Fill a Bucket: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Young Children Paperback – Picture Book, September 1, 2017

A great concept to teach how kindness and love affects others and ourselves. It is written for children and my grandchildren love it, but it is uplifting to me too every time I read it to them.

Filling other people's buckets brings happiness. Helps children think of others, not just themselves. Helps them in learning how to give unselfishly.

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.

A 4 year old got the message!!!!! After reading, he asked his mother if she was getting her bucket filled when taking a walk with him. He explained that he was getting his filled!!!!! --- He thoroughly got the message!!!!! A book definitely worth reading for all!!!!!

I love the premise behind these books. I've purchased several for each person in my household. My husband was gifted the original, "How Full is Your Bucket?". My children own this one, "Fill a Bucket", "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?", and for my older child, "Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness". The pictures in this one are cute, and show people from all kinds of diverse backgrounds. So it is appropriate for all. LOVE IT!!!

I believed this was the Have You Filled a Bucket Today? book with a new, redesigned cover. I was wrong. This book is geared more toward very young children in more of a home/family setting. I was wanting it for my 2nd grade class. I will have to order the correct version of the book.

One of the best books I read to my Pre-K class. After the first time a read it we use it as a tool to reinforce kindness. All I have to ask a child during an issue with another child is “are you filling their bucket?” and it’s a starting point to resolve that issue. What a wonderful way to help them understand kindness. This is most important lesson I teach all year.

This book is amazing and every family should own it.