Are you on the lookout for fresh and engaging spring speech therapy activities? You’ve come to the right place! I’ve compiled a giant list of ideas to help you plan your March, April, and May speech therapy sessions. Whether you’re searching for easy crafts, book companions, or a list of spring themes to use in therapy, this guide has you covered. Let’s plant some speech and language skills this spring!
Spring Themes for Speech Therapy
Spring is my favorite season! From cuddly baby animals to butterflies fluttering around, I absolutely love this time of year. Spring is a wonderful theme in and of itself, but there are also so many fun spring speech therapy themes to explore, from buzzing bugs to blooming gardens and adorable bunnies.
Using seasonal themes is one of my favorite ways to keep students engaged, so this section is a round-up of all the ideas I’ve curated over the years. Please don’t feel overwhelmed—think of this as inspiration! Pick a couple of themes to add to your spring speech therapy lesson plans, then save the rest for next year.
I’ve been creating speech therapy materials for many years, so put on your rain boots and jump in!
Garden Themed Speech Therapy Activities
Gardening has long been my favorite hobby and it makes for the perfect spring theme! There are so many language concepts that can be explored. You can talk about the parts of a plant (labeling parts is a huge component of describing), the lifecycle of a plant (perfect for targeting sequencing skills), and object-functions!
Check out my garden themed speech therapy blog post for an extensive list of ideas and resources!
My Spring Interactive Articulation Notebook features some great garden themed activities too!
Bug Themed Speech Therapy Activities
I don’t know what it is, but there’s just something so fun about bugs! Kids love creepy crawlies, from ladybugs to dragonflies. This theme is perfect for targeting skills like describing, categorizing, and comparing and contrasting, because there are so many different types of bugs to explore. I even have an entire blog post dedicated to bug-themed speech therapy activities if you’re looking for more ideas!
I love this theme so much that I even wrote an entire blog post dedicated to ladybug-themed speech therapy activities! One of the fun things about bug themes is that you can really take a deep dive. You might start with a broad bug theme, then spend each week exploring a specific insect like ladybugs, bees, or butterflies. I’m hoping to write more posts about bees and butterflies later this year—clearly I’m a little obsessed, haha! I just love incorporating science whenever possible.
Bunny Themed Speech Therapy
Nothing says spring quite like a bunny! These adorable animals are one of the most recognizable symbols of the season. Bunny themes are perfect for spring speech therapy because they connect naturally to other seasonal topics like gardens, baby animals, and of course Easter.
Over the years, I’ve created several different bunny-themed speech therapy activities that are perfect for targeting articulation and language goals while keeping students engaged with a fun spring theme.
Bunny Articulation Activities
These worksheets feature the cutest bunnies! You can turn these into a game by having students cover them in mini-erasers or pom-poms. You can also slip them into dry erase sleeves to create play-doh smash mats!
Too Many Carrots Book Activities
Too Many Carrots by Katy Hudson is a fun and engaging picture book about a rabbit who loves carrots a little too much! When his carrot collection takes over his home, Rabbit visits several animal friends looking for a place to stay. This charming story is perfect for targeting sequencing, problem solving, and friendship while enjoying a fun spring-themed read aloud. You can find this book companion in my TPT store or in my membership for pediatric speech-language pathologists, The Speech is Sweet Club!
You can find more bunny-themed ideas in my Easter Speech Therapy Activities blog post!
Spring Speech Therapy Activities
As SLPs, we wear so many hats (or should I say spring bonnets?). With caseloads growing continuously, we’re always juggling a wide variety of goals. Whether your students are working on language skills or speech sounds, in small groups or mixed groups, I’ve got resources to help make your spring speech therapy sessions both meaningful and memorable.
Spring AAC and Literacy Activities
I’ve created AAC book companions for many beloved spring picture books, so you’ll be set all season long! These resources make it easy to target core vocabulary, comprehension, and retelling while keeping your students engaged with fun seasonal themes. From stories about busy bugs to adventures in blooming gardens, you’ll love these AAC and literacy resources!
