Today I’m so excited to be talking about these adorable Snapdolls from Kaplan. These little friends will be a favorite in your speech room and your OT will also thank you for doing some double duty! I love when products have multiple purposes!
When you purchase the dolls, you receive a boy and a girl and have the option of choosing Caucasian, African American, Asian, and Hispanic to best fit your caseload. We’ve named our little friends Jill and Ronny.
The dolls come with heavy-duty snaps and a fun outfit.
For endless possibilities to practice language concepts, choose either the Career Set or the Weather Set to dress your dolls (sold separately).
I chose the career set and am loving the 20 pieces (4 career uniforms) my students can learn about.
Simply dress the dolls by snapping on their clothes and accessories.
I’ll admit, at first I was a little hesitant about the snaps and was afraid they would come off. However, they have been tried and tested by multiple students AND my not-so-cautious toddler and have withstood yanking, grabbing and tugging.
What have I used these dolls for?
- Naming and identifying careers
- Role-playing and pretend play
- Identifying and sorting colors
- Sorting and matching accessories to professions
And my little ones have also practiced their fine-motor control and strength by snapping on the accessories!
I hope you will give these friends a chance in your speech room. They have become a favorite in ours! The creators have generously agreed to give away one doll and one career set (a $40 value!) Comment below on how you would use these dolls in therapy for a chance to win!
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Josie says
February 23, 2016 at 6:12 amThese would be great to target pronouns, expressively and receptively. I can also use them for description tasks and following directions by setting up a barrier and having students describe how they want their doll dressed. Looks like a great product!
Karen says
February 23, 2016 at 8:03 amThese can also be used to target articulation. I have some students who are working on /f/, for example. “Chef” and “fireman” paraphernalia would be so much fun for them to practice! There’s always room to practice “I want…” for those students who are learning to expand utterances.
Santha Varghese says
February 23, 2016 at 11:19 amWhat a great multi purpose product.l! My students would practice focused attention, fine motor skills, sorting and career related vocabulary as they build. They would be engaged & experience a sense of accomplishment. Then for clean up and activity extension, (depending on their level & with arms crossed) either the students/I would descriptively instruct which item to put away. This will definite be a highly requested toy set on my shelf!
Shara Barlage Kuehl says
February 23, 2016 at 12:13 pmThese dolls would be highly reinforcing and would offer a naturalistic way to stimulate and teach language (vocabulary and concepts). I could teach body parts, clothing and community helper vocabulary. I could also teach spatial, conditional and temporal concepts through following directions. I could also work on story telling using the dolls as characters. I go on and on:)
Cheryl Willis says
February 23, 2016 at 12:22 pmI would use these dolls to address identification of clothing, pronouns, descriptions and to discuss community helpers.
Erin Diggins says
February 23, 2016 at 12:31 pmThese would be great for my preschoolers! I love using toys like these for following directions, prepositions, pronouns, and vocabulary!
Gail says
February 23, 2016 at 1:17 pmThere are so many ways that I could use these dolls with my preschoolers! I could work on labeling, requesting,conversational speech, pretend play skills, sorting, categorization, community helpers, pronouns….the list is endless! I am sure they would just love these dolls and my OT would, too.
Ann-Marie Small says
February 23, 2016 at 1:20 pmWow! These dolls have such flexibility of use! The students I serve have multiple disabilities. They always do better when I can give them manipulatives or materials to interact with during lessons. We could use these dolls to discuss all types of functional vocabulary: Clothing, body parts, community workers, verbs and descriptors. These would also be great to target pronuns and some prepositions as well. What a great product!
Brenda says
February 23, 2016 at 1:44 pmThese would be great working with my 4 year old language students! Love that they crossover into fine motor. I see that as a need in so many of my 4 year olds!
Kailey says
February 23, 2016 at 1:49 pmI would love having these dolls for therapy! I work with mainly preschoolers and vocabulary building is a main area for them! These are perfect for learning community helpers, body parts, following directions, and describing. I also love that these aren’t fragile. My kids will need to be able to rip them apart and it looks like they can! Thank you in advance Kaplan and Allison for giving me the chance to learn about these Snapdolls!
