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Fun with Character: The Angel and The Devil
A classroom activity to help understand Decisiveness by exploring listening to wise counsel and avoiding distractions by navigating a blindfolded challenge with conflicting advice from an "angel" and a "devil", and reflecting on how to discern truth to make the right choice.
Fun with Character: Limits
A classroom activity to help understand Creativity by exploring imagination and visual problem-solving by transforming random lines and "squiggles" into recognizable drawings, and reflecting on how there are no wrong answers when thinking outside the box.
Fun with Character: Brainteasers
A classroom activity to help understand Creativity by exploring problem-solving and flexible thinking by engaging with riddles, optical illusions, and logic puzzles, and reflecting on how challenging our perspectives helps us find creative solutions.
Fun with Character: Tom Swifties
A classroom activity to help understand Creativity by exploring wordplay and parts of speech by creating "Tom Swifty" puns using adverbs, and reflecting on how a new perspective can turn a simple sentence into something clever.
Fun with Character: Crush Your Fears
A classroom activity to help understand Courage by exploring overcoming personal anxieties and obstacles by symbolically crushing crackers inside a bag, and reflecting on how to take small, practical steps to conquer real-world fears.
Fun with Character: The Cowardly Lion
A classroom activity to help understand Courage by exploring personal experiences with bravery by recording or drawing a time students felt courageous on a lion worksheet, and reflecting on how past courage can motivate future actions.
Fun with Character: Backbone
A classroom activity to help understand Courage by exploring turning weaknesses into strengths by challenging students to make a piece of paper hold up a heavy book, and reflecting on how to build the inner "backbone" needed to stand up under pressure.
Fun with Character: Confident People
A classroom activity to help understand Confidence by exploring the difference between self-assurance and self-doubt by categorizing behaviors into "Confident" or "Doubting" groups, and reflecting on how to shift toward a more positive and confident mindset.
Fun with Character: Affirmations
A classroom activity to help understand Confidence by exploring positive self-talk and mindset shifts by converting "I will" statements into personal affirmations, and reflecting on how repeating positive beliefs can build self-assurance.
Fun with Character: Describe Yourself
A classroom activity to help understand Confidence by exploring self-awareness and personal value by creating and "giving up" strips of paper representing personal qualities and skills, and reflecting on how these traits shape our identity and decisions.
Fun with Character: It’s Not What You Think
A classroom activity to help understand Compassion by exploring perspective-taking and the "benefit of the doubt" by solving lateral thinking puzzles and brainstorming compassionate scenarios, and reflecting on how understanding others' points of view leads to forgiveness.
Fun with Character: Broken Heart
A classroom activity to help understand Compassion by exploring emotional pain and healing by reassembling a paper heart that has been cut into pieces, and reflecting on how the actions of one person affect the entire group.
Fun with Character: Where Does It Hurt?
A classroom activity to help understand Compassion by exploring physical and emotional hurts by placing smiley stickers on Band-Aids to "heal" each other, and reflecting on how to be alert to the needs of others.
Fun with Character: We Are Cake!
A classroom activity to help understand Collaboration by exploring how individual parts contribute to a whole by assembling a cake puzzle where each piece represents a specific ingredient, and reflecting on how every person is a necessary component of the group.
Fun with Character: Together We Are Stronger
A classroom activity to help understand Collaboration by exploring strength in numbers and group unity by attempting to break a single toothpick versus a bundled group, and reflecting on how working together makes a team more resilient.
Fun with Character: String Painting
A classroom activity to help understand Collaboration by exploring teamwork and shared decision-making by working in pairs to create a design using paint-covered string, and reflecting on how to effectively work with others to achieve a common goal.
Fun with Character: Think
A classroom activity to help understand Cautiousness by exploring the impact of our words on others by creating a THINK poster using a hand-tracing technique, and reflecting on how to be truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind before speaking.
Fun with Character: You Decide
A classroom activity to help understand Decisiveness by exploring peer pressure and decision-making by comparing private hand-raising to public movement in the classroom, and reflecting on how others' opinions influence our choices.
Fun with Character: Safety Rocks!
A classroom activity to help understand Cautiousness by exploring safety and security precautions in the workplace, by interviewing parents about their job site requirements, and reflecting on how family rules similarly protect us.
Fun with Character: The Oranges
A classroom activity to help understand Authenticity by exploring the difference between outward appearance and inner reality by squeezing an orange to see if the juice matches the fruit, and reflecting on the importance of acting with sincerity.