How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids

I start every school year with the Fill a Bucket books. The concept forms a structure for classroom management. Students earn bucket filler slips. These are counted at the end of each week and tallied on a paper bucket (I found these materials on Teachers Pay Teachers). When there are 100 tallies, students earn a pre-determined classroom award. They love it, and parents love reading the slips when students take them home at the end of the week.

My son with Autism loves the Bucket Filling series, and this book is pretty much the 'introduction' to the concept. It takes the generally abstract concepts of kindness and 'treating others as you'd like to be treated' and provides an extremely tangible, relatable metaphor. Because my son has had to (and still does have to) work hard to learn and understand basic social interaction - and is always expanding his understanding of empathy and social cues - the Bucket Filling series gives him an opportunity, through story telling, to actually, literally 'see' how treating other people impacts that person's feelings and moods.This book is his favorite of the series. I think it acts very well as a 'social story,' because it walks a little boy through the first day that he notices the buckets. The story takes him through a full day at school, and it shares several realistic situations in which kids and adults fill one-another's buckets (are kind to one another), and situations in which someone dips from another person's bucket (is mean to someone). It also perfectly exemplifies how being kind to another person fills that person's bucket (makes them happy), but also fills your OWN bucket (makes you feel good); and, similarly, how dipping in to another person's bucket (being mean to them) also dips from your own bucket (makes you feel bad/cranky/upset), too.

This book is a great children’s book to read at the elementary level. The book as a great message for the students. I enjoy reading this book to my students in my classroom.

Having two boys at home they say some pretty out of the normal things; well my oldest came home calling his brother a bucketdipper and well my mind went somewhere else and at that point of course I had to research where this word came from ... and this is why I ordered this book. My oldest who is in Kindergarten was read this book in class and was taught that when saying or doing something not so nice thet was "bucket dipping" which hence the term "bucketdipper." Now there are many reasons thet someone can be a bucketdipper the book goes on to show many examples. The example I found extremely useful for children to understand which was when someone is hurt they hurt others; I loved this exampl of a bucketdipper. When someone is a bucketdipper they not only dip into another bucket but they also dip into their own hence not really helping themselves by choosing to be men or have a bad attitude. Now the point is to be a bucket filler the bucket fillers when filling others buckets also fill their own as it feels good to help others feel good. This book allows children to self reflect and think about how to not only earn stickers or checks for their own end reward but how to help others most importantly and feeling good about it as a reward in itself. I highly recommend the collection of these books as it is a great lesson for adults and children alike anyone can benefit from self reflection at any age.

How Full Is Your Bucket? is a wonderful book for young children! My 4-year-old really enjoys the story and its colorful illustrations. It does a great job of teaching empathy and understanding other people's feelings in a way that's relatable for kids. It's an engaging read that opens up great conversations about kindness and positivity. Highly recommend for parents looking to introduce important life lessons to their children!

Times they are changing ….basic, understandable info for grade schoolers for the rest of their lives. Good happenings are a drop into the bucket. Bad things are a drop out. Very short, illustrated, easy read for this age…(parents might find it helpful also 🤗). As a great grandmother I bought 2 books - 1 for each family with kids 7-9 years old… then suggested this be a daily routine discussing daily events over dinner or at bedtime…I’ll see how this works out 🤗😁

This book is just okay. My students did learn about a different reason to treat others with kindness. The problem is that the grandfather did not fully explain the concept to his grandson, so readers unfamiliar with bucket filling do not quickly grasp the point of the story.

This is a great book teaching about your actions and reactions along with consequences and rewards. My 8 year old is constantly asking for this to be his nightly book.