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Ignore my spelling errors. 🙁 I’m terrible at checking my own writing.

*puts on thinking cap* Hrmmm… well, the first game that comes to mind is Blindman’s Bluff. Then there’s a similar but less ‘dangerous’ game that doesn’t have a name, where ‘It’ stands blindfolded in the middle of the room and one player at a time tries to sneak past (and around) him without getting touched.
And honestly I have zero head for money outside of straightforward marketing, so I really wouldn’t know anything about the fundraising bit of it. 😛 The cake auction sounds like a good idea, as do the jellybeans. I’ll let you know if I come up with anything else.

Do you mean the theme would be spiritual blindness, and you’d just play physically ‘blind’ games, or would the theme be physical blindness (probably not, but I want to make sure I get what you’re saying. 😉 )?
And ditto to what Kate said about fundraising…sorry. 😛 Have some sort of craft sale, maybe? *helpless shrug*

Hmmm…. that’s a great thing to raise funds for, @bluejay! Who will you be giving the money to? (i.e. Compassion, Samaritan’s Purse, a missionary at your church, etc.) Well, the only games I can think of that haven’t already been suggested would be searching through something like rice, blindfolded, to find a small object, like a marble, pebble, or other small object. You could give each person 20-30 seconds, and let them pay a dollar or something for a chance to win a prize. I’ve done similar games before. Hope that helps!

@bluejay Would it be indoors or outdoors? I know two games that raise money, but they don’t have a thing to do with blindness. You know the type of game where you try to throw a small object either into a basket or through a small hole in a board or to knock something down? You could charge 25 or 50 cents per toss. The other game is quite a bit more complicated, but I’ll mention it just in case it’s possible. Here we have a store called Bass Pro, and they have a “gun range” with guns that just shoot lasers, and there are targets with laser receptors that go off if you “hit” them. I think they charge 25 cents per shot. Ooh, and you could have an icecream stand. We do it at church; it’s very easy. You just need a cooler, and several big tubs of icecream. It seems for us like $1.00 per cone is enough to break even, but with no profit, so you might have to charge more than that. You could also charge $1.00 admission. I think a baked goods auction would be a really good idea. One game that is great for children and young people, although it doesn’t really work for elderly people, is Gaga Ball. We do it at church. Have you heard of it? I think you can find it, if you look it up on the Internet. There are so many fun games to play in the dark, but the only ones I can think of right now are the silly ones that we children made up when we were younger; they would definitely not work. What about a dry-land version of Marco Polo? The “it” has his eyes closed, and everyone can move about freely (in a room or some enclosed space, of course), but when “it” calls “Marco”, everyone has to give away their position by answering “Polo”. I think it would be safest if there was no running allowed. I’m all out of ideas; do any of those work?