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When it comes to childhood memories, I remember spending many afternoons playing with bubbles. There’s just something magical about bubbles that kids enjoy. Bubbles aren’t just a classic toy—they’re also a powerful tool for speech therapists. From working on joint attention to targeting specific speech sounds, there are so many fun and effective bubbles speech therapy ideas to try. Whether you’re planning spring or summer sessions, incorporating speech therapy activities using bubbles can be both engaging and effective for your students.
Bubbles are also near to my heart because they are affordable for SLPs on a budget! This post is filled with all the ways you can utilize play-based speech therapy ideas using bubbles.
When looking for bubble speech therapy supplies ,consider a couple of things (Amazon affiliate links are included):
Will you use them in your room?
Take them outside?
Want something that has no spill or easy-to-produce bubbles?
On a budget and need something cheap?
If you are OK with pulling out the wand from a bubble container, buy them on Amazon or Target. If you want no-spill containers, then here are mini ones that hold two ounces of bubbles. Or, you can get a bigger container from Fubbles that allows you to have multiple wands in the container.
If you are the adventurous DIY SLP, then here is a recipe for how to make GIANT bubbles. Here is another recipe for homemade bubbles. Did you know that you can also make DIY wands with pipe cleaners?
It is super easy, and it’s an affordable way to have extra wands on hand for your mixed groups.
One way to make bubble speech therapy lesson plans easier is to use a bubble machine and a big container of bubble solution.
If you need visual conversation scripts to help show your students how to have a conversation while playing with bubbles, these are pre-made, editable bubble conversation scripts. There are three different levels and you can switch out the images to fit your student’s AAC device. Conversation scripts can help students expand communication functions and navigate play-based activities with more ease when they have a script to help them when first building language around the activity.
If you want a bubbles speech therapy unit you can use with preschool and elementary students, we have a mini-themed unit in the Themed Therapy SLP membership. You can access this theme at any time of the school year as an annual membership. If you are a monthly member, the bubbles speech therapy unit is available in July. It is packed with book companions for bubbles books, open-ended games, sentence strips, newsletters, homework, a toy guide that comes with visual supports, lesson plans, and more! Let me take lesson planning off your plate so you can focus on serving your students well!
Bubbles can be used to target so many speech and language skills! Listed below are some of my favorite ways to utilize bubbles in speech therapy:
Love doing play-based speech therapy and using bubbles all the time? Download this free bubbles speech therapy cheat sheet to help you have targets for articulation and language whenever using bubbles. Use the cheat sheet to help jog your memory of words to model or elicit while playing. Now, you can pull bubbles off the shelf and know you can work on your students’ goals in the moment!
Bubbles can be used as a play-based therapy tool to target all sorts of verbs, language skills, and articulation/phonology. It can be tough to remember all the targets to hit in a mixed group. That’s why I created cheat sheets to help SLPs. You focus on the therapy with the students rather than worrying about the targets you are going to use in the session. Need toy companion cheat sheets? Grab my toy companion cheat sheets designed for Pre-K thru 2nd grade for 45 of your students favorite toys and games.
Bubbles can be used with your upper elementary and middle school/high school students as a STEM project or science experiment. You can have your students make DIY bubble wands. They can predict which “wand” will make the best bubbles with these ideas by Natalie Snyders SLP.
Do you have a fun way to engage your students with bubbles in speech therapy? Share in the comments, tag me on instagram @thedabblingspeechie
