- Organise a game of Kim’s Game with your patrol
- Do an obstacle course blindfolded, with a partner at your side to give directions.
- With your patrol or unit, try doing ‘drawings in the dark’. Turn off the lights and try drawing a house, a tree, a person – see who can do the best in the dark.
- Try walking around the hall with your eyes closed, using a long stick to tap in front of you.
- Can you become more confident doing this?
- Take photos of well-known people from magazines and cut out around the eyes. See if the Guides can recognise the people by their eyes.
- Organise an observation walk for your unit
- Know the alphabet in Braille.
- Be able to count from 1 to 20 using Braille.
- Have a visit from a Guide dog and learn about what they do and how to approach them.
- Go on a walk, and see if you can spot one natural object for each colour in the rainbow.
- Be able to read and write a message using a form of code.
- Find out how the eye works and list two ways to take care of our eyes.
- Find out about colour blindness.
Need more of a challenge?
- After reading a passage from a book, re-tell that passage in sign language.
- Demonstrate the use and care of a microscope.
- Learn about optical illusions and show some to your unit.
- Learn about iridology and take turns diagnosing each other
- Find out about Fred Hollows.
