Working with preschool-aged students who need some engaging leaves preschool activities?
Well, you came to the right blog post!
When working with the younger crew, we want to find ways to spark their curiosity, and most often, that means ditching the traditional drill tasks and pulling out hands-on activities.
DIY Falling Leaves Hands-On Activity
To work on labeling the colors of the trees and the essential concept word pair on and off, make this DIY falling leaves hands-on activity. Amazon affiliate links are provided for your convenience.
You need the following supplies:
Colored cardstock
Jumbo popsicle sticks
Velcro dots
Fall colored pom pom balls
Pincher tool (optional)
Styrofoam square (get from packaging, or you can order some here.)
Your students can work on putting leaves on and taking them off and target the verbs put, fall, drop, pick, and gather. Naturally, use this to get high trials by having your students practice their speech targets for each pom pom ball they put on or take off the tree.
How would you use this DIY leaves activity? Share in the comments of the blog post.
Leaves Preschool Activities for Pretend Play
You can create a dramatic play activity for kids to pretend to pick up fallen leaves off the ground. Buy fake leaves, a basket or container, and a plastic rake. Your students can work on sequencing the steps for raking the leaves, targeted verbs, vocabulary, and answering “who” questions. For example, you can have students take turns raking leaves and ask, “Who has the rake?”
Here is a list of other variations to do with the leaf raking activity:
- Have a race to see how long it takes to rake the leaves
- Throw some leaves in the air and see how many they can catch with a basket. The number of leaves is the number of words the child has to practice.
- Teach students vocabulary such as collect, toss, pile, pick, dump, fall, gather, carry, drag, scoop
- Add painter’s tape or a blanket on the ground. Have your students try to rake the leaves onto the blanket. When all the leaves are on the blanket, they can try to fold the blanket and then dump the leaves into a container. You can problem solve if leaves fall out or if the blanket is too big, how to ask for help.
Movement Activity With Leaves
Cut up colored construction paper into the form of a leaf. You can put different numbers, directions, verbs, or any speech or language target. Hide the leaves around your room. Tell your students that leaves have fallen off the tree around your room. Carry a container while students find the leaves. You can work on basic concept clues, and then when they see the leaf, they can practice their speech sound the number on the leaf.
What Leaves Preschool Activities Do You Use With Your Students?
If you have any fun leaves preschool activities you do in your speech therapy sessions, share them in the comments. If you need more fall-themed therapy ideas, check out these blog posts:
Preschool Leaf Lesson Plan for Co-Teaching
Engaging Fall Themed Speech and Language Activities