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Give understanding ... Get understood™ with simple, positive words. GivaGeta Smiles™ guarantees you will spark meaningful conversations with the Educational Kindness™ edition of The World's Kindest Playing Cards.  These are 52 traditional playing cards with two jokers for 27 matching pairs of GivaGeta "Educational Kindness" Messages.  The colors on the cards help remove preconceived notions and like all our products represent appreciating diversity to help you make our world a better place. Examples of the short, catchy, kind and positive GivaGeta's are:

• Give a Smile ... Get a Smile™
• Give Kindness ... Get Kindness™
• Give Understanding ... Get Understood™
• Give Respect ... Get Respect™
• Give Honesty ... Get Honesty™
• Give Forgiveness ... Get Forgiven™
• Give a Hello ... Get a Hello™
• Give Friendship ... Get Friendship™
• Give Support ... Get Support™
• Give Appreciation ... Get Appreciation™
• Give Sportsmanship ... Get Sportsmanship™
• Give a High-Five ... Get a High Five™
• Give a Song ... Get Along™

View the image below or enlarge the Full-Size Image on the left to see the cards and other GivaGeta's like trust, patience, responsibilty, caring, support, fairness and more.  The Educational Kindness™ edition of The World's Kindest Playing Cards™ by GivaGeta Smiles™ helps you open the dialogue about positive values giving you a valuable experiential processing tool with regular and creative team building card games to make a positive difference in people's lives.

Character Development in a fun filled way with Smiles, Kindness, Respect, Friendship, Sportsmanship and more.
This collection of 54 cards can be used to facilitate team challenges, ice breakers, games, debriefing, processing and reviewing activities. The World's Kindest Playing Cards™ give you new, fun and positive ways to open dialogue and create teachable moments that engages all ages.

A great supplement for your character education curriculum and complement National RTI, SRBI, PBS (Positive Behavior Support), Core Values, Life and Social Skills programs. Participants and team members are now given the opportunity to recognize positive character traits that help you enhance relationships and create positive results. Youth Development organizations including camps find these great for self directed free time activities, time fillers, quality downtime and rainy day life savers. A fun addition to welcome kits, camp stores and every bunk.

For Character, Leadership and Team Building Activities the Oversize and GIANT size make it is easier to see what is printed on them.

Simple positive words for Positive Youth Development. Some positive outcomes found by an organization that develops girls as leaders are: 1) Reducing emotional bullying in girls 2) a tool for youth peer mediated conflict resolution 3) positive values in a fun filled way.

The World's Kindest Playing Cards™ by GivaGeta Smiles™ Educational Kindness™ Edition are a valuable experiential processing tool to facilitate creative card games ~ all to make a positive difference in people's lives.

Positive Values. Positive Thinking. Positive Results™.  At the 2010 ACA Tri-State conference GivaGeta Smiles was inspired after hearing the world famous positive psychologist Keynote Speaker Shawn Achor a teacher and researcher at Harvard University and now  founder and CEO of Aspirant - an applied research consulting firm that works with organizations seeking to create a more positive, productive workplace -  talk about positive psychology we learned the 27 matching pairs of short, catchy, kind and positive GivaGeta Kindness Messages like Give a smile ... Get a smile™, Give a hello ... Get hello™ seem to be "Mirror Neurons".

The example he gave was to have one person make a poker face and the other smile at them. In this simple experiment he showed the audience when you give a smile, you get a smile and how a simple smile can make a positive difference in individuals and organizations. Try the "Mirror Neuron" test with a friend!  And yes, after Shawn Achor's Keynote Speech, The GivaGeta tradeshow booth was FLOODED with people buying The World's Kindest Playing Cards. Thank you Shawn for your great work in positive psychology and neuroscience enhancing people's lives and organization's success. And yes, Shawn Achor captivates his audiences.

Smiles, Giggles, Laughs & other Positive Outcome examples:

• Team Build and Develop Leaders
• Open the Dialogue
• Reduce Emotional Bullying
• Peer Mediated Conflict Resolution
• Prizes with Meaning
• Removing Preconceived Notions
• Encouraging Positive Behavior
• Developing a Strong Sense of Self
• Create Teachable Moments

Learn By Doing Activities

“Our experience with The World’s Kindest Playing Cards was great! They worked out really well for us. THIS SUMMER (2008) THE CARDS HELPED REDUCE EMOTIONAL BULLYING IN GIRLS. We use the cards for self-directed free time activities and gave them as general supplies when the girls arrived.

We use the GIANT size deck with your programming book for interest groups and CREATIVE CARD GAMES. They are learning life skills that will really help them grow and develop morals that the parents are already looking for. 

