Winter Speech and Language Activities to Do at Home

Winter is here!  Celebrate the season with fun winter activities for kids.

Cook Together

Cooking is a fun activity to do with your child and you can work on sequencing, following directions, and vocabulary at the same time. Some of my favorite recipes to make during the wintertime are chocolate chip cookies, hot chocolate, and chicken noodle soup.

Create a picture scene

Gather some stickers or window decals and create a fun picture scene.  There are several different language skills you can work on while creating your child’s masterpiece. Have your child describe and label objects in the picture, ask him or her wh-questions (“Where is the snowman?”), make up a fun story, or working on following directions as the create the picture.

Winter Themed Crafts

Making winter-themed arts and crafts is a great opportunity to work on various language skills. One of my favorite resources for finding crafts is DLTK’s Crafts for Kids

You can work on:

  • Following directions-for example, “Color the mittens brown and red.”

  • Prepositions- for example, “Put the snowman next to the boy.”

  • Adjectives - for example, have your child describe the craft they created, “The snowman is round and big”

  • Express Wants and Needs- for example, have your child the materials they need for the craft, “I need the blue crayon and pink marker.”

Nature Walk

Nature walks can be both relaxing and educational.  First, start with taking a walk-in nature or around your neighborhood and see how many things you can find that start with the letter your child is working on for his or her articulation skills.  For example, if your child is working on producing /r/ in sentences you could find things like “red”, “rabbit”, “reindeer”, and “road.” As you find /r/ words on your walk have them put the /r/ words into sentences.

Play I-Spy

Choose objects around the house to describe to help increase your child’s comprehension and listening skills. For example, “I spy with my little eye…something black, smooth, soft, and covered in blankets (the couch).” This also allows an opportunity for your child is able to describe an object to you to work on expressive language skills as well.

Scavenger Hunt

Indoors or outdoors, find winter themed items to hide around your home or in your backyard. Scavenger hunts give an opportunity to expand your child’s receptive vocabulary, expose him/her to new adjectives, and work on following directions.  Provide a visual of the items to search for or make a checklist.

I hope that you and your child enjoy these winter themed speech and language activities! Additionally, feel free to contact In Home Language Solutions if you have questions or concerns or if there’s anything we can help with.

 

Jennifer Price M.S., CCC-SLP

Lead Speech-Language Pathologist & Owner

 

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