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"Bucket Filling"
Activity
Summary
Participants will grow in kindness, self-control, resilience and forgiveness – leading to a happier life
Instructional Strategies
1. Tell young children that a bucket represents their mental and emotional self. Buckets are filled with kind words and actions.
2. When their bucket is full, they feel confident, secure, calm, patient and kind.
3. When their bucket is empty, they feel sad, negative, insecure, nervous, and even angry.
4. Having an empty bucket can cause them to express emotions in ways that empty the buckets of other people.
5. Everyone has buckets at all times, and buckets need to be continually filled to nurture kindness all around us.
Participant Tasks
1. A bucket represents your mental and emotional self. Buckets are filled with kind words and actions.
2. When your bucket is full, you feel confident, secure, calm, patient and kind.
3. When your bucket is empty, you feel sad, negative, insecure, nervous, and even angry.
4. Having an empty bucket can cause you to express emotions in ways that empty the buckets of other people.
5. Everyone has buckets at all times; buckets need to be continually filled to nurture kindness all around us.