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Planning for speech sessions in the spring? These Easter speech therapy activities will keep your students engaged while helping you target a variety of speech and language goals. Whether you’re looking for hands-on games, themed visuals, or seasonal book companions, this post is packed with Easter speech ideas that are low prep and easy to adapt for small groups or push-in lessons. From Easter speech therapy crafts to story-based activities, you’ll find fun and functional ways to bring this holiday theme into your sessions for preschool through upper elementary.
Books are a great way to bring Easter speech therapy activities to life while targeting multiple language goals. Use Easter stories to work on sequencing, vocabulary, wh-questions, describing, and story retell. Pair them with themed props, crafts, or visuals to boost engagement and make your sessions more interactive.
1. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick! by Lucille Colandro
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Sensory bins are a powerful tool for engaging students in Easter speech therapy activities. They’re low-prep, adaptable for mixed groups, and perfect for targeting a variety of goals like describing, categorizing, following directions, and articulation. One favorite Easter speech therapy idea is using a themed sensory bin filled with plastic grass, mini eggs, and small Easter trinkets or toys. Students can pull items from the bin to practice speech sounds, answer wh-questions, or use complete sentences.
➡️ Check out this Easter sensory bin idea for more inspiration on how to build and use one in your sessions.
Plastic Easter eggs are a must-have therapy material in the spring. They’re fun, motivating, and super versatile for Easter speech therapy activities. You can hide mini objects, task cards, or visuals inside the eggs to target articulation, grammar, vocabulary, and more. This post from Panda Speech shares tons of Easter speech therapy ideas for using eggs in therapy, including matching games, carrier phrases, and movement breaks.
➡️ Explore how to use Easter eggs in speech therapy from Panda Speech.
You can also try this fun Easter speech therapy activity where students crack open eggs to find questions or actions. It’s a playful way to incorporate language targets while keeping students engaged.
If you’re juggling a busy caseload and need something ready to go, this Easter Speech Therapy Language Resource has everything you need to cover grammar and vocabulary skills with a spring theme. These Easter speech therapy activities include visuals and low-prep materials to work on:
Verbs and noun functions
WH-questions
Compare and contrast
Third person singular
Plurals and describing by attributes
It’s an ideal resource for preschool and elementary students, especially in mixed groups. Whether you’re working on expanding MLU or targeting morphology, you’ll find flexible Easter speech therapy ideas to fit your students’ goals.
Looking to add a hands-on, creative option to your sessions? This 3D Easter Speech Therapy Craft is a fun way to practice articulation and language targets while making a colorful Easter egg display. Students color and cut out speech targets, then assemble a pop-up-style egg that they can take home.
This craft can be used to:
It’s one of those Easter speech therapy activities that feels like play but packs in a ton of practice. Plus, it’s great for bulletin boards or sending home for carryover.
Looking for fun and functional ways to keep students engaged? These Easter speech therapy activities double as games and can be used to target articulation, vocabulary, sentence structure, and social language goals. Whether you’re playing in small groups or using the game as a reinforcer, these Easter speech ideas will bring energy to your sessions.
🎲 Easter Games to Try in Speech Therapy:
Jumping Jack by Goliath – Use with any Easter bunny book or pair it with Too Many Carrots by Katy Hudson. Students pull carrots while practicing target words, answering WH-questions, or describing what they see.
Bunny Brunch by Hand2Mind – Great for sorting and categorizing vocabulary. Work on color words, food items, or following directions.
Funny Bunny by Ravensburger – Perfect for describing, predicting, and using spatial concepts. Students can make a sentence before moving their bunny forward.
Pop Pop Bunny Hop by Educational Insights – Work on verbs and sentence expansion each time a bunny pops up. Kids can describe the bunny’s actions or where it landed.
Hoppy Floppy’s Happy Hunting Game – A fun way to work on prepositions, turn-taking, and WH-questions while collecting colorful eggs.
These games are a great way to build in movement, reinforce spring vocabulary, and make Easter speech therapy fun for your students.
Incorporating songs and movement breaks into your sessions is a great way to help students regulate their bodies while reinforcing language concepts through rhythm, repetition, and fun. These Easter speech therapy activities can be used as quick transitions, brain breaks, or ways to embed vocabulary and concepts into music.
🎵 Easter Songs and Movement Break Ideas:
These songs pair well with your favorite Easter books or games and offer another layer of engagement during Easter speech therapy sessions.
Whether you’re reading a spring book, cracking open plastic eggs, or dancing to the Bunny Hop, there are so many creative ways to bring Easter speech therapy activities to life. With the ideas shared in this post, you’ll have a variety of Easter speech therapy tools ready to target your students’ goals while keeping sessions festive and fun. From themed books and sensory bins to movement songs and printable crafts, these Easter speech ideas will help you stay organized and inspired this season.
