It’s almost that time of year again, and for us, that means it’s time to break out the fun Christmas speech therapy activities! We love getting into the spirit and preparing creative, seasonal therapy sessions for our clients to enjoy.
In today’s blog we’re sharing some of our favourite Christmas speech therapy activities that we’ve come across over the years. While we’ve focused on language-based activities for the most part, you can always take these activities and adjust them to suit your client’s individual speech therapy goals.
Keep reading to discover some fun Christmas speech therapy activities!
5 Fun Christmas Speech Therapy Activities to Try This Holidays!
Christmas Tree Colouring In Barrier Game
Do you love using barrier games in speech therapy? We do too! This Christmas colouring in activity is a great option for bringing the festivities into your speech therapy sessions. All you’ll need to do is download the activity from Twinkl, read the instructions, and load up a box with crayons or colouring pencils and you’re ready to go.
Christmas Vocabulary Activity
Working on vocabulary in your speech therapy sessions? You’ll love this free Christmas activity pack from United Teaching. Simply download the pack here to start using these fun and engaging Christmas-themed games in your sessions. This pack include Christmas labelling worksheets, a Christmas Word Find, and a ‘My Book of Christmas Words’ booklet for your students to make.
Christmas Digital Scavenger Hunt
Do you have a few telehealth speech therapy sessions leading into the holidays? We’ve got an activity for you! Stacy Crouse is a wonderfully creative SLP who has a bunch of helpful telehealth resources for speech therapy. Over on her TPT account, you’ll find the Christmas Scavenger Hunt activity. We’ve used this one with our telehealth clients and they absolutely loved it! Simply download your copy and follow the instructions to get set for your next telehealth session. We’d highly recommend checking out Stacy’s other resources too, she’s got plenty to choose from to add some excitement to your telehealth sessions.
Christmas Reading Comprehension Activity
Are you working on reading and comprehension in your sessions? We’ve got a Christmas speech therapy activity for you! The wonderful Hallie Sherman from Speech Time Fun has put together this ‘Help Santa Get Ready’ interactive activity. Download your copy over on TPT and follow the instructions to create a super fun speech therapy session for the silly season.
Psst -> Keen to learn more about AAC? Hallie interviewed SpeechEase Director, Kate Thomson, on the SLP Coffee Talk podcast all about her experience supporting clients with AAC. Give the episode a listen over here!
Make a Christmas Tree – Digital Game
Do you use your iPad to introduce games into your face-to-face speech therapy sessions? Or maybe you’re looking for another fun christmas speech therapy activity that you can use for telehealth clients. Sydney from our Mackay clinic recently introduced us to the ABC ‘Make a Christmas Tree‘ game, and it makes for a perfect addition to any holiday themed session. Access it for free and start session planning with it today!
We hope you’ve found this list of Christmas speech therapy activities helpful. For more speech therapy ideas and speechie career inspo, head on over to our blog. We’re always sharing our favourite speech therapy resources and the things our speechies do to make their career dreams come true.
