Speech Therapy Activities for December

December has rolled around and I have some super fun speech therapy ideas for your sessions this month!

Today I'm sharing some of my favorite December therapy activities with you! With only 3 weeks until break, there's so much to fit in. I like to do themes of gingerbread, reindeer, holidays, giving, and lights during December, so most of these resources are going to be for those! I'd love to hear what themes you like to use during the month, let me know in the comments!

Gingerbread

• Articulation Boom Cards – see how many gumdrops you can fit in the gingerbread's mouth!
• Inferences Boom Cards – Gingerbread has different disguises and students will answer who, what, and where questions about him
• Craft – includes templates and 8 different writing activities
• Grammar games – word order, noun-verb agreement, pronouns, conjunctions, and irregular past tense verbs
• Language games – problem solving, sequencing, inferences, vocabulary & context clues
• Easy Articulation Craft
• How to Catch a Gingerbread Man by Adam Wallace
• Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett is one I love to use in therapy to work on every single speech and language skills you can think of.
• Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett is the follow up to Gingerbread Baby! You could honestly use only these two books all month!
• The Gingerbread Man – this is a video I found that is great, plus a free book companion!

Reindeer

• Reindeer Articulation Boom Cards
• The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett is another fave… can you tell I love this author? 🙂
• Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh and J.otto Seibold is about a dog who thinks he is a reindeer! This one is free right now if you have a Kindle Unlimited membership!
• These reindeer poppers are always a big hit with my students!
• Open Ended Reindeer activities (dot pages and feed the reindeer game)
• Free Reindeer Craft with writing activities and templates!
• Easy craft for articulation using handprints

Holiday Books

• The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree is a wonderful story about giving. I cannot recommend it enough!
• Stick Man by Julia Donaldson is a silly story about a stick who gets separated from his family and he needs to get home for Christmas.
• Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman is one of my favorites for my little learners!
• Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto and Ed Martinez is about a little girl that is finally old enough to help her family make tamales for Christmas…until she loses her mother's ring in the tamales!  This one is comical and all ends well for the family, creating memories that will last forever!
• Latkes, Latkes, Good to Eat: A Chanukah Story by Naomi Howland is a fun story with a lesson to be learned!  This book is awesome for inferencing and problem solving,  and my students always love the chant in the story line.  Also, there's a recipe for making latkes at the end, if you are feeling spunky!
• Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story is a wonderfully illustrated story that explains the Kwanzaa principles and is great for talking about differences in families, working together, and problem solving.

Holiday Freebies

• Open Ended Boom Card Game
• DIY Sensory bags
• Wreath Craft
• Christmas tree articulation craft
• Social Thinking Tree
• Plural Pops
• Elf Synonyms

Holiday Resources

• Decorate the Tree Articulation Boom Cards
• Christmas Scavenger Hunt for Inferencing and Following Directions Boom Cards
• Christmas Interactive Vocabulary
• December No Prep (print and Google Slides)
• Elf Craft
• K, G, F Christmas Trees
• R, S, L Christmas Trees
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell book companion

Phew! That's more than enough to keep the kids busy for the next 3 weeks. I hope you found something here helpful, let me know what else you might need.