Play Cards. Teach Kindness. 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.
GivaGeta Smiles™ helps teach kindness with short, catchy, simple positive words called GivaGeta Kindness Messages or "GivaGeta's for short that are printed on The World's Kindest Playing Cards™. We find if you focus on the positive you will get more positive. GivaGeta cards are regular playing cards with 27 short, catchy, kind positive values printed on them. Positive values like Give a smile ... Get a smile™, Give Kindness ... Get Kindess™, Give understanding ... Get understood™, Give respect ... get respect™. GivaGeta Smiles helps you teach postive values in a fun filled way that people remember throughout their lives.
Standard Playing Card Size Deck. (2.5" x 3.5") Great for individual and small to medium size groups.
Each deck includes 52 traditional playing cards plus two jokers and 27 matching pairs of GivaGeta Educational Kindness Messages™ including:
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™
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.
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.
Playing GivaGeta Kindness Memory Match - This is the idea of the game that a nine-year old boy came up by suggesting we put the short, catchy, kind and positive GivaGeta Kindness Messages on playing cards!
Smiles, Giggles, Laughs & other Positive Outcome examples shared by youth development professionals using these. Since exhibiting at the 2008 American Camp Association National Conference in Nashville Tennesse, and selling out of our first print run of 10,000 of our standard size playing card decks, we are quite grateful hearing from youth development professionals in over 45 states and 26 countries all over the world that The World's Kindest Playing Cards™ by GivaGeta Smiles™ are living up to their name. They have been found by many organizations and especially an organization that develops girls as leaders (who were some of the first to try these two years ago) to have lots of teachable moments! The links below are downloadable PDF stories sharing positive outcomes we are hearing from youth development professionals throughout the United States. Click here to view a listing of some Positive Outcomes.
Opens the Dialogue and gets kids talking
Teaching positive values for positive thinking and positive results while playing regular card games
Removing Preconceived Notions and giving people a chance - the colors on the cards are different and represent appreciating diversity. You can use this as a tool to teach that everything is not as it always seems to be. An encourage people to give each other a chance.
In camps and youth development organizations:
As self directed free time & down time activities
A kind gift in your Welcome Kits
For resale at Trading Posts and Camp stores
A positive FUNdraiser with a suggested selling price of $5.00 per deck
For Positive Youth Development - kids (of all ages :) seem to really like the short, catchy, kind and positive GivaGeta's!
Consider getting a deck for every child or camper. If your budget only allows, consider getting just one deck for every bunk.
Ideal to supplement your curriculum or strategy for National RTI, SRBI, Character Education, PBS (Positive Behavior Support), Core Value Development or Life and Social Skills programs. Team members are now given the opportunity to recognize positive character traits that improve relationships and help create positive results.
Teaching positive values in a fun filled way while just playing regular card games at the American Camp Association (ACA) Conference.
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Learn By Doing Activities
Learn By Doing Activities
In addition to playing all your favorite cards games, instructions are included for these three games: Go GivaGeta™ For 2 or more players. Similar to Go Fish, in Go GivaGeta, players must make pairs by asking other players for cards. The player with the most pairs, after any player has run out of cards, is the winner!
GivaGeta™ Kindness Memory Match™ For 1 or more players. All 52 cards in the deck are laid out on a table, face down. The player(s) must then choose two at a time, trying to find matches.
GivaGeta™ Kindness Card of the Day Pick a "GivaGeta Kindness Message Playing Card" at the beginning of the day. During the day, each student will practice this specific "GivaGeta Kindness Message". At the end of the day, each person will share their results from practicing the "GivaGeta Kindness Message" and how it made them feel.
For 36 "Learn By Doing" Character, Leadership & Team Development Activities, get our programming book, Give Teamwork ... Get Results™Playing with a Full Deck of The World's Kindest Playing Cards™. Includes positive and engaging Ice Breakers, Time Fillers, Energizers, Opening and Closing Activities.
Reviews
“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.
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 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 with 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 S., 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. The small cards 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. The small cards can definitely be used in small groups, working and doing things in a bunk." ~ 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
The World’s Kindest Playing Cards by GivaGeta Smiles
