Strength Cards for Kids - Third Edition

Strength Cards for Kids has a simple message: all children deserve to be recognised and celebrated for their strengths. Strengths help children learn, grow and become the best they can be.

Since 1996, Strength Cards for Kids has been an asset in the toolkits of psychologists, social workers, teachers, student welfare coordinators and counsellors. This new edition allows professionals and parents to use the ever-popular jungle theme as a prompt for stories, murals, group activities and creative play—to share those all-important, strengths-based messages!

Now in its third edition, Strength Cards for Kids features a mixed bunch of raucous, funny, serious, quiet, loud, big, small and rather outrageous animal characters. They get up to all kinds of antics, most of which you will never see when you are visiting animals in a zoo, park or sanctuary. That’s because (as any child knows) animals only do these things when humans aren’t looking, such as:

• An elephant and a tortoise playing soccer
• A sloth in a hammock reading her favourite book
• A rabbit bandaging the leg of a yak
• A conga line of critters in the living room
• A rhino pondering his next chess move
• A meerkat on surf lifesaving duty.

These are the kinds of activities you will see in Strength Cards for Kids. Why are the animals doing all these things in Strength Cards for Kids? Well, apart from having a huge amount of fun, they are demonstrating their strengths! And everyone has strengths, including us humans.