If you know me at all, you know that I love simple. You know I’m a little picky. Perhaps you saw this Valentine craft or this Spring craft. I really only entertain the idea of holiday crafts in my speech if they have these components:
- easy
- can be prepped in under 30 minutes
- must require materials that I already own
- need to be able to address a variety of goals on my caseload
So….when I saw this little number on Pinterest, I knew it would be just PERFECT.
I’ve been so happy this year to be working with an amazing student speech therapist. Together in room 134, we’ve been busy making these adaptable rainbows!
All you need is construction paper, a marker and a stapler.
Cut the construction paper into colored strips, cut out a pot and a “pillowy” strip of gold.
This is where it gets interesting! Students write on the colored strips to address their goals. We’ve been busy writing sentences, similes, words containing their sounds, rhyming words and vocabulary words!
We sure are colorful!
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Annie Doyle says
March 4, 2015 at 10:48 pmPerfect craft and I love your “craft criteria.” I should follow it!
Nikki says
March 5, 2015 at 1:34 pmCute! Will try to do that with my kids. I’m thinking about targeting sentence structures with that one! The chain would work perfectly as a visual cue and as a reinforcement! 🙂
sjm says
March 15, 2017 at 2:22 pmGreat idea! TY!
Julie says
March 14, 2017 at 7:45 pmI love this idea! I was just thinking about doing a craft for St. Patrick’s day and then I got your email! Perfect!
Jennifer says
March 15, 2017 at 5:57 pmI personally love crafts but can’t seem to incorporate them into speech. It feels like it takes soooo much time – away from working on the goals, I mean. The kids don’t want to stop what they’re doing when it’s their turn to do/say something. My table ends up a mess. They’re constantly asking, “how do you spell?” So many SLP’s use and love crafts. Where am I going wrong?
Nicole Allison says
March 17, 2017 at 6:19 pmHi Jennifer, it is completely up to you whether you want to build the often messy crafts into your day! I do realize I don’t tend to get as many trials in during craft or experiment days but I feel the real life learning benefits outweigh that. Once in a while, I’ll put away my data binder (shhhh!) and just work with the kids, without worrying about their goals. Those are often the days I walk away feeling like the best learning occurred 🙂