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You either love or hate crafts as an SLP. While I am not a fan of messy crafts that involve glitter and expensive craft supplies, I am down to do crafts that help my students stay engaged. And, if you can use the craft as a functional therapy tool, it’s a go for me! Try these easy summer speech therapy crafts for your mixed groups, private clients, or during ESY. Speech therapy crafts pair great with books, so grab a fun summer-themed book to complete your lesson! The summer speech therapy crafts in this blog post require minimal supplies that you can afford or find in your school supply room.
Here are the things you will need (Amazon affiliate links included for your convenience):
Some of the crafts featured in this blog post are from the summer speech therapy crafts in my TPT store and the Themed Therapy SLP membership.
If you are doing a beach theme, make a kid buried in the sand craft! You will have one craft template and can print targets for your speech or language goals. Every student does one craft in your therapy sessions but has targets for practicing their goals.
Easy planning for you and keeps students engaged! And they can take it home for home practice.
Another fun mixed group beach speech therapy craft is the 3D Sandcastle articulation and language crafts. They are built to do in your sessions, and then have homework attached to the craft.
There are LOTS of fun low prep ocean animal crafts that you can pair with your favorite books. This craft is fun because you can glue targets on the inside of the craft and then use it to work on basic concepts and with your pretend play activities. I pair ocean books with some more fun crafts and give you tips how to use them! On Instagram, I show you how to use a jellyfish craft as a therapy prop, too. We provide two visual crafts in the Themed Therapy SLP membership for an ocean theme that you can access in May on the monthly plan or anytime with the annual membership.
Making a sun with a paper plate or just with construction paper is perfect for summer because it’s hot outside! You can have students glue or write words on the sun rays or on the back of the paper plate. If you are working on summer weather concepts, you can write activities you can do when it is hot outside. Or, write down things that are hot and cold!
For more ideas for how to use this sun craft, check out the REEL on Instagram.
You can also make a lemonade craft or easy tissue paper or paint crafts for a summer 4th of July BBQ. Check out the pictures below. The lemonade craft is part of the summer crafts for speech therapy resources. And, the watermelon and fireworks low prep crafts are from the summer push-in lesson plan guides.
LOTS of kids are eating s’mores over the summer whether they are camping or having backyard firepit hangouts. This is an easy craft to do and pairs well with a camping theme! Need this template? It’s part of the summer craft set and we provide this template with camping-themed vocabulary in the Themed Therapy SLP membership.
Bring some festive flair to your sessions with 4th of July speech therapy crafts! These patriotic-themed crafts are a great way to target articulation and language goals while celebrating the summer holiday.
If you’re looking for a ready-to-go resource, check out my 3D Fireworks Speech Therapy Craft. Students can decorate their fireworks with speech words or language concepts, then fold and glue them into a colorful 3D display. This craft is perfect for mixed groups and helps you get high repetitions in a meaningful way. Grab it here on TPT.
For more 4th of July speech therapy activities, listen to my podcast episode with creative ideas using books, games, and crafts: Episode: 4th of July Speech Therapy Activities
You can also add simple patriotic crafts that support fine motor skills and language modeling:
Patriotic Name Craft: Have students build their names while practicing sound targets or answering WH-questions.
Patriotic Shooting Star Craft: Students can write or glue their speech/language targets on the star’s paper strips, then retell what each word means or use it in a sentence.
These summer crafts for speech therapy are low-prep and high-impact—just what you need during the busy ESY months!
Beach Day by Karen Roosa has fantastic pictures! After reading this book, I had my students create a beach theme, and then they got to sprinkle natural sand on their craft with Elmer’s glue. You can read about it HERE!!
A Camping Spree With Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen is a great little story about camping. You can read about some of my camping-themed therapy ideas that I did last year.
When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore is a fabulous beach-themed book! You could create a sandcastle or dragon craft with this book!
Alex and The Amazing Lemonade Stand by Liz & Jay Scott look like a fun read! I just ordered it. It would go perfectly with my Ice Cold Lemonade Craftivity.
What summer speech therapy crafts do you love to use for the summer season? If you have one that is easy to prep and engages your students, share it in the comments! As always, tag me on social media @thedabblingspeechie if you use one of these crafts so I can see what you are up to in your speech therapy room.
