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Halloween Speech and Language Therapy Ideas

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Updated 10/2021  Looking for some fun halloween speech and language activities for your speech therapy sessions?  What is not to love about fall and halloween?  I love decorating my home, both inside and outside for fall and Halloween and I also decorated my therapy room with fall items when I was a brick and mortar SLP.  I’m teaming up with the Frenzied SLP’s to share our favorite fall speech therapy activities and ideas. 
 
You might also like these other blog posts on Halloween speech therapy activities!
 
 

 Plastic pumpkin bucket paired with speech and language cards

Ahhh…the plastic pumpkin candy carrier.  This is a leftover from when my girls were younger and like many things, it made its way from my house to my speech therapy room.  I have found so many uses for this jack o’lantern by teaming it up with any speech and language cards for some easy go-to activities for halloween speech and language. 

For articulation, play “Feed the pumpkin.”  I tell my students that “Jack” only eats items that start with the “k” sound and we say the name of the picture on the card and decide if it starts with our target sound.  If it does, we feed it to Jack as shown on the left.  I always have the corresponding letter visible when I work on articulation to help kiddoes strengthen their sound/letter skills!  A variation (shown on the right) is to feed Jack different letters and sneak some letter identification work in too!  The possibilities are endless-trick or treating for language cards, anyone?

 
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Small Halloween buckets from Target 

What would we do in speech therapy without Target?  These buckets were each one dollar  when I initially bought them but I know the dollar section is more like the $3.00 section these days.  We use them to sort words that start with different sounds, or minimal pairs.  It helps my students hone their listening and auditory discrimination skills while they are practicing their target sounds or working on specific phonological patterns.  Again, I always have the corresponding letters out for my articulation activities!!
 
You can also hide cards or small toys under an overturned bucket, and have students guess which bucket an item is hiding under!
 
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Plastic Acorns

What is it about acorns that our students love?  I bought these at Michaels years ago and I use them for fall decorating at home.  Of course, a small bag of them also made it to my therapy room!  Every time a child says their target sound in a speech therapy session, they earn an acorn.  At the end of the session they get to feed the acorns to my plush squirrel.  It’s a great way to integrate counting activities into your session too.  I tell my students, “when you have 5 acorns, you can feed them to the squirrel.”

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What’s under the gourds?

 
Do you decorate with gourds?  Bring them to school! Hide your target cards under the gourds and give your students directions, such as “What’s under the yellow bumpy gourd?”  They check under it and tell you the name of the card!  I love this activity because I can work in so many language goals too: following directions, spatial concepts, descriptive language, sorting etc.  Gourds are great items to bring in for those speech therapy students that have sensory difficulties too!
 

Rake the cards

Use a toy plastic rake or see what you have in your garage, like I did!  Have kids rake up the cards and tell you the names of them.  You can also attach the cards to real or artificial leaves with a paper clip.  Again, lots of ways to work in your language goals here too!  Work on present tense verbs (raking), pronouns (He/she is raking) and counting (count the number of cards or leaves that you raked up).
 
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My Favorite Halloween Book!

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Who doesn’t love the book, “go away, big green monster!” by Ed Emberly? So great for working on easing children’s fears, vocabulary and so much more. Click on the book for the amazon link (I earn a small commission on eligible purchases). When I left brick and mortar, I bequeathed my copy to my favorite kindergarten teacher! I love thinking about all the children that have enjoyed my copy!!

 I hope you have gotten some halloween speech and language activities that you can incorporate into your speech therapy sessions.  Enjoy the fall weather wherever you are and thanks for stopping by my blog.  Be sure to check out the other SLP’s blog posts in this series too at Fun Fall-themed articulation ideas!

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Comments

  8. miamcd says

    Such great great great interactive ideas!! Rake the articulation cards!! I love it- here in our area there isn't much raking going on so some of my kids don't even know what that MEANS, and I'm a sucker for little Target dollar spot cans! Thanks for the inspiration!

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