LouAnn M. says
February 23, 2016 at 2:33 pmThese dolls would become a student favorite very quickly, and they will last so much longer than plastic colorform dolls. The Kaplan dolls would be so easy to use with pairs of students to target following directions and spatial concepts using barriers. We could practice descriptive vocabulary by having each student reach into a bag and pick a piece to then describe. The other students would need to guess the described piece of clothing or object. We would practice making requests by having students request clothing items from each other. I would make picture scenes and allow the students to role play problems and solutions to target social skills. The ideas are endless, and I could replace my old colorform dolls. The Kaplan dolls will move to the top of my wish list!
Nicole Allison says
March 1, 2016 at 4:15 pmYou win LouAnn! I’ll have the producers email you to ship the dolls! Congrats!
Jane Trueblood says
February 23, 2016 at 2:38 pmThe uses are endless. You can use them for describing, predicting, inferring.
Janel says
February 23, 2016 at 2:44 pmThese could have so many uses! I would love to use them with my preschoolers and target following directions, labeling, vocabulary, pronouns, describing – the list goes on. They would also be fun as an earn a turn with those students working on articulation.
Allison says
February 23, 2016 at 3:15 pmWow, the possibilities are endless.
I work in special needs classroom, and most of my students in this population have goals in labeling common objects, body parts, and clothing items. The higher functioning ones have wh- goals. They are also learning self-help skills in their classrooms, such as dressing themselves. With nonverbal kids, we are also working on greetings. These dolls are great for this population!
Allison says
February 23, 2016 at 3:16 pm6 special needs PK classrooms*
Angela says
February 23, 2016 at 3:26 pmWhat a great product! I would use these when co-treating with OT (with our students with Autism) to target both fine motor and language skills. Specifically I can see using them to work on pronouns, vocabulary, prepositions, and ‘wh’ questions. I think there would be a wide variety of uses for these dolls!!
Becca says
February 23, 2016 at 3:54 pmI love the thought of how many ways these could be used in therapy! The previous commenters’ ideas and your ideas are perfect! Such an awesome product.
martha says
February 23, 2016 at 3:58 pmthese are adorable! i would use with preschool and school-age kids to work on all types of language activities, articulation, and could even use in feeding therapy with role-playing. i think my clients parents would love them too 🙂
Amberlie says
February 23, 2016 at 4:30 pmWould love these for our community helpers unit in my special needs preschool! ♡
Kim Hovey says
February 23, 2016 at 4:36 pmThis is a great product! I would use them for pronouns, descriptive sentences, basic concepts (on/off/etc.), who questions and functions. Oh, and even part/whole!
Diane says
February 23, 2016 at 4:40 pmThe articulation and language therapy potential with this product are limitless-my mind races! I can also anticipate using it with students with a wide range of ages and ability level!
Lindsay M. says
February 23, 2016 at 5:54 pmI can see these being really helpful with some of the ELL students that I work with to teach the names of some common nouns in English!
Kendall says
February 23, 2016 at 6:14 pmThese would be great for sequencing and describing, labeling and requesting, articulation, pronouns, and listening/following directions. It looks like an awesome and versatile product!
Gayle says
February 23, 2016 at 6:16 pmThis product could target so many goals – vocabulary, concepts, grammar, following directions, etc. I might also use it as a reinforcer.
Hannah says
February 23, 2016 at 8:42 pmThese would be great for categorization (girl, boy, occupations, clothes, shoes, etc.), teaching sequencing, vocabulary, and grammar! The opportunities are endless!
Amber Reese says
February 23, 2016 at 8:44 pmThese look so fun! I would use them for labeling, following directions, or just fun role play!
Nikole Combs says
February 23, 2016 at 9:03 pmI love the ideas you have posted and the ideas others have posted. There are so many ways to use these dolls for articulation, expressive language, and receptive language. I would love to have these!
Rebecca clay says
February 23, 2016 at 9:06 pmSO much to target!!! Pronouns especially for my little ones as well as naming occupations (and actions!) you could also target negation : she has a hat, he doesn’t have a hat. These are amazing!
Kathy C says
February 23, 2016 at 9:11 pmSO MANY ways, articulation, vocabulary, sequencing, pronouns, following directions…. Wow. Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
Karlee says
February 23, 2016 at 9:12 pmThese would be great for targeting pronouns, basic vocabulary for colors and clothing items, requesting items, possessives, following directions, and sequencing activities! They would also be a great reinforcer game to see which student could get their person completely dressed first!
