Speech Therapy Activities for Sneezy the Snowman – Plus, Free Download!

Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright and illustrated by Stephen Gilpin is a funny winter story that children will love! It is great for your speech and language therapy sessions because it can be used to target a large variety of common communication goals…

• /s, r, l/ blends
• opposites
• cause and effect
• regular and irregular past tense verbs
• rhyming
• clothing and body parts vocabulary
• adjectives

Snowmen are always an engaging theme, here are some fun activities that you can pair with this story:

Sensory Bin

A sensory bin is always a fun way to introduce a new story! For winter, I like filling it with cotton balls or shredded white paper. You could also make fake snow! You can put pictures of the characters inside or target a specific goal, like with the pictured bin above we were working on antonyms. You can grab the free snowball antonyms in the member library if you are signed up for the newsletter crew!

Melted Snowman Craft

This is one you've seen from me before if you follow along on social media! It’s a lazy craft, where you don’t need much else but paper and scissors. Your students can even draw the snowman’s parts if you don’t want to cut them out! Just cut strips of white paper and students can arrange them on their paper as their ‘melted' snowman.

Open-Ended Games

Have mixed groups with everyone working on something different? I love a good dot page or game board to address many goals at the same time! You can target their specific goal for their turn, then they can color or use mini erasers to fill up their page.

Digital Books

Many times you can find a story on YouTube, which is fun to do with one of your readings since it is a little different! You can pair it with a comprehension activity that students do after listening. Bonus tip? Place your worksheets into a page protector to be able to use them with dry-erase markers!

Boom Cards

If you're lucky enough to have a SmartBoard (or something similar) in your therapy room, using Boom Cards is a fun way to practice skills with the books instead of pencil/paper activities. You can also use them on an iPad or computer.

Snowman Snack

Adding food is always a good language activity. I like using popcorn because it's easy, doesn't take long, and is something the kids can help with. This would be a great way to wrap up the story after reading it a few times. Have your students discuss/write the steps to make popcorn. Let them decorate a cup and talk about the different facial features of their snowman, describing the details of what it would be made of. Fill it with popcorn, then snack and chat about their favorite part in the story.

I hope that gives you some fun ideas to use in your speech sessions this season! If you want a free story retell worksheet, make sure you fill out the form below