Mazhavilpookkal

After the regular Hello song, Salvin suggested playing a variation of “Snake” game, which included blindfolding of few participants and guiding/driving them by another who is not blindfolded. However, the children wanted to play the classical Snake. Then someone wanted to play a game they play at school with their friends, then everybody had suggestions about which game to play. In a moment the children were all shouting their favourite game and wanting to play that. It took a while for us to compose ourselves and then Salvin showed them the new blindfolds we had stitched for them, and that got them hooked. Everybody wanted to blindfold now, and we played a game in which pairs were formed and one person was blindfolded and the other guided them to discover objects that were hidden in the hall and bring them back. The driver was not allowed to use words, but had to direct the blind folded person through signals - taps on shoulder etc. The chaos continued for a while more as smaller chil