Super Simple Speech Therapy Worksheet Activities

I’m always looking for super simple and silly activities to use in therapy. I enjoy creative crafts and prefer to use manipulatives or real life activities within my therapy sessions. But some days I need to take data-or I didn’t have any inspirations and I use worksheets that I might typically send home for homework in my therapy sessions. Here is how I try to spice them up:

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My Favorite Speech Therapy Worksheet Games

A-rip-ulation

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This created this activity when I was too lazy to get child size scissors from my cabinet. So I just had them rip up the pictures I made copies of.

Kids LOVE to rip things. I cut the pictures into strips and then had my clients rip them in half. It was pretty fun. Of course, there is the danger that they overgeneralize to ripping everything. When you bring out your “real” cards they may think you want them to rip those also.

Celebrity Worksheets

For this activity, you can pull any resource or worksheet book off of your shelf and turn to a page that is working on the goals you have chosen. Celebrity worksheets tends to work best on syntax, wh-questions and problem solving tasks. Then you just replace the names of the people in the sentences with the kid friendly celebrities, cartoon characters or superheroes.

Here’s an example. I grabbed where stimulus from one of Linguisystem’s HELP books. Here’s how I changed them:

Where does Chase keep his eggs?
Where can Superman find a doctor?
Where would Harry Styles find an airplane?

It’s pretty motivating for the kids.

Superhero Kid Interview

Superhero Interview is a similar activity, except I call it “Who wants to be a superhero” or just “Superhero Interview.” If you have the energy to get up, it might be fun to try with an Echo mike. If not, a pen or just your hand works too. For this one, you just preface any question with “Okay Super Mikey, this question is to save Nintendo Games.” or even just “Super Mike, answer this question to save the world.”

Worksheet Arcade

Using computer game language can be another way to keep your clients engaged in a worksheet activity. Instead of asking your students or clients to point to a picture, ask them to click on it. After they’ve answered a certain number of questions they can “level up” or reach the “final round.”

Darth Vader Voice

Just read all of your stimuli using your best Darth Vader voice, Pink Sheep or any other silly voice.

Dramatic Noises

Use any speech material book or card. In between questions, make the dramatic dun-dun-DUN sound. It doesn’t really make sense-but it’s silly enough that the kids didn’t seem to care. Really any noise after saying an articulation card is motivating. Just so you know-I’ve used this with my middle schoolers too. They might roll their eyes-but secretly they like it.

Bubble Wrap worksheet

Try placing a worksheet under a piece of bubble wrap. This works particularly well when your student has to answer a question. You can ask them to pop the bubble over the correct answer. I’ve also just let the student pop the bubbles as they are answering questions on a worksheet.

Sandbox/Lightbox worksheets

Have you ever used a lightbox in speech therapy? Place the worksheet you are using on top of the lightbox and then place a shallow bin containing colored sand on top of it. This is a fun way to work on receptive identification. If you put an articulation picture worksheet underneath it, you can have them name different pictures that they see as they move the sand.

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Question: What do you do to spice up your worksheets?

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