Why create shrines?
Shrines offer opportunities for their creators to reflect on people or pets that have passed from their lives but have left an impression. Creating a shrine can be cathartic and allow grievers the experience of remembering the best about the people or pets who are no longer living. The creation of a shrine also establishes a permanent place or object with which to return to remember a friend, relative, or pet. For students, creating shrines is an opportunity to demonstrate learning in an artistic and imaginative visual and tactile mode, something they may not get to do often, especially as they get older and class assignments focus more on writing and technical skills. Arranging images and objects in a shrine in an excellent opportunity to develop visual-spatial and kinesthetic skills, areas of the multiple intelligences that are often difficult to reach in standard classroom activities. Creating shrines also helps develop students ability to think in more abstractly and symbolically,
