Task 1 of the International Trick Dog Competition 2024 is all about bucket tricks

Here are 60+ ideas of tricks you can do with a bucket (or buckets) to get your creative juices flowing:

Please remember you can use anything else vaguely resembling a bucket: a flower pot, pan, basket, cups and even dog puddling pool!

1 Get into the bucket

2. Tidy the toys in the bucket

3. Paws up on upturned bucket

4 paws up

5. Turn them upside down and use as a cones to go around

6. Stack them as a stacking cups

7. Take objects out of the bucket

8 Put objects into the bucket

9 Hold the bucket

10 Carry the bucket

11 Perform other tricks while carrying the bucket

12. 2 paws up and elephant trick

13. Reverse around a bucket

14. Hind paws up on a bucket

15. Roll a ball into a bucket on it's side

16. Use the bucket as Basketball hoop

17. 2 paws up and say prayers

18. Put poles on the top and use as jumps, cavaletti or an obstacle course

19. Jump over a bucket

20. Weave a row of buckets

21. Bucket as a drum

22. Blow bubbles

23. Nose touch the bucket

24. Topple over

25. Roll the bucket on its side with nose or paws

26. Fake "pee" into a bucket

27. Help with household chores using the bucket

28. Paws touch the bucket

29. Jump over a row of buckets

30. Bring a drink can from a chiller bucket

31. Hold an empty bucket, lift the head up and pretend drink from it

32. Stack rings on the top of upside-down bucket

33. Step from one upside down bucket to another

34. Nose work tricks with buckets- hide a treat or an object in upside-down bucket and ask the dog to find it

35. Search for a hidden bucket

36. Hide behind a bucket

37. Put head inside a bucket

38. Wear a bucket (keep it safe and fun for the dog)

39. Sit on the top of a bucket

40 Spin on the top of a bucket

41. Sit pretty on the top of a solid stable bucket

42. Dig soil in a bucket or a pot

43. Use the bucket as a mark for distance work

44. Balance the bucket on the bum while doing a bow

45. Balance a small and stable cup or a bucket on head

46. Wait for a release cue to eat from the bucket

47. Paint on a bucket or a pot with a brush or leave your paint paw prints to decorate a bucket or a pot

48. Hide inside a large basket

49. Push a bucket or a basket

50 Pull a bucket or a basket

51. Hand the bucket onto something

52. Take the hanging bucket off something

53. Fill the bucket with water by either bringing a hosepipe to it or holding it by a tap

54. Search for treats in a bucket filled with balls of crumpled paper

55. Catch something thrown and put into a bucket

56. Identify a bucket touched by a handler or a member of the household

57. Bring a present or a message in a bucket to someone

58. Go around a bucket together with a handler at heelwork position.

59. Wrap a rope around a bucket by holding the rope in the mouth and going around a bucket

60. Put coins or tennis balls into a bucket

61. Figure of 8 weave around a pair of buckets or pots

For those who prefer to do trick without props, you can hold the bucket in your hand while performing other tricks with your dog!

The link to Task 1 of the International Trick Dog Competition is here: https://www.dogtalentassociation.com/itdc2024

Enjoy!