Fresh Speech Therapy Ideas for Spring: Read Sheep in a Shop

Are you ready for your spring speech therapy sessions?

I’ve happily put away my winter activities, and am so very ready for new speech therapy ideas for spring. How about you?

I’m linking up with the Frenzied SLPs to bring you lots of great ideas. I have a fun spring activity for you, and I can’t wait to see what everyone else has to share.

Be sure to check out each spring blog post that you’ll find at the bottom of this post, and you should get plenty of spring inspiration.

Perfect for preschool speech therapy: Read Sheep in a Shop

I love the “Sheep” series by Margot Apple. We’ve read Sheep in a Jeep and Sheep on a Ship. They’re sound-loaded with the “sh” phoneme of course, so we work on the articulation of stridents. These books also have a fun storyline with rhyming text. Each story includes a silly mishap, and my children love it. This week we read Sheep in a Shop.

The sheep need to buy a birthday gift, so they head to the shop. But what to buy? They try out everything in the shop, wreaking havoc as they go. They finally make their decision, but not before making a stack of balls come tumbling down on them.

The problem is, they don’t have enough money to pay for their purchase. What to do? Why, shear each other and pay with wool of course.

Speech therapy targets you can address with Sheep in a Shop.

There are plenty of articulation and language opportunities in this story, especially:
1. The “sh” phoneme: sheep, shop, sheer
2. Regular plurals and final clusters: rackets, rockets, blocks, clocks, pockets, trains, planes
3. Rhyming words

Here’s an easy spring sheep craft for preschool speech therapy

After reading the story, we had to make our own spring lamb. I always make a sample ahead of time with crafts, then have the children predict what they will need, make a request for each item, describe what they are doing (cutting, gluing), and then re-tell what they did.

To make this sheep you’ll need:

1. A small paper plate or white construction paper circle about 5″ in diameter
2. Cotton balls- I cut them in half to make them go further
3. Black construction paper- you will cut out one head and two legs. I pre-cut them for my pre-schoolers
4. Wiggle eyes
5. Ribbon for a bow.-you may want to pre-make these for young children.
6. White glue

Assembly is easy.

Glue the head and legs on the back of the circle. Add a wiggle eye. Now it’s time to add the cotton balls.

Here’s how to get plenty of repetitions of your speech therapy targets.

You keep control of the cotton balls and get additional practice opportunities by requiring the children to say one of their articulation words or other targets before giving them each cotton ball to glue. I like to have my articulation children repeat their target words 5-10 times for each cotton ball. That’s a lot of practice!

Here are a few of our sweet creations!

Need more speech therapy ideas for spring? Check out these Speech Sprouts posts:

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