Find a few books that employ the technique of personification. Some examples include Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, The Lady and the Tramp by Teddy Slater and The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen.
Explain to the class what personification means. Use words and terms that are age appropriate. For a young class, you can say, "Personification is when anything that's not a person, like an animal, a fruit or a couch, can do something that only people can do, like talk or cook."
Read the book together with the class and point out any time a non-human character does something human. You can say, "Look, the spider is talking to the pig; that's personification because in real life, spiders can't talk."
Choose a different book and ask the class to point out any personification examples that they can find.
Employ the concept of personification in your classroom by giving human qualities to objects around the room. You can tell children, "When I pick the eraser, he says, 'Hey, you're tickling me!'"
Distribute pencils and paper and ask children to choose one object around the classroom which they wish to personify. Have them write a paragraph from that object's point of view of what it is feeling right now.