Blindfolded Games Good Morning
( Blindfolded, Call and Response, Guessing, Memory )This is a very pretty sense-training game –cultivating discrimination through the sense of hearing. Little children are very fond of it and it is most interesting and surprising to note the development of perceptive power through the playing of the game.
One player blinds his eyes. He may do this by going to a corner of the room and facing the wall with his hand over his eyes or a very pretty method is to have him go to the teacher or leader with his face hidden in her lap and her hands on either side of his head like the blinders of a horse.
The teacher then silently points to some other player in the class who rises at once and says “Good morning David ” (or whatever the childs name may be). The little guesser if he has recognized the voice responds with “Good morning Arthur ” (or other name). If he does not guess the voice after the first greeting the child may be required to repeat it until the guesser has had three trials. Should he fail on the third trial he turns around to see who the player was and changes places with him. If he names the right player the guesser retains his position until he fails to guess the voice of the one greeting him one player after another being required to stand and give the greeting “Good morning ”
When pupils have become somewhat proficient in the guessers place the others should be required to change their seats after the guesser has blinded his eyes so that he will not be assisted in his judgment by the direction from which the voice comes which is very easily the case where the other players are in their accustomed seats.
Of course the greeting will be varied according to the time of day being “Good afternoon ” or “Good evening ” as may be appropriate. Occasionally in a school game a pupil from another room may be called in. Should a strange voice be heard in this way the little guesser is considered correct if he answer “Good morning stranger “