Fun and Free Christmas Speech Therapy Activities
The holiday season is a great time to use fun, festive Christmas speech therapy activities in your lessons. These speech therapy activities are all Christmas-themed and focus on helping students learn about Christmas vocabulary and best of all, they’re all free to use! So, get your students in the holiday spirit with these fun and free Christmas activities you can use in your therapy sessions.
These activities include a Christmas bingo, flashcards, worksheets, and more to help your students learn about Christmas vocabulary this year. Your students will have so much fun while using these activities in your speech therapy room!
Free Christmas Speech Therapy Activities
If you’re a speech language pathologist, then you might be wondering why you should download these free and editable Christmas activities. Here’s why:
- Free: The activities are free to use, which is great if you have limited resources.
- Engaging: The activities are fun and festive, which helps to keep students engaged and motivated.
- Vocabulary: The activities focus on helping students learn about Christmas vocabulary or language goals.
- Low Prep Activities: You can edit the templates, or just download them and print them as-is.
- Customizable: You can customize all these worksheets so you can use them with your entire caseload, from 1st grade and all the way to middle school and high school!
What's even better about these free templates is that you can personalize them for your speech therapy sessions or be sent for home practice.
Christmas Bingo
This printable free game comes with six different bingo cards, which are completely editable. Basically, each bingo board has a different selection of Christmas-themed target words, and all you have to do is print out the cards, and you’re ready to play!
The Christmas bingo boards and calling cards are great for practicing vocabulary for the holiday season. Every game board is unique!
The bingo boards are free and editable in Canva, so you can change the colors, fonts, images, and more. Edit the bingo game or just print it out for a last-minute fun activity!
This free resource is great for young students as well as older students.
Grab this Christmas speech therapy freebie today! It's one of my favorite things to practice all your students' language targets! You can even play bingo as a digital resource by con verting the bingo boards into a presentation in Canva.
CHRISTMAS mEMORY mATCH
These Christmas memory match cards feature all the vocabulary words for Christmas inside of Christmas trees – such a fun theme!
Here is what is included in this Canva template: 36 editable Christmas Memory Match cards (2″x3″) that target Christmas vocabulary (i.e., jingle bells, candy cane, gingerbread, etc).
There are so many ways to use these flashcards, and here are just a few ideas:
- Use these Christmas vocabulary cards to practice vocabulary and to define and describe the words.
- If you love playing games (e.g., Pop the Pig or Crocodile Dentist), then pair these flashcards with your favorite holiday activities.
- Have the students pick a card and try to find another flashcard that is related to the flashcard.
Now you're ready to play Memory!
- Print out two sets of Christmas theme flashcards.
- Secondly, place the cards facedown on the table.
- Players take turns flipping over two cards at a time, looking for a match.
- If the cards match, the player removes them from the game and gets another turn.
- If they do not match, then the player flips the cards back over and the next player takes their turn.
Your whole caseload will love this game: from your preschool children to older students!
The game is over when all of the cards have been matched and removed from the game. Last, the student who has the most cards at the end wins the game!
Describing Christmas Words
This worksheet helps students describe Christmas words.
If you have the Expanding Expressive Toolkit, then you can also use these worksheets with the manipulatives from the EET.
Here are some of the questions you can ask your students during this activity.
- What group does it belong to?
- What does it do?
- What color is it?
- Where do you find it?
- What are its parts?
- Where does it come from?
Christmas wh questions Worksheet
This festive Christmas Wh Questions Activity is perfect for young learners!
Students will read a “What” question related to a Christmas item (like “What do you put on top of a Christmas tree?”) and then cut and paste the correct picture under the question.
It’s an engaging, hands-on way to strengthen comprehension skills while building vocabulary around holiday items.
Perfect for language therapy sessions or fun classroom activities during Christmas time!
Christmas Flashcards
These photographic Christmas flashcards are a great way to introduce vocabulary words to your students.
There are 36 Christmas vocabulary words included in this set in full color and black and white so you can save on ink.
You can find flashcards for candy canes, bells, Santa, gingerbread man, and Christmas cookies!
You can even use these flashcards with your autistic students and language groups to help them learn Christmas vocabulary!
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Christmas Poster
This Christmas poster features Santa Claus and the holiday season’s most popular vocabulary words, such as Christmas trees, presents, and holiday lights. This printable festive poster is a great way to get your speech therapy students to learn to categorize objects and practice their speech skills during the holidays!
