14+ Easy Spring Themed Activities for Speech and Language Therapy

Spring is such a fun theme to use in your speech and language therapy sessions. 

There are so many subthemes, too, which makes it the perfect theme to use for several weeks!

You could talk about rain, weather, gardens, baby animals, bugs, rabbits, and/or chickens.

This gives you SO many options for incorporating TONS of relevant vocabulary into your speech therapy sessions!

Here are 14+ easy spring-themed ideas to use in your speech therapy sessions over the next couple of weeks.

14+ Spring Speech Therapy Activities:

• Read a book about the life cycle of a plant. Little Acorn by Igloo Books is a great story about an acorn that also incorporates facts about the life cycle of a tree. This book is amazing because you can use it in the spring and/or fall! So it's a win win!
• Watch a video of how plants grow and discuss the steps.
• Draw out a garden you want to plant and describe it. Make sure to use all of your target speech sounds!
• Practice following directions with a spring theme. Use props/pictures and create your own directions for students to follow. You could even grab some fake flowers or sunflower seeds to use as manipulatives. (*Make sure to check for allergies if you choose to use seeds.)
• Print and cut out spring-themed shapes (e.g., flowers, rain clouds, puddles, baby animals, etc.). They can all be the same, or they can be different. Write target vocabulary on them and hide them around the room. As you practice the vocabulary targets, say “where” you found the picture. For example, “I found the flowers under the table!”
• Cut out some paper raindrops, write target words/vocabulary on each one and fling it off of a parachute. Practice the words as you find the raindrop. While using the parachute, you can also target up/down, high/low, fast/slow, etc.
• Sing a spring or rainy day song. One great spring song that includes movement is “Springtime Dance!” by Jack Hartmann. Another great song is “Spring is Here” by the Learning Station. *Make sure to watch videos in advance to check for appropriateness for your students.*
• Create a simple spring themed sensory bin. Use a filler such as black beans or brown crinkle paper. Add a scoop, tongs, spoons, or measuring cups. Add objects to find such as fake flowers, flash cards, and flower shaped toys. That’s it! You can also add a small container to “hide” the items into such as a miniature watering can. 

• Check out a NO PREP spring themed activity by clicking HERE, or find it at the end of this post.
• Using lots of paper raindrops or fake flowers, spell out letters and names. You could also line them up and talk about which line is long/longer/longest, short/shorter/shortest, etc.
• Practice describing different spring themed items using photos. 
• Create some baby animals using modeling dough. Describe your animals. Talk about what it looks like, but also tell a story about it. What does your animal like to do? What does your animal like to eat? Is your animal similar or different than your friend’s? Target fringe vocabulary words such as squish/squeeze, mold, roll, and pound/smash.
• Whatever toys your students love to play with, turn it into a spring scene by taping paper flowers or raindrops on it! It's really fun with toy doll houses and plastic barns.
• Grab some flower shaped sugar cookies to decorate with frosting and candy. A little too much effort/money? Cut out some flowers and other smaller shapes. Decorate them by following directions or describe your flower. Make sure to use all of your good speech sounds!

Plastic Garden Toy Activities for Speech Therapy

☝️ Have you seen one of these plastic garden toys? There are SO many ways you can use it in therapy! And my students absolutely LOVE this toy!

They are SO fun, and they're not that expensive (depending on the brand and the number of pieces you want). They’re also really easy to clean since all of the pieces are plastic.

Just search "plastic flower garden toy" on Amazon to come up with TONS of options!

Here are 11 ways to use this toy in therapy:

• Name garden vocabulary.
• Practice following directions. Take turns giving directions for how to build the garden (e.g., Put the big yellow flower on top of the small pink one.).
• Practice spatial concepts such as on, under, next to, behind, and in front.
• Target cluster reduction: flower, plant, smell, sprout, grow.
• Practice core words such as “more,” “put,” “on,” and “off.”
• Ask and answer “WH” questions including "what (e.g., What do you use to dig a hole?)," "where (e.g., Where do you find plant roots?)," and "when (e.g., When do you plant seeds?)."
• Practice taking care of a garden and talk about the steps to growing your own. 
• Add bug mini objects so you can pretend play or practice following directions! Have little ones on your caseload who don't love flowers? Add mini action figures and pretend to play hide and seek or have a "battle." You can find a lot of mini erasers and objects at Target and the Dollar Tree.
• If it’s still snowing where you live (or you want to use this toy during the winter), just add cotton ball “snowballs.”
• Play a barrier game: Practice following directions so your garden looks just like the other person's.
• Hide the flower pieces around the room and say where you found them.

Spring is one of the best overarching themes to use in your speech therapy sessions. It always seems to fill my students with hope and drive to work harder after those long and dreary winter months.

🤔 But what if you want to get started with some spring themed activities, but you don’t really have access to a lot of materials? Or you don’t have a place to store them... 

No problem! Just grab some NO PREP differentiated spring categories and following directions activities.

🤔 No access to a functioning printer? 

No sweat! Just open these worksheets in a PDF reader on a device and mark up the page digitally.

🤔 Need help coming up with a homework idea?

Just print a few extra worksheets to send home as homework. Simple enough!

🌷Cross something off of your to-do list and save time planning by checking out these NO PREP spring themed speech therapy activities below!

Check out the spring activities by clicking HERE.