What Fills your Bucket? Activity

Encourage children to explore gratitude, happiness and emotional awareness with this simple yet powerful bucket filling activity.
This engaging worksheet invites pupils to reflect on the people, places, activities and experiences that make them feel happy and supported. Children fill the bucket with drawings and words that represent the things that fill their emotional bucket!

What’s included:

• A clear, child-friendly What fills my bucket? worksheet.
• Large bucket template with plenty of space for drawing and writing.
• A scaffolded template with lines to section the bucket.
• Simple prompt to support understanding
• Clean black-and-white design ready for colouring.

Perfect for:

• PSHE lessons
• Children’s Mental Health Week
• Wellbeing afternoons
• ELSA sessions
• Transition activities
• Back-to-school reflection
• Classroom display work

How it can be used:
Children can:

• Draw pictures of the people and things that make them happy
• Label their ideas with single words or short phrases
• Create sections inside the bucket to organise their thoughts
• Use it as a pre-writing task for a gratitude paragraph
• Share and discuss what helps them feel calm, safe and joyful