It can be a challenge to stay motivated to plan during the cold winter months. I am here to help with several low prep ideas that will take moments to prep but tons of fun!

Motivation is often low during the winter, so keep these low prep speech therapy ideas in mind! You have lots of resources to use already in your room!

Why low prep therapy?

Sometimes we need to just grab items we have around our therapy rooms and use them with our students. We don’t want to spend a ton of time laminating or prepping but we want our students motivated to participate.

What are some fun, easy to implement winter themes?

Snowmen
Snowflakes
Hot chocolate
Winter sports
Penguins
Winter clothes

Ready for some low prep fun?! In no particular order…

Snowman File Folder Barrier Games

Barrier games are great for working on listening comprehension, following directions, vocabulary, sentence structure and more! You can grab file folders and use them to have students provide clues to each other on how to create a snowman (easy to draw and something relevant to the season). Learn more about this idea by CLICKING HERE!

Motivation is often low during the winter, so keep these low prep speech therapy ideas in mind! You have lots of resources to use already in your room!

Winter Foldables

Foldables are great for working on main idea and sequencing, All you need it a piece of paper, scissors, and pencils/markers/crayons. Students can draw their main idea on the front and in each flap write the different steps on how to achieve a task. You can provide students with the main idea, have them pick from choices, or let it be open-ended with a winter theme. They can draw/write about making a snowman, making hot chocolate, shoveling snow, getting dressed for winter, having a snow day, and more!

Motivation is often low during the winter, so keep these low prep speech therapy ideas in mind! You have lots of resources to use already in your room!

Winter themed compare/contrast

You can take any Venn diagram or even just make one quickly on a piece of paper, dry erase board, or poster board. You can have students compare:

polar bears and penguins
skiing and snowboarding
hot chocolate and coffee
gloves and mittens
hat and earmuffs
sweater and coat
snow and hail
snow and rain
and more!

Motivation is often low during the winter, so keep these low prep speech therapy ideas in mind! You have lots of resources to use already in your room!

Snowman Describing

Do you have students working on adjectives? Grab a piece of paper and markers and they can easily work on describing or using adjectives. All they have to do is draw their on snowmen on their paper and then write various describing words right inside the snowman!

Motivation is often low during the winter, so keep these low prep speech therapy ideas in mind! You have lots of resources to use already in your room!

The Melting Snowman

Have you heard of the amazing and highly motivating melting snowman toy? You can work on sequencing, predicting, describing with this awesome toy. Click HERE to learn more ways to use this toy in speech therapy.

Motivation is often low during the winter, so keep these low prep speech therapy ideas in mind! You have lots of resources to use already in your room!

As you can see, speech doesn’t need to require a ton of prep time in order for it to be fun and functional. You can easily use what you have and work on a TON of speech goals!