The Kindness Trail

How to play

The class reads a situation and votes on what to do. Each choice leads somewhere different, and the endings differ. Best paired with a discussion after.

Values and character education.

Sample questions

• You are walking the fossil trail to school. Ahead of you a younger boy named Nico trips — his notebook flies open and his papers scatter across the path. Your friends are already at the gate, waving at you to hurry up.

  → Stop and help Nico gather his papers. · Call your friends over to help him, then keep walking. · Look away and hurry to…

• At lunch Maya opens her baon: rice and dried fish, the third day this week. Someone at the next table sniffs loudly and the whole group laughs. Maya closes her container halfway and looks at the floor.

  → Sit beside Maya and ask about the drawing on her notebook. · Tell the group that is enough, then go back to your seat.…

• On the walk home you pass the old fossil garden. Nico is there by himself, trying to lift a fallen sign back into place. It is heavier than he is. Your house is the other way.

  → Put your bag down and lift the other end. · Wave, tell him it looks too heavy, and keep walking.

4 questions in the full game — and any of them can be swapped for your own.