Inside The Speech is Sweet Club, you’ll find AAC companions for books like Too Many Carrots, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog, and Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms. Each companion includes story boards, retelling strips, communication pictures, file folder games, and comprehension cards—everything you need to bring spring vocabulary to life in your speech room! Here’s a list of all of my spring AAC and literacy resources:
Spring AAC Book Companions
My seasonal bundle features three full volumes of spring book companions!
- Spring Volume One
- Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson
- Too Many Carrots by Katy Hudson
- Thundercake by Patricia Polacco
- Hedgehugs by Steve Wilson and Lucy Tapper
- Spring Volume Two
- Hedgehugs and the Hattiepillar by Steve Wilson and Lucy Tapper
- Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms by Julia Rawlinson
- Mouse’s First Spring by Lauren Thompson
- Little Blue Truck in Springtime by Alice Shertle
- Spring Volume Three
- Hotel Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
- Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
- My Garden by Kevin Henkes
- There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog by Jennifer Ward
AAC and Literacy for the Year 1st Edition
AAC and Literacy for the Year bundle features an entire year’s worth of book companions! Here is a quick list of the spring books!
- March First Edition (also in a bundle)
- A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
- Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
- April First Edition
- Bugs, Bugs, Bugs by Bob Barner
- The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins
- May First Edition
- There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Frog by Lucille Colandro
- Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
- In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
AAC and Literacy for the Year 2nd Edition
The second edition bundle features some more spring companions!
- March Second Edition
- When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes
- April Second Edition
- Bruce’s Big Storm by Ryan T. Higgins
- Bear Can’t Wait by Karma Wilson
- Carrot Soup by John Segal
- May Second Edition
- Bug Soup by Vince Cleghorn
- Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
Spring Apraxia Activities
Over the years, I’ve created a wide variety of apraxia resources—like Apraxia on the Go, Apraxia Snip and Stick, Apraxia Printables, and Apraxia Interactive Notebooks. Spring is the perfect time to use the seasonal packets to keep your sessions both effective and engaging. Let’s take a peek inside and see how these activities can bring a little springtime fun to apraxia practice!
Apraxia on the Go Worksheets and Games
March, April, and May packets all feature no prep worksheets and games containing a spring theme!
Spring Apraxia Printables
Gotta love a no prep worksheet! Use these as classic coloring pages or bust out the bingo daubers or watercolors! These spring coloring pages (and all of my apraxia resources) address eight different syllable patterns: CV, VC, CVC, CVCV, CVCVC, CVCVCV, CCVC, and CVCC.
Spring Snip and Stick Apraxia
Color, cut, and glue activities are my jam! I love keeping little hands busy and these are a great way for students to practice their fine motor skills too!
Spring Articulation Activities
Take a look at this round-up of spring-themed articulation activities I’ve gathered for your speech room:
- Spring Color, Cut, and Glue Activities
- Rainy Articulation
- Spring Articulation Vocabulary Books
- Spring Articulation Counting Books
- Bee Articulation
- Bug Articulation Notebook
- Garden Articulation
- Spring Spin-Go Games
- March Articulation Game Boards
- April Articulation Game Boards
- May Articulation Game Boards
Spring Language Activities
Need spring resources for your language groups? Whether you’re working on WH questions, describing, or grammar, these resources will make your planning easy!
Spring Describing Activities
Describing is such an important (and complex!) skill. It draws on background knowledge, categorization, vocabulary, and more. Whenever possible, I love incorporating seasonal vocabulary into therapy because it’s meaningful, relevant, and gives children multiple opportunities for exposure. The spring edition is packed with engaging vocabulary words, worksheets, and task cards to help grow your students’ descriptive language skills! There are also pages to aid in sentence formulation this spring season!
If you need visuals, handouts, and data sheets for describing? Check out my blog post, Describing Activities for Speech Therapy!
A Dab of Speech and Language
This series is perfect for mixed groups, as they address articulation, language, and fluency! The March edition features spring and St. Patrick’s Day themes, April features a rainy theme, and May features a bug theme! These also include open-ended sheets that can be used to address any skill.
Spring WH Questions Short Stories
Need some spring language activities that cover WH questions? These stories are “question-loaded” so that students can get many repetitions with answering questions. There are stories that focus on each individual question, plus stories that are designed to target all of the questions! The March, April, and May packets all feature a variety of spring themes. These can be found inside a bundle – a great resource for language therapy!
