10 Sizzling Free Summer Speech and Language Activities You’ll Love!

Ready for summer in your speech therapy room?

If you’re wrapping up the school year or planning your summer speech therapy sessions, I’ve gathered some terrific recommendations for summertime speech therapy activities for you.

How about exploring the blue ocean, camping out, catching a few bugs, heading to the beach, grabbing a cold ice cream cone, or going on vacation in speech therapy?

No need to search for engaging summer speech and language activities, I’ve got you covered.

Be ready for summer sessions with this fun round-up of summer speech and language freebies and product recommendations from a few of my favorite SLP authors. So grab a lemonade and enjoy the warm breezes, you’re all set.

10 free speech therapy resources for summer:

1. From Speech Sprouts
The Freebie: Shark Week Articulation Speech Therapy Craft

Paste the teeth in the shark’s mouth to complete his toothy grin. This fun shark activity is perfect to pair with your pirate or ocean speech therapy theme.

Recommended: Summer Speech Therapy Activities Ocean Bundle Feel the ocean breezes with Diver, Diver, an ocean animal cut and paste booklet for who questions, a book companion for Smiley Shark and That’s Fishy, a hands-on game for littles that works on negatives, categories, color matching, and associations.

Summer Picture Story Sequencing Sequence and retell these bright, fun 2, 3, and 4-step picture stories with puzzles, sequencing cards, mats, and cut-and-paste pages. Pre-K to 2nd grade.

2. From Susan Berkowitz
The Freebie: Free AAC at The Beach- Summer Communicating Fun. Implement AAC at the beach this summer! Includes vocabulary suggestions, directions of Aided Input, general AAC information, and a topic-based picture communication board.

Recommended: My Summer Journal: Writing about Vacation Activities. Send this writing project home with students over the summer. Students write where they went and what they did using pages that provide visual, themed picture cues and wh statement prompts.

3. From Lynda SLP123
The Freebie: AArgh! Let’s Be Pirates Game An open-ended game that can be used to target any skill in speech & language therapy

Recommended: Speech BugaBoo Game Try to collect the most bugs to be the winner! It’s not that easy when friends have nets to steal a bug or the hungry frog appears to eat a bug.

4. From Sarah Wu- Speech is Beautiful

The Freebie: Try this Tongue-Twister Boom Card Deck to jazz up your speech therapy sessions with students working on carryover

Recommended: No-Prep Summer Speech Therapy- Receptive and Expressive Language Print and go language means more time for you! Pronouns, spatial concepts, wh questions, describing, compare and contrast, describing, and listening too. Pre-K to 1st grade.

5. From Speech Universe

The Freebie: No-Print Ice-Cream Articulation for J Say your word, then click on the ice cream scoops to make a huge ice cream treat.

Recommended: Summer Camp Bundle A tentful of language activities and games.

6. From Mia McDaniel

The Freebie: Quick Drill Little Fish Game A fun, open-ended game that’s also great for articulation of F and SH.

Recommended: Flip-Flop Dot Art Grab the paint daubers, magnetic tokens, dough, mini objects, or mini erasers to have fun painting or covering the target pictures.

7. From TLC Talkshop

The Freebie: S’More Open-Ended Fun Build S’Mores with a twist! Spicy, Smelly, Sweet or Strawberry, children race to complete their recipe. 1st grade to 5th grade.

Recommended: Language is a Ball: Beach Ball Craft Create beach balls for Function, Part-Whole, Categories, Descriptions, Homonyms, Prepositions, Pronouns, Plural Nouns, and Verbs! Pre-K to 5th grade.

8. From Ms. Gardenia’s Speech Room

The Freebie: No-Prep Summer WH Questions Print and Go for following directions and those tricky WH questions. Color your answers in the picture, or predict and draw what will happen next. PK to 2nd grade.

Recommended: Regular Plurals: I Have, Who Has for Summer Cards, and super easy no-prep worksheets to teach plural endings and answering who and what questions. I have a shell, who has shells? PK to 2nd grade

9. From Laura at All Y’all Need

The freebie: Draw a Bug Game Collect each bug as you practice any goal and draw it in your bug jar or cage.

Recommended: Summer Scenes for Pronouns Work on pronouns, possessives, articulation or spatial concepts with scenes for Beach/Ocean, Camping, Pirates, Park, and Fourth of July.

10. From AGB Speech Therapy

The Freebie: Preposition Playground- “Behind” Have fun as you head to the playground and practice answering “where” questions with the concept of “behind”.

Recommended: Camping is Fun! Level 1 Read this simple story with repetitive text. Build vocabulary and associations as you talk about the items you need on a camping trip.