Bucket Filling Fun!

                                                        

A person can be a bucket filler or a bucket dipper. The way to fill a bucket is to be kind to someone. A smile is an excellent way to fill a bucket and it makes you happy. On the other hand, a bully-type person can dip into your bucket and then you feel sad-but he feels sad too. He not only dipped into your bucket, but emptied his as well. What a concept we can teach children!

Have You Filled a Bucket Today? is a book with a new twist on the Golden Rule. It is a book that explains to children that we all carry an invisible bucket in which we keep our feelings about ourselves. When our buckets are full, we are happy; when they are empty, we are sad. It's important to know that we can fill our own bucket and so can others. We can also dip into it.

I read Have You Filled a Bucket Today? last week. We learned what it was like to be a bucket filler or a bucket dipper.  On Wednesday and Thursday, the kids got to pick a name out of a bucket and try to keep the name a secret.  Then sometime before we had Religion class in the afternoon, each child was to try to hep fill his/her special person's bucket.  Then at Religion time each child drew a picture for his/her special person.  The smiles were so precious when they recived the picture made especially for them.