Spring Receptive Language
These spring-themed activities address a variety of receptive language skills including answering WH questions, temporal directions, What Doesn’t Belong riddles, and more! This packet covers many language concepts! These can also be found in The Speech is Sweet Club (a membership for pediatric speech-language pathologists)!
Spring Expressive Language
Do you have students working on comparing/contrasting, describing, irregular plurals, or pronouns?! They’ll love these low prep speech therapy activities inside this packet! It features card games and no prep pages. It also addresses synonyms, antonyms, multiple meaning words, and analogies!
Spring Barrier Games
These are perfect for working on spatial concepts, basic concepts, following directions, and spring vocabulary! I love barrier games!
Spring Phonology Activities
My Phonology on the Fly Bundle is packed with games, worksheets, interactive notebook activities, and more for practicing minimal pairs! These no-prep activities make it easy (and fun) to target phonological processes during your sessions. Let’s peek inside the May edition! It features bugs and frogs (as well as some year-round pages).
Spring Stuttering Activities
My Fluency in a Snap series includes an entire year’s worth of no-prep stuttering activities and games! The March, April, and May editions feature a variety of spring speech therapy activities!
Spring Books for Speech Therapy
Books are my favorite therapy tools! They spark so much language and make literacy-based therapy both engaging and effective. Over the years, I’ve created a whole library of spring-themed book companions to make your planning easier and your sessions more meaningful. And yes—every single one is included in The Speech is Sweet Club! Here’s a quick list of spring book companions your students will love:
- Hedgehugs and the Hattiepillar – blog post
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog – a great book for sequencing!
- March Literature Flip Books – blog post
- April Literature Flip Books – blog post
- May Literature Flip Books – blog post
- March Lit Flips 2nd Edition (also in a bundle)
- April Lit Flips 2nd Edition
- May Lit Flips 2nd Edition
Are you a book-loving speech-language pathologist too?! There are just so many great spring picture books and they’re great for push-in lessons!
Easy Crafts for Spring Speech Therapy
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m really not crafty! I love incorporating crafts into speech therapy though, because they’re hands-on and very engaging! Students also love taking home a fun memento to show off to their families. To combat my lack of craftiness, I’ve made a ton of no prep/low prep crafts over the years!
No Prep Speech Therapy Crafts
These craft activities are my best-sellers! The March, April, and May editions all feature a variety of spring themes (spring holidays, Easter eggs, spring flowers, etc). I have also made a second edition bundle with even more spring crafts! These are great for mixed groups, because they address all speech sounds, a variety of language targets, apraxia, and stuttering.
Spring Word List Crafts
These crafts are super simple! Students just color and cut and voila! They can also be glued into an interactive notebook! These crafts feature spring themed vocabulary words to target articulation, language, and fluency! These activities also make great reference pages for your speech sessions. Need quick spring-themed word lists? This is a great solution!
Articulation Bouquets
This bundle features two different versions – a builder craft edition and a super simple edition (and both editions feature different target words). These would be ideal for a spring-themed bulletin board! It could say “Our Speech is in Bloom” or “A Bouquet of Speech!” These activities cover all articulation targets in the initial, medial, and final positions.
Rainbow Craft
You can also use the target word circles found in the no prep speech therapy craft packets to make paper plate crafts (or any type of craft)! My Dice Drills packet is also great if you want square shaped word targets that are easy to cut out! You can find directions for this craft in my Rainbow Speech Therapy Craft blog post!
The Speech is Sweet Club also has a variety of spring speech therapy crafts that are exclusive to members!
Spring Speech Therapy Activities Conclusion
I hope this massive round-up of spring speech therapy activities has been helpful! Feel free to revisit it anytime—think of it as your go-to hub for inspiration whenever you’re planning your March, April, and May speech therapy sessions. I’ll continue updating this post as I create new spring resources and add even more seasonal ideas, so you can freshen up your lesson plans year after year!
Don’t forget, all of the resources featured in this post can be found inside my membership designed just for SLPs—The Speech is Sweet Club! The resources inside can be used in a variety of settings, whether you’re in a private practice, school, or leading teletherapy sessions.
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Here’s to a season filled with blooming ideas, buzzing bugs, and joyful sessions in your speech room!
