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06Mar2013

Children’s Book on Kindness: “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”

by Sheila @ Pennies of Time in Acts of Kindness, Books on Kindness and Service
Tags: Object Lessons, Teaching Empathy, Teaching Kindness, To Do at Home
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
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Have You Filled a Bucket Today? proved to be a great book!

It takes the idea of how our words and actions affect one another and shows it in a visual way.  When we are kind, it fills everyone’s bucket.  When we are unkind, it takes away from everyone’s bucket.

For my boys, 6 and 4, it took a couple of readings to help them understand this “invisible” bucket.  The second time we read it, we pretended that we were holding buckets, and we gave each other compliments and “showed” how our buckets all became heavier with each compliment given.  I think the process of acting this out really helped them understand what the book is talking about in filling a bucket or being a bucket dipper.

After reading the book, we gave each other compliments and talk about how it made us feel.  We LOVED it!

To have some more fun:  we wrote out compliments and handed out the compliments and thank you notes at the gym.  (We have a stash of our favorite knock-knock jokes on cards that we keep for this activity.)  It is always fun to see how surprised adults are when a child hands them a nice card just for them!

Note: I really think it is great for the boys to thank others that regularly help them (like the fun employees).

 

*This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, Pennies of Time will receive a small commission to help provide funds to keep the website running.

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Sheila brings to life acts of kindness and service projects that kids can do. In her daily adventures of serving with her young boys, she has witnessed the awesome things that happen when kids serve others. She earned her BS in special education from The University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has taught in a variety of settings from a classroom in small town Texas to a psychiatric unit in Chicago.

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