DEFINITELY A 10 ... these are fabulous!”
~ Meghan S., Outdoor Program & Service Manager Camp Director

"These are wonderful. I do team building programs at our camp so what I want is new props all the time and these particular props are great because of all the different game activities you can do with them immediately. They’re large. They have great impressions. The colors are awesome so that’s going to get the point across. These are all important concepts and values that we can get across in such a simple way. I can’t wait to use them."
~ Alex T., Camp Owner/Director, New Milford CT

"In my experience, kids who played a lot of games, whether they’re board games or card games, with their families or with their friends have a really good idea of how the numbers fit together. Their number sense is more developed than other kids. I would have to give it a 10. It’s unique, it’s different and I think it will really get the kids’ attention."
~ Nicole R., Math Teacher & Camp Director, East Otis, MA

"We love this program because this program you can use it quickly. You break out the cards and play a game of Peace and they sublimely get these messages through. You can use it as an evening activity or as a quick activity. It’s great, you can’t go wrong with this. You are always looking for new things to stretch the kids and to grow them and grow their character development. And this is such a great thing to do that. "
~ Nora, Hinsdale, MA

"When we’re hiking on the trail sometimes the kids get tired or sick of looking at bugs. We need to pause, do something else. For wholesome activities that don’t require electricity or a lot of props, good plan. It fits the bill. It’s something that doesn’t need anything but itself and a group of kids and that’s what we have."
~ Emily B., Milton, MA

"... our leadership retreat as a warm-up activity to get people to know each other and exchange ideas. I can see this maybe being something I’d use in cabins, where kids maybe aren’t getting along and we need to kind of reassess what we’re doing there and how they might treat each other better. It might give staff confidence who don’t know how to talk with kids to have a prop to deal with that issue."
~ Ellen F., Camp Director in Salisbury, VT

"I think it is amazing and you should continue your effort.  Educating children is the most important thing, especially teaching them manners and how to be nicer to other children. We will definitely use it. I think this will be a wonderful idea for the kids to use these because they play cards all the time.  What better than to have something to tell them the way they should behave and act?"
~ Beth Stasuk, Director, Galloway, NJ

"At our camp during our orientation process with staff, we do talk about fostering an environment where these kind of things are right up that alley: desired behavior, respect, teamwork, friendship, how to label that when we see it, how to praise it when it happens. It opens the dialog and gets kids talking about what those things mean rather than just words on a piece of paper or words on a card. Anytime you take something like this and make a game out of it, kids respond well to that. I definitely see especially the larger ones probably being used as part of an orientation with your staff. It’s large, it’s something you can put up behind you that everybody can see it. The small ones in particular are great. The kids can play in the bunk. We have kids in our camp that spend some of their down time just with their buddies in the bunk playing Spades and stuff like that and these are the size cards that they’re using so it’s perfect."
~ Gene M., Cascade, MD

"They’re bright, they’re colorful, something fun, different and a subtle way to throw it in to everything that you’re doing. I can see us using all different sizes for different things. The small ones can definitely be used in small groups, working and doing things in a bunk, the large ones in large group activities."
~ Erin A., Cascade, MD

"I think sometimes we miss the important things like friendship, like learning respect, understanding how children need to get those basic really, really important messages. I think the cool thing about the cards is that they teach those messages. They give children the opportunity to learn a little more about these important fundamentals things that matter to us as human beings.
Unfortunately, too few people realize that it’s all about connecting to people, it’s all about learning about other individuals and the more that I learn about you the more I understand myself. By us understanding each other we’re able to make the world a much better place.
Children can learn these fundamental things such as manners and respect. We can teach them in way that is exciting. We can try to find ways that are creative so children are able to learn and not just try to force-feed them information but help them to learn that learning is an exciting process.."
~ Cecil C., Chevy Chase, MD

"Because of the apparent set-up of being playing cards, and the fact that you can little by little into it, you can go one card at time or two cards at a time, and you can sort of sneak the good stuff in.  It makes me optimistic that this will work."
~ Andy P., Camp Director in Columbus, NJ

"I was very excited to see your program. I can’t wait to use it with my staff training and with my girls this summer. The first thing that caught my eye were the colors and then I started looking at what the meanings were on each one of the cards and I think it kind of touched me because these are things we instill in life every day but I don’t think that we really remember to do these. I like the way it’s set up. I think it’s something I can do with the staff and also carry on with the kids and I think by having fun playing cards they also get the messages that we really want them to take. I like to see children change, I like to see them have a good time and if I can make a difference in one child’s life, that’s what’s important to me. I get to share these wonderful values with them. The sharing of love, the sharing of life, wrap it all up with the outdoors—what a package!"
~ Valerie, Resident Camp Manager in Hartford, CT

"We were just looking at these cards thinking about how could we utilize them at camp and we’re thinking that they’re good with all ages so anywhere from our youngest campers up to our oldest campers can use them. And if there’s issues at camp this is a good way to get the girls talking and respecting each other.
Absolutely a 10! They’re easy to read for the younger girls which is really important and they’re colorful and would really get them involved in working in conflict resolution and different ideas like that."
~ Erin, Waltham, MA

"I’m totally excited about buying these cards because we actually run a camp every year called ‘Cards N More,’ for kids who don’t like to do all the physical outside stuff all day so we do games and activities and these are perfect for us, so I’m very excited."
~ Michele K., Camp Director, YMCA - Indianapolis, IN