Winter-based activities for communication and fun
As Autumn reaches its end, children must face a colder environment which sometimes prevent them from doing some activities and games they usually like due to the temperature and other weather factors. However, it's possible to have a lot of fun while having speech and language skills stimulated. In the last years, we have provided some great ideas - read some of them below and check where to find the other ones:
Winter activities to stimulate communication
- 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: click here for the complete description.
- Winter Bucket List: click here for the complete description.
Having fun during winter
- Indoor scavenger hunt: You can create a ‘treasure’ in a box and hide it, then scatter paper hints across the house of how to find it. Then, just observe the magic happening with engaged and excited children trying to find their prize!
- Cardboard houses: click here for the complete description.
- Winter sports: click here for the complete description.
- Party time: click here for the complete description.
- Wii or Xbox Kinect click here for the complete description.
Snowman activities for Winter
- Snowman building instructions: In order to stimulate sequencing and ordinal activities, this activity consists in talking about how to build a snowman, step by step. The child should be able to give a proper sequence of events. In order to make it funny, the child’s steps should be noted and literally followed after all the explanation, building a snowman from those instructions. If there is a wrong sequence, there should be something wrong that would make the child laugh, but learn that a proper order should be told for a correct snowman.
- Frosty the Snowman: click here for the complete description.
- Snowman roleplay: click here for the complete description.
Wintertime Holidays activities with speech and language
- Practice poetry and singing out loud: Your child will have plenty of free time to read something interesting or to listen to some engaging content. Why not recommending some poetry books and language-stimulating music? Children, especially younger ones, tend to feel surprised when noticing patterns in speech, such as rhymes and verses with the same number of syllables. Use that to stimulate their imagination, vocabulary assimilation and better understanding of grammatical rules.
- Explore memory games: click here for the complete description.
- Kitchen narrator-helper: click here for the complete description.
- Super StoryMaker app: click here for the complete description.
Enjoy your time with your children and make sure every time is time for fun and learning!
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