Puppet Plays for Grieving Children
Acting out different
experiences of grief and loss through puppet plays offers a creative
alternative for helping children. This
book includes 16 different puppet plays covering a wide variety of
losses, discussion questions for each play, and instructions for making
stages and puppets.
74 pages, ISBN 0-9652410-4-1, ©2000,
$25.00

What Professionals Are Saying About Puppet Plays for
Grieving Children:
“As a school counselor I am
always looking for creative ways to help children who have experienced a
loss. I have seen firsthand
how Puppet Plays for Grieving Children
uniquely reaches children where they are in the grieving process and
helps to facilitate discussion over the many tough issues that surround
death. It is a necessary
resource for all school counselors!”
Yancey Whitaker, EdS, NCC
Elementary School Counselor
“Puppet Plays for Grieving
Children offers brilliantly creative and imaginative methods for
helping all children, grieving or not, to understand and support each
other through life’s inevitable losses.”
Karen L. Carney, RN, LCSW
Author and Illustrator, Barklay and
Eve Series of books for children
“This collection of puppet
plays is a wonderful resource for hospice programs and for all
counselors who deal with bereaved children. The variety of grief themes
represented and the helpful discussion questions at the end of each
puppet play make this a very user-friendly therapeutic tool. Counselors
and children alike will enjoy and benefit from the experience of using
these imaginative and helpful materials.”
Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, BCE, RPT-S
Distinguished Professor of Social Work
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Editor and Principal Author, Helping Bereaved Children