I have several groups of older students who are working on their /r/, /s/ and /l/ and most sessions we are doing drill and kill types of activities. I am always looking for new activities that will keep them motivated and get me the repetitions that I want! Today for Wise Wallet Wednesday I am going to share an activity you can use with all your Halloween decor trick or treat buckets.
We have been using Papertoss app in therapy as a break in between repetitions and my kids love the challenge. This got the wheels in my head turning and I thought, “Why don’t we bring Papertoss into the speech room Halloween style?”
All you need is a couple of Halloween buckets, and some scrap paper to crumble up to play a real live version of Papertoss! Now, I just need a fan to make it extra tricky! For my game, I “borrowed” my son’s trick or treat bucket, grabbed a haunted house at the dollar store and used a Halloween tin bucket that I snagged at Target dollar spot to use to store pencils during the Halloween season.
Cost for the game= $2
Speech kiddos= excited to practice /r/, /s/, /l/
Over 50 productions for each kid= Happy Speech Therapist
What activities do you use to keep your kids excited about drill and kill in articulation therapy? Happy early Halloween! I hope to share some pictures of my little ones with you this weekend.
I made a game with tongue depressors called BOO!. There are monster stickers on the bottom of the depressors-50 or so and then 10 BOO! sticks. They are in a Halloween container. The child picks out a stick and if there is one that has a sticker, they have to do a word-phrase or sentence. You continue until you get a BOO! and then you stop. I keep track of the amount nad they only have to try and beat themselves on the next try.
I do this for Christmas and call it HUMBUG!
About the dumbest game going but they just LOVE it!
I love this! Thanks for sharing!! Send me some pics. Would love to see it!