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Let's talk about some fun and practical crafts! Crafts are great reinforcers and keep students focused between turns!
Students will love making these watermelons! There are two options - use word pieces or bingo daubers!
Materials Needed:
- Paper plates (choose the kind that are flat-ish)
- Word Pieces (you can find them in my articulation crafts or speech therapy crafts bundles)
- Scissors
- Glue
Steps:
1. Cut the paper plate in half
2. Students color, cut, and glue their word pieces around the paper plate in a semi-circle. The pieces in the outer semi-circle should be green and the rest of the pieces should be pink or red!
3. OR Students can use green and red/pink bingo daubers
Easy peasy! The watermelon with the word pieces features categories sheets! These crafts can be used for all sorts of goals - not just for articulation! For instance, after a student names items in a category they can glue the category onto their watermelon!
You can also have students create a color base with the bingo daubers and then they can glue on just a few word pieces (they can glue them maybe every 3 or 4 inches apart).
My July Articulation Game Boards features four fun themes - including watermelon!
My Articulation Game Board Bundle is one of my favorite creations! Students LOVE collecting them throughout the year and they make great homework activities. Games don't feel like homework! :)
Another fun craft you can create are watermelon pacing sticks!
I used Darice's Colorful Foam popsicle sticks and watermelon stickers I found in the Target Dollar Spot! You could also have students just glue on little black dots to represent watermelon seeds!
If you have a student that benefits from pacing sticks, you can truly find a way to incorporate them into any theme! You just need some popsicle sticks and themed stickers!
Pacing sticks are great for students who stutter. They can touch each sticker on the pacing stick to create a flexible pace. They can also use them to aid in pausing and phrasing! I also love using pacing sticks with students who exhibit final consonant deletion. This helps them gain awareness that words consist of a variety of sounds. Just put three stickers on the pacing stick to represent the CVC word!
You can also use these sticks for articulation drills! Challenge students to squeeze in as many stickers as possible (they can use front and back) and then they can touch a sticker each time they practice a word! Pacing sticks can truly be used with mixed groups!
Lastly, let's talk about a fun book!
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli is fantastic! The illustrations are just wonderful and it's funny! It's about a crocodile that loves watermelon, but one day he accidentally swallows a seed! He begins to worry (maybe a watermelon will grow inside him and vines will come out of his ears?! haha) and he eventually burps it up and swears to never eat watermelon again...... well, maybe a little piece here and there won't hurt him. haha
Students will truly get a kick out of this book! Here are five ways to use it in speech-language therapy:
1) Cause and Effect
2) Describing - Maybe even bring in watermelon pieces for a taste test! Describing watermelons is so much fun!
3) Sequencing
4) Inferencing - The last page shows the crocodile with a worried face! We can infer that he swallowed another seed! haha
5) Articulation /ch/ - There's lots of chomping going on!
Do you have any ideas for a watermelon theme? Please comment and share!
Have a wonderful day!
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Such cute ideas-thanks! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! :)
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