How to fill a bucket activities

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Ways to be a bucket filler

Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud is a great book to teach young children about caring for others. How our actions and words hurt people around us. The book uses colorful illustration to teach an important lesson, thinking about others. The book describes everyone has an invisible bucket, you might not see it but it is there. The bucket’s purpose is to hold your good thoughts that make you warm and fuzzy.

I love all of the different bucket-filling books that exist. I recently used bucket-filling books in the self-esteem group I co-facilita...

Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A book review with lots of classroom resources including a bucket coloring freebie and a chant!

One concept that I love using with the students in my social skills group is that of Bucketfilling. This idea is based on the book "Have Y...

Avoid trial and error—use this tested approach to start bucket filling successfully in the primary grades. Try out these bucket filling activities!

These preschool activities will encourage kindness. You''ll find bucket filler activities, crafts & kindness projects inspired by the book "Fill a Bucket."

I love using children’s literature to help students understand a concept. One of my favorite books to share with my students at the beginning of the year to help them transition to school and how we should act is How Full Is Your Bucket? (affiliate link) This is a great story to introduce how we should interact with our classmates and why. In this story, a little boy named Felix is taught about an invisible bucket. His grandfathers share with him that when your bucket is dipped, you feel bad…

After reading the book "Have You Filled a Bucket Today" each child made their own bucket out of a paper cup, colored paper, and pipe cleaner. Every time they do something to fill someone else's "bucket" they add pom poms to their bucket and when their bucket is full they get a bucket filler award and a home work pass!

Have you filled a bucket today? Teach your students how to be kind and respectful with this unique bucket filler concept.

In my kindergarten class we are bucket fillers. My sweet little kinders grasped the concept easily and are very quick to let you know if you are being a bucket filler or dipper. Thank goodness we have had more bucket fillers than dippers. We started off by reading, Have you filled a bucket today? Then we made an anchor chart to help remind us what it means to be a bucket filler and a bucket dipper. Who wouldn't want to be apart of a class where kids say nice things, give hugs, share, and…

Combine little buckets, sparkly cloud dough, and craft materials for this Have You Filled a Bucket Today Book Activity Craft to teach kindness.

Five fun and easy activities to learn about kindness to complement the popular book "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?"

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If you're looking for a book to share with kids that encourages kindness, compassion, & gratitude then this is for you. Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud is a beautiful storybook with a wonderful concept that will help children (& adults) understand that simple actions can change the world for the better. I first came across this book a couple of years ago & it's just one of those children's books that stays with you. The story is so simple but also so clever, & the colourful…

Have You Filled a Bucket Today? {Storytime Craft Activity} Ever since we discovered the book Have You Filled a Bucket Today, we've been reading it nonstop and it has made a world of change in

A few years ago, I found out about the concept of Bucket Filling and fell in love. It was the perfect way to highlight how being kind or cruel has its effects. The concreteness of the idea really hit home with the kids and I'm excited to say that now our entire school reads Have You Filled a Bucket the first month we go back. Yay! If you have not read this book, you MUST! It is incredible :) The basic premise is this: we all walk around with buckets. When someone is nice, it fills our…

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