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Gobble Up Holiday Goodies

Can you believe it’s the LAST WEEK of November?! This Fall has FLOWN by, and I can’t believe it’s almost time for Thanksgiving! Thankfully, I have plenty of goodies for you to gobble up, along with many of the other ladies that are a part of The Frenzied SLPs!

First off, if you have to work a portion of this week leading up to Thanksgiving and still need some turkey-themed activities, here are a couple of ideas for you:

1.  Articulation chef hats

These were so cute on the kids! Our 4 year old classrooms are doing food units and learning about bakers/chefs, different kinds of foods, and different tools you may use to cook and bake.  The chef hats were a perfect tie-in!

If you have short sessions like I do (15 minutes) and want these done in one session, then I’d recommend cutting up artic pictures ahead of time in addition to having the strips already cut and ready to go (If you have one of those industrial paper slicers in your building, that makes it way easy!).  However, you could easily stretch this into two sessions and have them color the pictures while they practice during one session, and then during the next session,  have them glue the pictures on while practicing.

2.  Dough and Dot:  Fall Edition

Fun fact #1:  Little kids love dot markers.  Especially the “extra juicy” ones that give out a lot of paint without a lot of pressure.  I mean, I guess if I were in preschool and could make a lot of mess with very little effort, I’d probably be happy, too.  Fun fact #2:  Little kids don’t ever get tired of playdough. Ever.  EVER!  This packet includes dot marker pages for Fall/Thanksgiving WH questions and basic concepts, and playdough pages for -ing verbs/pronouns/’be’ verbs, vocabulary, and open-ended pages.  I stick the playdough pages into 3 ring page protectors so I don’t have any prep work involved!

However, if you are off the whole week, or have your Thanksgiving lesson plans already set and are gearing up for winter, I have some ideas for that, too!

1.  Christmas cookie craft


When I look back at this picture, it always makes me chuckle 🙂 I’ve typically used this activity during our Give A Mouse A Cookie unit, but this would be great leading up to Christmas (if you celebrate and are allowed to incorporate it into your lessons at school) to pretend to decorate Christmas cookies!  It’s a fun sensory experience that usually gets my littles talking, and we can work on simple sequencing of steps, too. I can hit some /sp/ blends with this too– if we use a “spoon” to “spread” the shaving cream and use glitter as the “sprinkles!”  Find more cookie activities in this blog post.

2.  TpT Products & A Freebie

Grab some language activities for your younger students, and get your kids up and moving with the phonology games! Winter Wonderland of PreK/K Language, Decorate the Tree Phonology, Build a Snowman Phonology-full version, Build a Snowman Phonology-freebie /f/ version

Also, over 70 SLPs contributed to this year’s Gifts of Gab ebook— download it for free to see hundreds of both paid and free TpT products for your holiday/winter season!

What are some fun holiday activities you do with your kids? We’d love for you to link up and share your ideas with us, too!

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  1. Ashley Rossi (Sweet Southern Speech) says

    November 23, 2015 at 1:31 am

    Love the chef hat idea!

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  2. Mary Cooper says

    November 23, 2015 at 3:00 am

    Ditto what Ashley said! Very cute!

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  3. Sparklle SLP says

    November 23, 2015 at 3:23 am

    The chef hat is adorable! Play dough was ALL I used when I did itinerant preschool therapy. My big kids still ask for it too!! Maybe I should let them have it!

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  4. Laura Dee says

    November 25, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    Such a cute and fun chef's hat!
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    November 29, 2015 at 3:46 pm

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