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Grief
Activity Ideas
- Read stories that has death or grief as a theme.
For book ideas, please see the bibliography in this packet. After reading
a book discuss it. Point out lessons in the book. Create activities based
on these lessons.
- Memory box: Find a box that can be decorated by the child. Encourage
the child to decorate the box in ways that remind them of the person
who died. Provide stickers, markers, and other art supplies. Children
can place items that remind them of the person who died inside.
- Big Energy Activities: Punching bag, play dough, finger paint, and
other physical activities. Children often express their feelings
through anger, yelling, hitting, and crying for not apparent reason.
It is important for them to learn appropriate ways to express these
big feelings.
- Messages: As a family, write or draw messages that you would like
the person who died to get. Once they are finished, tie a string
though the paper and attach it to a tree. Observe that the wind can
take the messages where they need to go.
- Inside/outside feelings: Discuss how sometimes
the way we feel is very different than the way we act. Using a paper
plate, draw the
way you feel on the inside on one side and the way you act on the
other side. Discuss differences and similarities.
Text provided by:
Caring Connections
A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program
University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Caring Connections is sponsored in part by
The Ben B. and Iris M. Margolis
Foundation.
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