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Looking for a fun Easter speech therapy activity to get your students up and moving!? If you are TIRED from IEP meetings and writing reports, this Easter activity is just what you need to bring back that FUN spark in speech. I needed an Easter egg speech therapy activity that would cover my category and describing items language goals. So, today I am sharing an engaging Easter speech therapy lesson plan and tips for adapting for speech sounds goals with it too!
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Around March and April, places like Dollar Tree, Target and craft stores begin to carry Easter props and items. This is a great time to stock up on supplies. Here are the following supplies you need for this Easter speech therapy activity:
Mini trinkets from Dinky Doodads on Etsy or Speech and Smile
If you don’t have mini trinkets, you can print pictures of category items to put in the plastic eggs.
Plastic Eggs – Eggs with decorations, plain colorful eggs, bigger sized eggs to work on size, eggs from Dollar Tree
Print the category visual mats and place them on the table to prep for this Easter speech therapy activity. Then, look through your mini-trinkets to find items that match the different category groups. Hide the mini trinkets in the plastic eggs and hide them around your speech room. Let your students search the room for the hidden eggs. Once your students collect all the eggs, you can have them open them up.
As they find trinkets, guide your students to sort them into the correct category group picture. If my students sorted one in the wrong category, we discussed why that item would not belong. We practiced describing the trinkets by attributes and using them in sentences with the visual sentence strips from my website store.
While doing the Easter egg hunt, you can work on prepositions, identifying colors, and working as a group. Use the mini trinkets to create grammatically correct sentences, answer “what” questions, and receptively have students find items based on category groups and attribute features.
You can allow students to hide the Easter eggs around the room and give you preposition clues for where to find them.
If you are needing some Easter speech therapy activities to cover a variety of language goals, grab this set! You can follow an Easter theme using Easter vocabulary to work on the following language skills:
Have a fun Easter speech therapy craft that incorporates Easter eggs and bunnies! You can have templates for articulation sounds and language targets for verbs, describing, categories, regular past tense verbs and more! This is a fun festive Easter speech activity that you can use with your mixed groups.
My students LOVED this activity! They were all engaged, and the spontaneous language opportunities were high. It was great seeing the staff work alongside the students to encourage language. If you cannot celebrate Easter at your site or school, I encourage you to do this activity with a chicken theme! Tell your students that a wild chicken went loose in your room and LAID EGGS everywhere! You need their help finding all the eggs. For more chicken-themed activities, head to this blog post for a free push-in lesson plan.
For students working on basic concepts, how questions, counting, AAC CORE word for you, or spatial concepts doing this fun egg stacking challenge with Glitter Glue Prek Too would be fun to do. All you need are plastic eggs and playdough. To create more options for fun, after they stack their eggs, you can have them open them up to see what is inside the Easter eggs. Put in mini-trinkets with items that you want to describe or work on their speech sounds.
Add in different amounts of colored pom poms into the eggs and have students guess “how many pom poms” are in the Easter eggs. You can work on colors, answering “how many” and which egg has more or less.
How would you use this Easter activity with your speech therapy caseload? Let me know in the comments. If you use the category visuals, tag me @thedabblingspeechie so I can see what you are up to in your speech room.
