Free Themed Winter Speech Therapy Activities for Canva
If you are looking for some free winter speech therapy activities, check out the resources included here! Below you will find ten fun and engaging activities you can easily edit and customize in Canva for your class or speech room. These editable templates are easy to customize with Canva’s drag and drop features, which makes changing out the graphics so easy. You’ll be able to access, edit and download these Canva templates in just a few minutes. So, here is a list of free winter themed speech therapy activities that you can find in Canva!
1. Winter Bingo
This printable winter bingo features 32 illustrated winter words that you can easily swap out with words you’d like to target. The set comes with 7 bingo boards and 32 calling calling cards. During the lesson, you can teach your students the words prior to the game (use the winter flashcards below), then play bingo!
Have your students listen to the clues, then guess the winter word from their bingo board. Once they guess the word, they can mark off the pictures and words on their bingo boards with a dot marker.
This activity helps with vocabulary development, listening skills, and following directions.
2. Winter Flashcards
These winter flashcards can be used in any winter-themed lesson to introduce children to winter words and are a great way to practice vocabulary words before using any winter resources.
You get 36 winter flashcards (approximately 2” x 2” each) that are 100% editable for free in Canva! These flashcards feature a winter word and a fun, colorful illustration to go with it. Each card is surrounded by a light blue border, so you can easily cut out the flashcards.
When you head to the blog post, you'll also get more winter flashcard printables you can use with your students.
Here’s how you can use these cards:
- Remove the text from each card to make this a fun guessing game where your students have to guess the winter word!
- Use these winter related flashcards as a memory or go fish game.
- Add pictures of items from your favorite winter related books!
Winter Speech Therapy Activities for Clothing
These activities are great if you are working on winter clothing with your students! There are three activities included in this set.
3. Winter Clothes PosteR
A colorful and photographic winter clothing poster that shows photos of winter clothing, such as a hat, glove, and coat. Hang the poster in and have your student point to and name each item as you go through them. This activity helps with vocabulary development and naming skills.
4. Winter Clothes Flashcards
This book can be used as a way to learn winter clothing vocabulary by reading a short and repetitive non-fiction story about how each piece of clothing helps to keep us warm. These can also be used as flashcards to help your students learn about the different clothes we wear in the winter.
5. wINTER cLOTHES wORKSHEET
A cut and paste worksheet that your students can use to practice receptive vocabulary skills. They’ll have to read the wh- questions included and try to find a matching picture.
winter speech therapy activities for Polar Animals
If your students are learning about arctic animals, you can use these four resources to work on their language goals. You can also help to reinforce the concepts they are learning in the classroom by reading these books that include polar animals. Here is a list of books you can use:
- Hello, World! Arctic Animals Board book
- A Polar Bear Journey (for older students)
- Who Lives Here? Polar Animals Paperback
- Polar Bears by Gail Gibbons
Here are each of the polar animal templates you can download in Canva for free!
6. Arctic Animals Poster
Another worksheet to target receptive language skills for early learners.
7. Arctic Animals Worksheet
Here are two other worksheets that target receptive language skills for early learners. Make sure you download these worksheets today!:
8. Arctic animals flashcards
Get these arctic animals matching flashcards. You can have fun with your students by having them play a matching game. Your students can race to be the first person to make the correct match.
9. Polar Animals Flashcards
This colorful and black and white set of flashcards is a great way to introduce your students to all the polar animals they will be learning about. Pair these polar animals flashcards with my favorite polar animals book is Tacky the Penguin!
If you want more activities for working on polar animals, then check out these free and editable Canva resources!
10. Even More Free Winter Speech Therapy Activities
I wanted to share so many free language activities for speech therapy but couldn't decide what the 10th resource should be, so I'm just going to share them all! Here are some editable winter speech therapy activities you can check out. All these resources are free and editable in Canva for Canva educators.
- Winter Roll and Cover: Here’s a fun open-ended activity that goes well with any goal!
- Winter Memory Match: Match the winter words in a memory match game:
- Write a Winter Sentence
- ‘Describe the Winter Word Worksheet
- Winter and summer sorting worksheet
- Clothes We Wear in Different Weather by Lu Creatives
- Winter Break Bingo Challenge Worksheet
If you are looking for winter speech therapy activities that are not editable but are still free, check out this list compiled by 219+ Free Winter Speech Therapy Activities.
Which were your favorite free winter speech therapy activities? Leave me a comment below!
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