Fill your bucket

Bucket filling is a great way to create a positive and kind classroom community? Learn all about how the tools I use and how I started bucket filling

Since it came out in 2006, McCloud's book Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids has become essential reading in schools and homes across the country. I recently had the privilege of chatting with Carol McCloud and learning more about her bucket-filling

Bucket filling helps kids learn how to be more positive towards others. The following activities help kids learn how to be bucket fillers, which in turn

Transform your classroom this powerful classroom management tool. Bucket filling makes it easy for students to understand the value of kindness and friendship. The engaging bucket filler activities and vibrant kindness bulletin boards make learning about the impact of words and actions fun and meaningful. Explore these inspiring ideas to easily incorporate bucket filling into your daily routine for a positive classroom community!

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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.