Helping Cards
Building resilience and making your home a tidier, cleaner, happier place.
We wanted to get children off their phones and back in the family, so we invented a hands-on card game that engages them with household chores. But Pocket Money Cards does so much more than that.
80 different tasks, 10 blank cards so you can adapt the game to your own household and 10 Excuses! Cards get your whole household talking, playing their part in making and maintaining their home, and learning the real-life survival skills they’ll need to become more self-reliant, capable, balanced, and confident.
It gets them face-to-face around a table, finding ways to solve problems, collaborate, and celebrate their successes. Helping each other. Finding out for themselves how to do things better.
Life is about balance. Pocket Money Cards can help you strike the right balance in your family, wherever you live.
And you get a cleaner, tidier home at the same time! How good is that?
More than just a game.
Helping Cards was inspired and informed by Harvard University’s Grant and Glueck studies, researching the things that make healthy, happy adults since 1938.
Helping Cards is designed to get
children off their phones, build resilience and self-reliance, to bring families closer together
and promote well-being.
Plus, you get a tidier home. How good is that?
More than just a game, Helping Cards helps homes flourish.
Discover the benefits
Learning responsibility
Empower kids to take charge and grow with every task!
Developing teamwork
Strengthen family bonds by working together!
Turning everyday chores into life-building experiences
Make chores fun and rewarding for a brighter future!
All that, and a cleaner, tidy house you can actually live in without wanting to scream! You're welcome.
How To Play
Helping Cards games adapt to suit every type of family in every kind of home.
Each pack includes 80 different chores as well as blank cards so you can make your own to meet your own unique circumstances.
Suitable for ages four to fourteen.
Everyone Can Play
The dealer can include themselves in the game. First, decide the rewards, and the number of completed chores the players need to earn their rewards. Next, tell the players and stick to it. The best rewards aren’t bribes. Instead, make the rewards involve everyone, whether it’s a trip to the park, their choice of bedtime story or a ski holiday. It’s what suits your household.
Remember: Before you do anything, tell the players what the reward is going to be. And stick to it. This is vital. If you can't think of a reward, ask the players to discuss what the reward should be,
Make The Game Your Own
The dealer can remove cards to suit their circumstances. If you don’t have a garden then you’ll probably want to remove the gardening cards. Some tasks may be better suited to older children, and you know them far better than we do! Just remove the cards you don’t need today. Pocket Money Cards, the first in the series, has been designed with 80 different chores to suit a wide range of household circumstances. There are blank cards so you can write your own chores, specific to your home.
Do The Shuffle….
Shuffle the pack, face down. Each player takes five cards, without seeing what the chore is.
Excuses!
If a player gets an Excuses! Card, they can give it back. If they get five Excuses! cards in one
hand, no chores! But just like real life, no work means no rewards.....
I Hate Doing That!
If a player truly, madly, deeply doesn’t like their chore, it’s ok. They can give it return that
card to the pack and take two other chore cards. They have to do both of those. Who
said life was fair?
Did You Think It Was Over?
It's not. This is possibly the most important part of the game.
Get the players to discuss how they approached their chores and how they got better at them. Get everyone talking about the positive changes that carrying out the chores have made for everyone.
The players have exercised autonomy, helped others, worked as a
team and earned the satisfaction of knowing they’ve helped other people.
You get a tidier, cleaner home, too.
How good is that? Everybody wins!
Boost Independence
with Helping Cards
Family Harmony
Enhance family bonds with engaging tasks.
Skill Building
Have fun building essential life skills.
Chore Completion
Make chores enjoyable for all ages.
Thinking About It
Discover our insights into child development, building resilience,
mobile phones and family harmony through fun and practical resources.