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Blindfold Activities

The document outlines 10 engaging blindfold activities designed for ESL classrooms, focusing on vocabulary review and teamwork. Activities include games like 'Mystery Object,' 'Trust Me,' and 'Guess Who?' which encourage communication and collaboration among students. These interactive exercises aim to enhance language skills while providing a fun learning environment.

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Blindfold Activities

The document outlines 10 engaging blindfold activities designed for ESL classrooms, focusing on vocabulary review and teamwork. Activities include games like 'Mystery Object,' 'Trust Me,' and 'Guess Who?' which encourage communication and collaboration among students. These interactive exercises aim to enhance language skills while providing a fun learning environment.

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10 Blindfold Activities for Your ESL Classroom

1
Mystery Object
It’s very simple to play, but oh, so much fun for students, plus a fantastic way to review
any type of vocabulary. Place several items inside a bag, like classroom objects. Divide
the class into two teams and students take turns wearing the blindfold. They must take an
item from the bag and feel it to say what it is. There are plenty of ways to make this game
more challenging, like using items that have a similar texture, like a bag of clothes.

2
Trust Me
Re-arrange the furniture in the classroom so it resembles an obstacle course or maze.
Divide students into pairs and give each pair a blindfold. Students have to guide their
partners, without touching them, through the maze by giving directions. You may choose
to add more obstacles like an overturned trash bin, or a “puddle” made out of cardboard.
Once students have successfully passed through the maze, they switch roles with their
partners.

3
Strike a Pose

Students are divided into groups of threes. One student wears a blindfold, another strike a
pose, and the third student must guide the one wearing the blindfold till he or she is imitating
the pose.

4
How Tall Are You?
Give several students blindfolds and tell them to stand one next to the other. Next, tell them
they must arrange themselves according to height. Students must collaborate and ask
each other, “How tall are you?” till they achieve the desired arrangement. You may also ask
them to arrange themselves in alphabetical order, or any type of order, in fact, like age.



5
Follow the Pattern
This one is similar to the previous, but in this case one student is blindfolded and must
arrange objects according to a pattern set forth by the teacher. For example, objects from
smaller to bigger, longer to shorter, in alphabetical order, etc…

6
Guess Who?
Students stand in a circle with one blindfolded student in the center. The teacher spins the
student wearing the blindfold. Each student they face asks them a question, and they must
guess who it is. Tell students they must use a particular tense, like the simple past, and
encourage them to mask their voices, so it’s not so easy to guess. Students who guess
correctly are given points or stickers.

7
Food Tasting
Similar to Mystery Object, this is a fabulous way to review foods and drinks. Students must
guess what food or drink they are tasting. A great game for special Holiday lessons,
like Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas.

8
Pin the Tail on the Globe
As suggested in our article, 5 Fun Games that Teach the Weather, students take turns
wearing a blindfold and mark a location in a world map with either a marker or push pin.
They must then tell the class what the weather’s like there. And there are so many
variations to this game! Ask students what language they speak there, or have them choose
two places and practice comparatives and superlatives. For example, the student first
lands in France and then in the US. The student must make comparisons between the two
countries.

9
Make a Face
To practice the parts of the face (or body) use a cardboard circle for the face and make
eyes, ears, nose, mouth and hair, with either magnets or tape on the back. Make two sets if
you wish to divide your students into two teams and compete. The blindfolded students must
take the parts and assemble them into a face with guidance from their classmates.

 10
Hit the Target

Draw a large bull’s-eye in the center of the board. Divide students into two teams. One
student from each team is blindfolded. Spin both of the students a bit to disorient them.
Each team has to guide its blindfolded student to the bull’s-eye and the one who makes it
there first wins. Rearrange the classroom furniture to make it more challenging.

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