Halloween is children’s most favorite holiday of the year. It’s all the costumes, all the candies and scary yet magical decorations that have this amazing effect on children. They just simply love the spirit of Halloween and get so excited talking about it.
My own kids started talking about Halloween at least a month ago and they inspired me to write this very blog. They talk about costumes- the ones they like and the ones they don’t like. They make their own costumes out of blankets and hats and toiler paper and then just laugh and goof around. They ask me to stop at almost every single house that’s Halloween ready on the way to school and comment on all the funny and creepy decorations. I turn on my scary voice and they pretend to be scared. They bring fun Halloween artwork form school and proudly talk about it.
So many speech and language opportunities during this time of the year! Think about all the s-blends and concepts, vocabulary, describing that we can target around this holiday!
Here are a few Halloween activities for both brick and molar speech therapy and teletherapy (telepractice). The below activities are open ended and you can use them to practice describing, answering questions, predicting, inference, story retelling, problem solving, etc.
”Curious George - Pumpkin Educational Halloween Video Story For Children English”
Note: If you’re using TheraPlatform, simply copy and paste the title of the YouTube videos to TheraPlatform and you’ll be able to watch them with your clients or students.
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