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By December, you are burnt out from all the meetings and paperwork, so lesson planning is the last thing you want to do. But it is a festive time of year when many kids celebrate Christmas. I wanted to share simple, low-prep activities that still support meaningful articulation and language practice. Planning Christmas crafts for speech therapy can be a low-cost, engaging lesson plan that covers mixed groups easily.
Whether you need something for a whole-group lesson, a small-group session, or individual speech therapy sessions, these Christmas speech therapy activities will help you stay organized and keep students motivated all month long.
Each Christmas speech therapy craft that I share can be used to target a wide range of goals, such as following directions, sequencing, describing, articulation and phonology, vocabulary, and grammar. Plus, I will show you how to make these crafts work for preschool and elementary ages!
SLPs don’t have much extra prep time, so an effective Christmas craft for speech therapy needs to be low-prep and easy to complete within a session. While an occasional, more detailed craft can be engaging, most December sessions run more smoothly when the activity can be completed in a reasonable amount of time. If you know cutting or assembling will slow things down, prepping parts of the craft ahead of time can make a big difference.
The best Christmas speech therapy crafts also serve more than one purpose. When the finished craft can be used as a therapy tool or sent home as speech homework, you get more value out of the activity.
For example, a Christmas tree speech therapy craft can easily become more than a one-time activity. Once students have finished assembling the craft, it can be used as a therapy tool to practice articulation targets, verbs, and vocabulary through repeated trials. The completed Christmas tree also makes a festive speech therapy bulletin board, which helps reinforce skills visually throughout the month. Additionally, sending the craft home allows students to practice their speech or language targets again as part of speech homework, extending learning beyond the therapy room.
Before starting any speech therapy craft, think about how you can naturally embed multiple speech and language goals into the activity. With a paper plate snowman craft, students can practice following directions, adding body parts, and using spatial concepts while assembling the craft. Once finished, students can glue or write their articulation targets or language goals on the back of the craft. The snowman craft can also be paired with a Christmas or winter-themed book to support story retell, sequencing, and sentence structure, making it a versatile tool for December speech therapy sessions.
When targeting language goals with Christmas crafts for speech therapy, many language skills are already embedded in the activity. As the SLP, you must be strategic about how you will target goals. For example, if you have students with prepositional and spatial-concept goals, making a craft is an effective activity for developing those skills. You must place items in the middle, at the bottom, or above parts of the craft. Additionally, I use the completed task as a therapy prop to work on spatial concepts with their craft. The Santa puppet craft is a perfect example of having children use their Santa to act out different spatial concepts (e.g., Santa above the chair, under the table, next to the board).
A lot of times, you can bring a Christmas book or character to life by pairing it with a fun, low-prep craft. This allows students to interact with concepts from the book in a hands-on activity.
Here are some more goals you can target with Christmas crafts:
Planning Christmas crafts for speech therapy need not feel overwhelming. With the right activities, crafts can be purposeful, low-prep, and flexible enough to target articulation and language goals across mixed groups. By choosing crafts that double as therapy tools, bulletin board displays, or speech homework, you can maximize your therapy time while keeping students motivated during busy December sessions.
If you’re looking to extend your planning beyond Christmas week, you may also enjoy these winter speech therapy ideas. I’ve shared a variety of winter speech and language activities that work well throughout January and February, along with themed snowman speech therapy activities that pair perfectly with books, crafts, and play-based routines. And if your students love holiday characters, you can also check out my gingerbread speech therapy activities, which are great for targeting sequencing, story retell, and describing skills.
Whether you’re planning for December, winter themes, or seasonal carryover activities, having a few go-to crafts and lesson ideas can make speech therapy sessions more effective—and more fun—for both you and your students.
Now that you know how to use Christmas crafts to target articulation and language goals, let’s look at specific Christmas crafts for speech therapy that are easy to prep and effective for mixed groups.
Below are Christmas crafts for speech therapy that are easy to prep, flexible for mixed groups, and designed to support both articulation and language goals.
A low-prep Christmas tree craft that works for both articulation and language goals. Simply print the templates you need and adapt the activity for your students.
How to use it in speech therapy:
Targets: articulation, language, following directions, vocabulary
This festive Christmas lights freebie from The Speech Bubble SLP targets synonyms and helps students understand how words can change slightly in meaning. It’s a great visual to use in sessions or send home for extra practice.
How to use it in speech therapy:
Targets: vocabulary, semantics, articulation (adapted)
A low-prep reindeer craft with visual supports that works well for mixed speech therapy groups in December. Use this visual supports to help students with following the steps to make the craft.
How to use it:
Books to pair with this craft: The Littlest Reindeer by Brandi Dougherty, How to Catch a Reindeer by Adam Wallace, The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett, or The Grumpy Reindeer by DK.
This simple Christmas chain craft is suitable for mixed speech therapy groups and requires minimal preparation.
This festive 12 Days of Articulation freebie from Speech Room News is a great way to get students excited about practicing speech sounds. To make it work for language goals, I created a quick visual to target adjectives and describing words—perfect for mixed groups and easy planning.
👉 Grab my adjective visual here! Need picture words to do with this Christmas chain craft?
Targets: articulation and language
I love this festive Christmas wreath craft idea from Crazy Speech World because it’s low-prep, visually engaging, and perfect for December speech therapy sessions. While students decorate their wreath, you can target articulation, vocabulary, and descriptive language—all with a holiday favorite activity.
How to use it in speech therapy:
Targets: articulation & phonology, vocabulary, describing, sequencing, WH-questions
This low-prep Christmas stocking craft is perfect for mixed speech therapy groups and push-in lessons. Students decorate their stockings while practicing articulation, vocabulary, and sequencing skills.
How to use it in therapy:
Targets: vocabulary, following directions, colors, requesting, AAC Core words
Need a Christmas craft for speech therapy that kids can hang on their tree at home? Use these Christmas ornament craft to work on articulation and language goals. Download the free winter vocabulary templates here!
Targets: articulation and language
This Christmas tree craft is a low-prep and perfect for your whole class lessons with preschool and early elementary. You can save time prepping for your Christmas speech therapy lesson, by using the visual supports to pair with the craft in my TPT store.
How to use it in speech therapy:
Targets: articulation & phonology, vocabulary, describing, sequencing, WH-questions
Planning Christmas crafts for speech therapy doesn’t have to mean extra prep or losing valuable therapy time. With a few low-prep, flexible craft ideas, you can easily target articulation, language, and mixed-group goals while keeping students engaged during busy December sessions. When crafts double as therapy tools, bulletin board displays, or speech homework, they become meaningful activities that support learning beyond the session.
Whether you’re working with preschoolers or elementary students, having go-to Christmas speech therapy crafts can help you feel more confident and organized throughout the month. I hope these ideas give you inspiration to plan stress-free December sessions that still provide effective, goal-driven practice.
If you’re looking for even more seasonal ideas, be sure to check out my winter speech and language crafts, snowman speech therapy activities, and gingerbread speech therapy activities to keep your therapy plans fresh all season long.