Marni says
February 23, 2016 at 9:17 pmThese dolls would be a wonderful activity to be used in therapy! They can be used to build articulation, receptive language, and expressive language in so many creative ways. My students with Autism and Down Syndrome would love using these dolls to target labeling, following directions, answering WH- questions, and categorizing. These would also be great for my students that use AAC devices, as they can practice requesting the different clothes to put on the dolls! I would also use them to simultaneously work on vocabulary, as many of my students have diverse backgrounds. These snapback dolls would bring so much joy to my students! Thank you for sharing about them!
Joanna says
February 23, 2016 at 9:23 pmI would LOVE to have these dolls for my preschool students! I could use them to target pronouns, verbs, vocabulary, spatial concepts, colors, counting, answering WH and yes/no questions, following directions, articulation, phonology, pretend play…the list goes on!
Jo says
February 23, 2016 at 10:43 pmThese would be great to use with my early intervention kiddos. I would use them to work on body parts, weather, and of course clothing items. These would be perfect to hide in a sensory bin!
Beth says
February 23, 2016 at 11:28 pmLots of possibilities! Pronouns, basic concepts, vocabulary, requesting.
Kaitlyn B says
February 24, 2016 at 12:50 amI love these! They’d be great to target pronouns, occupations, following directions and even /sn/ blends!
Kaitlyn B says
February 24, 2016 at 12:53 amAdorable! They’d be great for targeting pronouns, occupations, following directions and even /sn/ blends! I love that they are small and easy to bring to client’s homes.
Stephanie K says
February 24, 2016 at 1:25 amI can definitely see using these with a little girl who uses a VOD working on requesting skills
Lindsay says
February 24, 2016 at 1:32 amThese dolls would be amazing to work on various concepts with my younger students, or as reinforcement pieces that could be earned during speech drills!
Ashley says
February 24, 2016 at 2:13 amI work in a school of all special needs students. These would be wonderful to use with all the students in way too many ways to name!! So cute too!
Debbie says
February 24, 2016 at 4:24 pmI ADORE these sweet dolls! The possibilities for my school population are endless since I have 4 self-contained classrooms ( 2 with autism) as well as a ton of regular ed kiddos. I can use these for making verbal requests, sentence structure, pronoun practice, articulation practice, comparing and contrasting, describing skills and on and on. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Kristine says
February 24, 2016 at 4:33 pmFor my younger prek students, we could use the dolls to name clothing items and body parts. For elementary students, I might use the dolls to work on pronouns and answering questions. You could work on many different goals.
nancy says
February 24, 2016 at 5:00 pmI would use these materials to learn and name body parts and explore imaginary ply for my little ones. I would love these 🙂
Annie says
February 24, 2016 at 10:35 pmFirst off, I love that these dolls come in different, culturally appropriate varieties. It is so hard to find items like that represent the population of students on my caseload. Secondly, these dolls look like they can be used in so many ways. For my nonverbal students, I can use them to request “on”, “off”, “more”, etc. and for my emerging verbal students I can use it to work on learning the names of clothing items, body parts, etc. I also would choose the career set because many of my students are working on a variety of “wh” questions including “who” and have difficulty learning the names of common occupations. This is would be much more fun than coloring in a worksheet!
Lauren says
February 25, 2016 at 12:00 amI would love to use the career set of dolls with my preschoolers, as we are learning about community helpers! I love to use materials that keep little hands busy while learning the new vocabulary!
Michelle says
February 25, 2016 at 11:33 amWhere to begin?! These would be great for working on articulation skills and also language skills, particularly prepositions, basic concepts, pronouns, vocabulary, and the list goes on and on…
alison weigand says
February 25, 2016 at 10:34 pmso many uses but of course… thats the true art behind all speech therapists!
giving and taking directions, sentence construction, pronouns, basic vocabulary (clothing, body parts).
Shane Sellers says
February 25, 2016 at 11:38 pmSo many ways I could use these with my autistic student who is pretty high functioning but needs lots of work on the social skills. He loves to make characters out of tissue and have conversations with them. These would be so much better! My preschoolers would love them too; anything they can manipulate, move around, etc. So many concepts that could be addressed. Pick me, pick me!
Carly says
February 26, 2016 at 6:52 pmI have so many preschool students on my caseload right now. I know these dolls would be a hit! I could work on increasing utterance length, work on the the prepositions “on” and “off”. Pronouns also would be a “snap”! They look super fun and engaging!