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Flexibility Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! "Flexibility in a stem makes a tree stand in storm. Flexibility in behavior makes a human win hearts."-Anonymous “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible...
Humility Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! "One must be as humble as the dust before he can discover truth." -Mahatma Gandhi “Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows.” -Helen...
Punctuality Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! "That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." -Martin Luther King, Jr. “If I have made an...
Kindness Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."-Albert Schweitzer "As you...
Resilience Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! “When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.” - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross “Things don't...
Generosity Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! “Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.” -Elizabeth Bibesco “You have not lived today until you have done...
Gratefulness Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! "When you drink from the stream, remember the spring.” -Chinese Proverb "Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness....
Diligence Quotes
Responsibility Quotes
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." -Les Brown "The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total...
Positivity Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”-Buddha “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it...
No Matter How You Say It: Wisdom
No Matter How You Say It: Flexibility
No Matter How You Say It: Humility
No Matter How You Say It: Punctuality
No Matter How You Say It: Kindness
No Matter How You Say It: Resilience
No Matter How You Say It: Generosity
No Matter How You Say It: Gratefulness
No Matter How You Say It: Diligence
No Matter How You Say It: Responsibility
Word Origin The word responsible comes from two Latin roots, responsum, which means “an answer, a reply” and spondere, which means “to promise”. Can you see how responsibility is a promised response? Sign Language Check out the following links from www.handspeak.com...
The Longest Sentence
Divide the group into groups of 3 or 4 but have an even number of groups. A scribe is appointed in each group. Give them a sentence starter such as “The purring kitten...”. Each group must create a sentence with the goal being the group who creates the longest...
A Penny For Your Thoughts
This game can be played with pennies or any coin. You will need at least one per person. Have the coins in a bag or a bowl that is easy to pass around. Each person, takes a coin, reads the year (provide a magnifying glass for those who may need assistance), and then...
Vanity Plates
Begin this activity by asking what you see on a car’s license plate. You are looking for two things: the state and a unique number/letter combination. In addition, states can add slogans, and individuals can select from additional decorations such as for military or...
Snowballs
Have each participant write a fact about themselves on an 8 ½ x 11 white sheet of paper. (Excellent use of scrap paper!) Make sure they know the fact will be shared and used to identify them. Do not put a name on the paper. (Younger participants can draw a picture of...
The Gauntlet
If the group is large, you may want to divide it into several gauntlets. If the group is young, you may want to divide the boys and girls. This will take considerable room. Create a gauntlet of participants by forming two lines, facing one another. Space the people in...
Group Thumb Wars
Line up your group in 2 lines facing each other. The players facing each other are partners. Have the partners spread out from the other partners so they don’t easily hear another partner group sharing. If you have an odd number of players, then one person has a “bye”...
Platforms and Promises
Set the stage for an election with your group. You can choose or create a position that all the participants will run for such as “President”, Principal” or “Activities Director”. You may also allow each person to run for whatever office they choose encouraging...
A Song In Your Heart
Ask the group to name some songs that were written about places. After they have named several, explain that people write songs about places that mean something to them. It may be where they met someone special or did something totally new. Have each participant think...
Cartoon “Character”
Discuss famous cartoon characters from Looney Tunes to Disney. Once you have named several characters, allow time for each person to decide which cartoon character they would like to be and what their most visible and positive character trait would be as that cartoon...
Good Graffiti
Each person starts with a sheet of drawing paper and crayons, colored pencils, or markers. The object of the activity is for each person to draw graffiti. Explain that graffiti is drawn on public buildings, trains, bathroom stalls, etc. by individuals who want to...