Spring Day Speech, Language, & Feeding Therapy
Ideas, Activities, freebies & more for Spring Day therapy for April
Spring is finally here, and the sunshine and warmer weather have been such a refreshing change! Just like we’re enjoying the shift outside, it’s the perfect time to bring a little change into our therapy rooms too. We love swapping in bright, cheerful spring and flower-themed activities that keep kids engaged while targeting articulation, language, fluency, and feeding goals. Here we have a round up of everything you need in your therapy room this spring!
Make sure you scroll to the bottom, too—We tucked a little freebie down there to help make your St. Patrick’s Day themed month a bit easier!
Speech Activities
Hole-y Flowers: One-page 100 trial worksheet for every speech sound, including blends. Each worksheet includes a speech sound in all positions (initial, medial, and final) with opportunities for 100 trials. All you need is the one-page printable and a hole punch. Try with markers, crayons, or dot markers to mix it up.
Spring Flowers I Spy - A fun and engaging way to maximize articulation practice, instructing students to repeat target words up to ten times each time they spot the corresponding picture in the scene.
Spring Spin and Say: These St. Patrick’s Day "Spin and Say" worksheets cover every phoneme and blend in one lucky, no-prep download. Just grab a paperclip and pencil for a quick April-themed game that makes getting high articulation reps a breeze. It's the perfect way to add some festive fun to your sessions without any extra planning!
Spring Day Dot and Say: This huge Spring bundle gives you over 190 pages of "Dot and Say" fun covering every phoneme and blend. Just grab some dot markers or crayons for an easy, no-prep April activity that works perfectly for groups or homework. It’s a total lucky charm for your caseload!
Spring Roll and Say / Build a Flower- Helps students practice all articulation sounds (like P, R, S, K, etc.) through an engaging activity involving dice and cutting/pasting. It includes both color sheets for repeated use and black-and-white, no-prep worksheets that are perfect for individual, small group, or homework assignments.
Spring Flower Cut and Say: This spring flower garden articulation activity targets all speech sounds in the initial and final positions, including blends. These no-prep worksheets allow students to practice sounds while coloring, cutting, and gluing!
Easter Articulation Mats: This spring and Easter articulation activity includes play dough smash mats designed to encourage high speech sound practice. Each mat features a themed play area with eight articulation targets and includes all phonemes in all positions and blends!
Spring Rain Cut and Say: This spring rain articulation activity targets all speech sounds in the initial and final positions, including blends. These no-prep worksheets allow students to practice articulation while coloring, cutting, and gluing!
Spring Mystery Puzzle: This spring mystery puzzle articulation activity targets all phonemes in all word positions. Students can practice 20 target words while cutting and pasting pieces to complete a fun mystery picture, making it an engaging way to build articulation skills in speech therapy.
Language Activities
Spring Idioms - This resource offers two engaging ways to explore love- and St. Patrick’s-themed idioms, starting with memory cards and building up to writing the answers. With leveled practice included, it’s perfect for targeting figurative language with students of all ages.
Spring Following Directions- This ready to go St. Patrick’s Day following directions printable set offers targeted activities for one-step, two-step, positional, and temporal concepts, and includes suggested targets but can also be used for open-ended language goals.
Spring Prepositions:Helps students practice spatial concepts like between, beside, in front, on, under, inside, on top, and in. The resource includes a print-and-cut booklet and a spring picture scene for extra practice, available in both color and black-and-white.
Spring Verb Packet: This spring-themed verb activity includes five worksheets that target different verb forms: present tense, present progressive, regular past tense, irregular past tense, and future tense. The worksheets are great for individual therapy, small groups, or sending home for extra practice.
Spring WH Questions - This WH Questions packet includes a question list, question cards for What, Where, When, Why, and Who questions related to winter topics, a WH question worksheet, and a WH question picture scene. These activities are designed to expand on a student’s WH question skills with new winter vocabulary and concepts.
Spring/Easter Dough Mats: This spring play dough activity includes four open-ended mats for hands-on speech and language practice. It also includes three target sheets for skills like articulation, vocabulary, phonological awareness, WH questions, following directions, and yes/no questions.
Fluency Activities
Spring Stuttering Activities -This St. Patrick’s Day Stuttering Therapy Activity Packet uses a shamrock and rainbow theme to help school-aged and older students practice fluency shaping and modification strategies through varied activities, including leveled sentences, conversation starters, picture descriptions, a barrier game, and a game board.
Feeding Activities
Spring Feeding Activities -Try our St. Patrick’s Day feeding therapy resource featuring activities like the St. Patrick’s Day “new foods” game, bite size charts, feeding spinner, and feeding board game. Kids can explore foods using exploring new foods with my senses, track progress with the like it, love it, want to try it again food trials chart, and stay motivated with favorites like roll, explore, & build a pot of gold and the pot of gold reward chart—all designed to encourage brave bites and positive sensory exploration in a fun, low-pressure way.
Freebies
If you’re loving all of these activities, we have put together a SPRING FREEBIE to share these activities with you! The freebie includes a variety of the activities to try them out and see what you like. It’s free and we hope it inspires you to include themed activities in your sessions! Find your freebie below!
Monthly SLP Therapy materials
The best way to gain access to all of these activities and more is to try out the monthly therapy materials subscription below. You’ll gain access to ALL of our themed therapy materials for each month of the year to target speech, language, feeding, fluency, and more.
You’ll find the huge SPRING FREEBIE below! Check it out and join the monthly subscription model to have full access to all of the activities and more!
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