Peace Trading Cards

These are the front and back samples of what Philly Yearly Meeting Kidz might do with the images of Peace and Violence made in committee meetings!

• What do you think about the idea and the design?


• What is your suggestion for what should be written on the back?


• Should the cards ask their holder to pass them on to friends to ask others to make a choice about peace or violence?

Post a comment with your opinions!

Report: Raising Money for Homeless

Committee Name: Raising Money for the Homeless
Monthly Meeting Name: March Sessions of the Yearly Meeting
Number of participants: lots
Amount of money spent on materials for this committee: $0

This is what we did to create peace: We brainstormed ideas for Meetings, Middle School and Young Friends and children’s program planners to use to raise money.
We feel: excited about all the good ideas that came up to raise money for homelessness. (these ideas will be included in the handbook that will be sent to Monthly Meetings and will be downloadable from the web after April 15).

Report: Peace Play

Committee Name: Peace Play
Monthly Meeting Name: March Sessions of the Yearly Meeting
Number of participants: 5
Amount of money spent on materials for this committee: $0

This is what we did to create peace: We wrote an outline for a script about peace for Meetings to use to raise money, based on the dilemma for 2 donkeys. Meeting members can present their own stories of peaceful resolutions to conflict within families, communities and Meeting and in the world!
We feel: showing our connectedness through this play can be an important vehicle for peace!

Report: Postcard Lobbying and Party Planning

~Committee Name: Postcard Lobbying & Party Planning
~Monthly Meeting Name: March Sessions of the Yearly Meeting
~Number of participants: 3
~Amount of money spent on materials for this committee: $3.00, plus postage

This is what we did to create peace: We wrote about civil liberties, earth stewardship and peace and we planned fun.

We feel: excited about fun ideas!

*See this committee’s plan for postcard writing party to be published as part of the Committee Handbook on the PYM Children's RE webpage (after April 15, 2007)

Report: Images of Peace Committee

~Committee Name: Images of Peace (Drawing upon our images of peace, love, war and hate)
~Monthly Meeting Name: March Sessions of the Yearly Meeting
~Number of participants: 11
~Amount of money spent on materials for this committee: $0 (we will spend money when we convert the drawn pictures into cards)

This is what we did to create peace: Share and listen to each other and put our images on paper to be turned into cards

We think: visual images can crystallize our visions of peace. Sitting together at a table and doing something creative together makes us feel more at peace.

Report: Trash Collectors

~Committee Name: Trash Collectors
~Monthly Meeting Name: March Sessions of the Yearly Meeting
~Number of participants: 12
~Amount of money spent on materials for this committee: $0

This is what we did to create peace: We picked up trash around Arch Street Meetinghouse’s grounds.

We feel: We feel like doing this again. We feel more connected to this community. It was fun and we made the world around the Meetinghouse more beautiful. It made us glad to do something so that someone else did not have to do it. We felt appreciated by the neighbors. The walking and the talking produced one more peaceful link.

Report: Be Nice!

~Committee Name: Be Nice!
~Monthly Meeting Name: March Sessions of the Yearly Meeting
~Number of participants: 14
~Amount of money spent on materials for this committee: $0

This is what we did to create peace: We created connection by writing good things about each other and making them into a chain. We breathed together with a partner and were inspired.

We feel: Being nice feels nice. Other people being nice feels nice.