All the Spring Speech Therapy Activities You Need!

If you’re looking for spring speech therapy activities, you’ve come to the right place!

My Spring Speech Therapy Lesson Plans product was designed to be everything you need for speech therapy! This theme based packet includes fun books, crafts, and activities to target all of your speech and language goals!

Activities for Speech Therapy

Sometimes it seems like speech therapy for the younger crowd is an endless balance between making it fun and making it functional!

SLPs love picture books because you can’t go wrong! A good book is engaging, but also everything our kids need to be working on to succeed in the school environment.

Some of our kids (especially those preschoolers) struggle to stay still for book. They might need some hands-on or movement activities. And while books provide an excellent structure, sometimes more naturalistic activities can really make the difference generalizing skills to all areas. And some targets are addressed better in one context than another.

Therapy can be its most successful when we plan a few activities to engage all of our students!

When I created my Spring Speech and Language Therapy Lesson Plans product, I settled on my winning formula for a speech therapy lesson plan.

Each themed lesson plan includes:

2 books (most are readily found at local libraries!)
2 crafts that use everyday materials
2 activities

I include all of that for 12 themes! It’s everything you need for the last third of your school year! You’ll be sure to target all of your kids’ goals in a fun way.

To run these sessions, I usually read the book and discuss any themes, vocabulary, WH questions, and comprehension questions first. Then we do an activity. Finally, we make the craft. This can take up to 3 sessions! For kids with limited attention, I might work on the craft and the activity in the same session, switching back and forth to keep things fresh.

Since I include two of everything for each theme, I usually will use one book, craft, and activity in therapy, and then tell parents about the other one so they can continue the fun at home! I’ve had quite a few therapists say these packets were perfect during distance learning because they were easy enough to send and do at home as well!

Themes for Speech

Don’t you love using themes in your speech therapy sessions?

I’ve talked about using themes for speech therapy before. It’s one of my favorite ways to keep my sessions interesting week after week. We can work on the same goals and targets, with similar supports, when we use themes.

Spring can be a theme all by itself, but there are lots of themes we can use within the season too!

My Spring Speech and Language Lesson Plans product includes some of my favorite spring themes, including:

Fairytales
Rain (Spring Weather)
St. Patrick’s Day
Baseball
Birds
Pond life (frogs/fish)
Flowers
Earth Day
Bees
Bugs and Butterflies
Kites and Wind
Rainforest animals

If you’re looking for spring speech therapy activities that include materials for older kids, you might want to check out these Language Therapy Units:

Most of those language therapy units really would be great any time of year, but these packets fit into the spring theme pretty well!

Spring Language

All of my seasonal lesson plans also include mini language cards with verbs, adjectives, categories, core vocabulary, community helpers, pronouns, and “I see a…” sentence strips for targeting any language goal.

My Lesson Plans for Spring includes lots of crafts and activities that can be completed using the mini language cards!

Plus, these kinds of activities lead themselves to lots of opportunities to practice that spring language. In the spring packet, your kids will have the opportunity to practice their spring language through tons of activities, like:

Describing a dragon
Retell a story and sequencing with printable Jack and the Beanstalk characters
Use verbs as you are playing with fairy dough
Describe functions of craft and activity materials
Request science project materials
Practice spring vocabulary words
Follow directions while making crafts or playing a puddle jumping movement game
Use prepositions while talking about a rainy science experiment
Scavenger hunt while practicing categories
Compare and contrast fish puppets in the group
Talk about functions of craft materials
Use sentence starters to talk about fish and increase MLU
Talk about synonyms/antonyms in a windy science experiment
Ask and answer wh- questions while rolling a rainforest animal dice
And so much more!

Printable Picture cards for Speech therapy

Printable picture cards are the perfect tool for speech therapy! It’s a cheap and easy way to include unlimited picture supports for all of our activities!

My Lesson Plans for Spring include mini articulation and language cards with suggestions on how to incorporate them into all of your spring speech therapy activities.

I usually print all of the mini articulation cards I plan to use for the next couple of months on a variety of colors of construction paper as well as white. Then I use the articulation cards in my crafts and activities.

One thing I love to do is incorporate movement whenever possible, such as hiding the cards they need for the craft/activity around the room.

I also like to use the cards as part of the craft. For example, I might print artic cards on green construction paper and glue them onto the beanstalk craft. Best of all, my kids can take those crafts home with them and practice their speech sounds!

Spring theme preschool worksheets (and older students too!)

If you’re looking for spring themed worksheets for preschools through 7th grade, you might also enjoy my spring themed speech and language packet as well. You can find it on TpT too! The big difference between this packet and my lesson plans is that the packet contains more open-ended spring speech therapy activities like bingo, barrier games, do-a-dot, board games, conversation cards, roll a word, cut and glue. There are also activities specifically targeting a bunch of goals, like describing, non-fiction comprehension, sentence building, and spring vocabulary for preschool kids.

Happy Spring!