Boardmaker Candy Land Card Template

 I have a habit of going a bit overboard with planning sessions when I have too much time on my hands, which rarely happens. Still I figured everyone might as well benefit from my overachievingness (That's a word right?). Basically what I did was create a template for Candy Land cards that I could add my own pictures to. Sorry, you will have to have Boardmaker to be able to open these files. I was working on spelling with my kids so they would draw a card, spell the words, and then get to move. You could use this with articulation targets, vocabulary words, language targets, etc. Here's how mine turned out:



Enjoy:
Candy Land Cards- Singles
Candy Land Cards- Characters
Candy Land Cards- Doubles

Following Directions

Here's a simple pen and paper activity to see how a child is doing with following directions. I've made a couple different versions of this depending on the needs of the child but hopefully this gives you a basic idea.

Links to Great Sites

Here's a list of sites I use for materials

Making Friends

Has FREE paper doll print-outs with clothes for any theme you can think of

Has a lot of other FREE print-outs for Holiday Crafts

Tools for Educators

Has a game board making program that you can customize in a million ways.

Listening Room

I love this site! The materials are designed for working with children with hearing loss but there are games and other activities that would work well for a number of different children.

There is a section for preschool age and one for school age children and a section for infants and toddlers is "coming soon."

One downside is that the site changes every week and they only keep an activity on there for 2 weeks so you have to keep looking at the site to get all the activities.

Fall Ideas

Okay I guess I better get going with actually posting ideas up here. A few quick ideas for the season:

Leaf collecting is a great language activity. There are a lot of targets. You could work on verbs or directions such as "pick the leaf" "throw the leaf" "stomp on the leaf." You could also work on colors such as red, yellow, green, brown, and pink.

Save collections of fall leaves by putting them between two sheets of contact paper. This is great for little ones because it is fast and requires no glue.

There are great opportunities for narrative retells and sequencing during this time of year. Here are a couple of activities that you could create pictures to use for sequencing or ask the parent to take pictures of their child:

Carving a pumpkin

Putting on costume

Going trick-or-treating

Going to the corn maze

Making Halloween cookies

Let me know if you have any other ideas!

Thanks!

Welcome!

Hey USU speechies and others. At the urging of my classmates I've created this blog for all of us to help each other out with getting ideas for therapy. I hope all of you will be willing to share and comment. Thanks!