You can print this poster as-is, or you can also change out the images and include any vocabulary words you want.
Winter Break Writing
This winter break writing worksheet is a great way for students to compare and contrast their Christmas break with another student in the speech room.
Here are some tips for using the Winter Break Writing Worksheet:
- Pair up the students. If you have an odd number of students, then one student can pair up with you.
- The students will use some guided questions to ask each other about their winter breaks.
- They will record their responses on the included Venn diagram.
- Last, they will use the writing worksheets to write about their similarities and differences.
This worksheet is a great way for students to practice their writing skills, as well as their social skills by learning to take turns, listen to each other, and ask questions. Get this free download today!
cHRISTMAS rOLL AND cOVER
Do you work with students who have multiple goals? Then, use this Christmas roll and cover to target multiple goals at once.
Pair this roll and cover worksheet with some Christmas flashcards to work on:
- Speech sounds
- Comparing and contrasting
- Using complete sentences
- Requesting and taking turns
- Describing using the EET
- Categorization
- Past tense verbs
The Roll and Cover activity is great for groups with different goals because you don't have to change the activities.
For example, one student can practice describing items with the Expanding Expression Tool (EET), while another works on comparing and contrasting different holiday items.
You can use a die to determine how many circles the student needs to color. Then, use dab markers, crayons, or bingo chips to mark off the circles! To save on paper, place these worksheets in sheet protectors and mark them off with dry-erase markers.
This activity is great if you have mixed groups and want an option to have many language opportunities with one activity.
That way, you can target any speech or language goals with your elementary students.
You can use a dot marker, bingo chip, or crayons to fill in each dot.
Christmas Scavenger Hunt Worksheet
This I Spy printable worksheet is a fun way for students to practice their vocabulary and describing skills. You can send this worksheet home for students to work on before Christmas day. However, you could also use it in class with a fun Christmas video or story. The students must mark off each item when they see it in the video.
If you send the scavenger hunt worksheet home, the students can walk around their home or neighborhood to find the Christmas vocabulary words, like Christmas lights.
There is an included sentence prompt that asks the student to describe the item to a friend or family member. t
For example, if they are describing a Christmas tree, then can say: “A Christmas tree is a large evergreen tree that is decorated with lights and ornaments.
Scavenger hunts are so much, so try them with your speech students today! If you want more winter I Spy worksheets, check out my blog post:
Guess that Gift Bonus Game!
I also have a fun freebie that your students will love to play and will come back asking for more! This game is great for targeting receptive language skills and auditory processing, perfect for adding excitement to Christmas morning
Guess that gift is a FREE, fun, and engaging activity your students will love to play! This printable guessing game comes in both color and b&w and has an easy setup. Just print the cards, laminate them for durability (optional), and cut them!
What's included?
- Color and B&W version
- Answer key
- 35 gift clue cards – The cards include clues to some of your students’ favorite games and toys, such as Uno, Monopoly, slime, and more!
- 3 foil cards – If your students find an empty box, then they lose all their cards.
- 3 extra turn cards – However, if the students find two presents, they take an extra turn.
- 7 blank cards – On the other hand, use these cards to write in your own clues.
How do you play Guess that Gift?
First, place all the cards in a brown paper lunch bag to give the game an element of surprise! You can try all kinds of fun containers: Santa hats, mittens, sensory bins, etc.
The students take turns pulling a card out of the bag.
The next action depends on which card they get:
Clue Cards: These cards include clues to some of their favorite toys and games! If they guess the gift correctly, then they keep the card.
“Foil” cards: When a student gets this card, they lose a turn and return all their cards.
Extra turn card: The student takes an extra turn and gets to keep both cards.
Lastly, the student who gets the most cards wins the game!
This is the perfect mixed group activity to play at the end of your session.
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Related Holiday Blog Posts
- Winter Vocabulary Activities for Speech Therapy
- Thanksgiving Worksheets for Speech Therapy
- Speech Therapy Worksheets for Halloween
- Fall Activity Worksheets for Speech Therapy
More Christmas Therapy Activities
- Guess that Gift
- Christmas Vocabulary Bingo Game
- Christmas Email Headers
- December Holiday Games
- December Holiday Celebrations around the World
- December Holiday Bingo
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