Activity: Grief Puzzle
Art Therapy
Objective:
We all grieve differently and experience different emotions during our grief journey, even if we are grieving the death of the same person. The grief puzzle is a great activity to do with your family or friends to show how grief is a different experience for each person.
Supplies:
- Construction paper or butcher paper
- Scissors
- Colored pencils, markers, or crayons
Instructions:
- Cut a large piece of paper into puzzle pieces (make sure that everyone has at least one puzzle piece).
- Choose which prompt (from below) you would like to represent on your puzzle piece.
- Using pictures, drawings, designs, or words, color your puzzle piece to represent your answer to the prompt.
- When everyone has completed their puzzle piece, assemble the puzzle together.
- Take turns sharing about your puzzle piece and your chosen design.
Puzzle piece prompts:
- If grief was a color…
- If grief was a song…
- If grief was an animal…
- If grief was a flavor…
- If grief was a building…
- If grief was a sound…
