Mystery Motivators are great for kids but better together! Plan on making Mystery Motivator ideas you can do together as a family. Use these ideas to choose something everyone would love!

What better way to spread peace, productivity, healthy and happiness than gratitude? Spend some time this summer on a special scavenger hunt for gratitude!

Use these ideas to put some summer excitement into your Mystery Motivators! Pick and choose from these ideas or think up some of your own!

Use Random Sticks to help with chores throughout the summer! Write all your household chores on craft sticks. Pick from the sticks to assign daily or weekly chores. To change things up, have kids choose their Random Sticks. This strategy ensures fairness for children and allows adults to depend on the random process to assign work.

Use family game night as a way to introduce Low Emotional Response. Play Summer Charades with your kids, have them use their hands to act out each charade. This can be used as a teaching moment to talk to your children about using our hands to communicate. Showing them a simple thumbs up is a way of saying "Great job, keep up the great work". Showing a thumbs down is a quick "check yourself". Once the child changes their behavior they should be given an immediate thumbs up! This strategy provides a low emotional response to children's behavior.

Family Night! Plan to make a family Random Stick/Mystery Motivator container over the summer! Use chalk or craft paint to paint a coffee canister. Brainstorm ideas and write on craft sticks to choose when you catch someone being a PAX Leader. Allow kids to provide suggestions for Mystery Motivators and even encourage your children to "catch" their siblings being a PAX Leader to earn a Mystery Motivator!

Top picture: End of year PAX Celebration 2018, at North Elementary. One of the "prize stations" included a rock painting area where students could create their own artwork from rocks!

Bottom picture: End of year PAX Celebration 2018, at LaCroft Elementary. Teachers did not let a little rain dampen their plans to allow students to create artwork with sidewalk chalk as a "prize station". Students created their chalk artwork on black paper and displayed it in the hallway!

The PAX Promise is used in our local school districts as an addition to the Pledge of Allegiance on the morning announcements. Students are encouraged to recite the promise as a reminder that they can help "better their world, and better themselves".

Crestview Local Elementary got creative with this amazing display to remind students there is a PAX Leader in all of us! Mirror mirror on the wall, there's a PAX Leader in us all!