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Winter activities to stimulate communication

Published: 05 Jun 2020 Tagged: bucket listCommunicationCrazy Speech Worldigloosnowmansnowman descriptionspeech iglooSpeech Time FunTeachers Pay Teacherswinterwinter bucket list
Winter activities to stimulate communication

This week Australia started its Winter season, with low temperatures, snow in some places and many themed activities to conduct with children regarding speech and language! We have curated some great ideas for you as an SLP, educator, parent or carer to plan with your children and have much fun while stimulates children’s speech and language!

  • Speech Igloos: An igloo is drawn in a large paper, then the children cut some rectangular pieces of paper and write words related to themes selected by the conductor (as examples, we can mention adjectives, animals, words with double ‘o’ etc.). Then, the ‘paper blocks’ are glued over the igloo. For children, it’s a lot of fun to compare their igloos among one another to identify different words and learn by the difference. This great idea was created by from Crazy Speech World.
  • Snowman Description: Snowmen are very common images to depict winter, so why not explore it for the fun of kids? At first, children are instructed to draw their snowmen and decorate them with anything they like to draw (carrot nose, scarf, gloves at the end of sticks etc.). Then, children should write all words which are related to their snowmen, both generic things such as ‘cold’ and ‘big’ and the ones which show their customisations (‘blue scarf’, ‘tongue out’ etc.). Speech Time Fun has given this awesome idea!
  • Winter Bucket List: Bucket lists are always a great tool to engage children on discussing and giving ideas. There are many activities to avoid the cold of winter, or at least to take advantage of it – such as building snowmen or skiing! Teachers Pay Teachers have given a suggestion of winter bucket list which you could see clicking here.

What other winter activities do you have with your children to stimulate their communication and engagement during cold days of winter?

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