I am SO excited to bring you a product review this week for Snapdolls! A sweet SLP friend of mine brought them to my attention and I just knew this would be a great activity for my preschool friends. Check it out!
There are four sets of Snapdolls you can choose from: Caucasian, Asian, Hispanic, and African American. I have the Hispanic set now, but I will probably add to this due to the diversity at my school. They are soft material and easy to clean. The Snapdolls themselves are much bigger than I anticipated, about 11 inches tall. That makes them easy to maneuver for little hands!
The Snapdolls have snaps on their body so that you can change out their clothes and accessories. Reminiscent of paper dolls, but a little more sturdy! The sets come with an outfit, hat, snacks, and two accessories (mine had a volleyball and a book). 
They have two add on sets, one for the seasons and one for careers, which both contain 20 additional pieces that are interchangeable with the Snapdolls. I got the seasonal set, which is awesome!
Here’s how I use them for therapy:
- Following directions: Students can dress the dolls according to your 1, 2, and 3 step directions.
- On/Off: We need basic concepts work in my room, so we worked on using ‘on’ and ‘off’ to talk about the dolls
- Vocabulary: Great for labeling parts of the body, clothing, seasons, etc.
- Social Skills: Pretend play with the Snapdolls and practice conversational skills like turn taking
- Describing: The colorful accessories allow my students to practice using colors and sizes to describe
- Pronouns: Easily target subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns
- Asking Questions: Hold all of the pieces and students have to ask for what they want to earn a piece to dress their doll.
- Articulation: Students earn a piece after they practice their target sound
I’m sure there’s more, these are just the ways I have used them so far. Not to mention, it’s great for fine motor skills for my friends who need practice snapping.
My kids and I really loving this new activity! I think you can use Snapdolls in tons of different ways and it’s a great addition to any SLPs toolbox. You can check them out HERE from Kaplan.
I would also love to give one reader their very own set of Snapdolls! Enter via the Rafflecopter below and good luck!
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Excellent product! It will be so useful with so many language and articulation goals. I would definitely use it to to target language expansion and use of pronouns in carrier phrase format. An engaging, flexible and no prep product! Yes please!
I would use these adorable dolls with my preschoolers and kindergarteners to target pronouns, describing objects, and vocabulary. I know they would absolutely love them!
This would be great as I’m a prek SLP. I would use the dolls to teach conceptual vocabulary!
These look like great products for therapy! I would definitely use them for pronouns, following directions, and vocabulary.
These are so cute. I would love to use them with my Kindergarten students!!
These would be perfect for my “emerging” verbal students!! We can use them for requesting, on/off, learning clothing item names etc.
I would use this product to easily target many language goals (especially following directions and describing). I think it would also be a great way to expand utterances for my preschoolers and kindergartners. I have several kids with both articulation and language goals and could use this as a reinforcer that they don’t realize is also I am also using as a therapy target! 🙂
I would use these to target pronouns! Many of my students have difficulty with this concept!
So many uses for this product. I’d use with my little ones for sure. Requesting, describing, pronouns, and of course following directions!
These look like a perfect, no-fuss way to target pronouns and following directions!
My younger kiddos would love this as a reinforcer while targeting language/articulation. After each turn, they can pick an item to use for their doll and by the end they have a completed doll! Thanks for all of your ideas 🙂
There are many different ways I could use the dolls, but I especially think they would be great for working on pronouns.
Oh, so many possibilities for these! On/off for the low kids or apraxic kids, pronouns, semantics (seasons, what to wear when, etc.), sequencing (what goes on first, next, last), etc.
These are very cute. I think one way I could use them would be for social skills and have the dolls ‘act out’ social scenarios. Of course they would be great for concepts, too. So many uses!
I would use these for our homeschooling group! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
Erin
Love these! As a graduate student just starting out I could definitely use them with the little ones on my caseload!
So cute! As I graduate student just starting out I can definitely use them during my clinical rotations!
These are great and so versatile!
My preschool kiddos would love these!!
I can think of several ways to use these but pronouns in sentences would be great with these!
This would be great to work on the seasons
LOVE THIS!!! I can definitely see using these with my preschoolers as well! Thanks for sharing.
I think these would be great to work on following directions and pronouns with my PreK and K caseload!
These look really fun! I like that they are bigger so I don’t have to worry about too small of pieces.
Vocabulary and following directions… Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
This product would be great for working on so many things…pronouns, body parts, categories, etc!
These dolls are so cute. I would like to use these, for a variety of lessons, with my caseload, consisting primarily of students on the autism spectrum, that are more severe. Thank you.
I would love these for my play-based therapy with little ones! So many possible targets.
So many ways I could use these with my autistic student who is pretty high functioning but needs lots of work on the social skills. He loves to make characters out of tissue and have conversations with them. These would be so much better! My preschoolers would love them too; anything they can manipulate, move around, etc. So many concepts that could be addressed. Pick me, pick me!