ABSTRACT
In 1995, a program was started using the expressive arts of puppetry, music, and song to work with elementary school students in loss, grief, and transition. The puppet presentation Good Grief, It’s Sky Blue Pink! Is also used to assist professionals in processing grief due to patient deaths in hospices and pediatric hospices. A painful disclosure that helps other classmates to understand how complicated grief can be for children and adults. Grief feelings are not unusual. They are just not always recognized as grief. Parents often try to shield and protect their children from the pain of grief, not realizing that death has already touched them in many ways. That magical thinking in the grief process can cause guilt, but it can be used to assist with the emotional legacies that enable us to work through the immense changes that death can cause.
