portrait. Alternatively, team them up in pairs. One child will tell step-by-step what the blindfolded colleague has to paint. When the project is finished, have the children swap positions. Put different paint colors in pots of different shapes, so the children can identify the colors by touching the pots.

    Drawing Crafts

    • Cut different geometric shapes, such as circles, squares and triangles, out of cardboard. Give them to blindfolded children and ask them to draw objects with similar shapes. Play music and ask children to draw according to their feelings when listening to it. Distribute different objects to the children and ask them to draw them. Alternatively, organize the children in pairs; give them a piece of paper each and pencils of different colors to draw. Allow the blindfolded pairs to decide what they want to draw. After a couple of minutes, ask them to swap papers and finish their colleague's drawing.

    Mosaic Crafts

    • Select bottle caps, beads, dry pasta of different shapes, seashells, pipe cleaners, small pieces of paper and other materials to create a mosaic. Give each child a piece of cardboard, glue and a box with the selected materials. Blindfold them and ask them to create a mosaic on the cardboard. Alternatively, decorate a can or the lid of a shoebox.

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