Fun Easter Speech Therapy Activities for Engaging & Effective Sessions
- alykomerch
- Mar 20
- 5 min read
Posted on March 20th, 2025
Easter is a great time to bring a little extra fun into your speech therapy sessions! Whether you're working with students on speech sounds, language goals, or social skills, incorporating Easter-themed games can help make learning enjoyable. In this blog post, I'll share some fun and creative Easter speech therapy game ideas to keep your students engaged while targeting their speech and language goals.
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1. Easter Egg Hunt with Speech Targets
An Easter egg hunt is a classic activity, and it’s easy to adapt it for speech therapy! Here's how you can incorporate speech targets:
Set-Up: Hide plastic Easter eggs around the therapy room or outdoor area. Each egg contains a slip of paper with a speech sound or language target (e.g., "say the word 'car' five times," "describe the picture in this egg," or "tell a story about an Easter bunny").
Game Play: Students take turns finding eggs and completing the speech task inside. For each egg, they have to produce the target sound, answer a question, or follow an instruction before they can open the egg.
Targets: This activity works well for articulation, vocabulary building, following directions, and even social communication!
2. Easter Bunny Relay Race
A relay race is an exciting and active way to practice speech skills. Here's how to turn it into an Easter-themed game:
Set-Up: Use small Easter baskets or bags as “bunny ears.” Place a series of speech cards or task cards across the room or in a designated area. Each card will contain a word, sentence, or prompt related to a speech goal (e.g., say a sentence with "hop," describe an Easter egg, or use an adjective to describe a bunny).
Game Play: Students take turns "hopping" to the cards, picking one, and returning to their team to perform the task on the card. The team that finishes the relay race with all tasks completed correctly wins the game.
Targets: This game is great for practicing articulation, sentence formation, following directions, and vocabulary development.
3. Easter Bingo
Bingo is a versatile game that can be adapted for nearly any speech goal. Here's how you can use it in an Easter theme:
Set-Up: Create Bingo cards filled with Easter-related pictures (bunny, egg, basket, chick, etc.). You can either create your own cards or find printable versions online.
Game Play: As you call out words or show pictures related to the cards (e.g., “find the egg,” “find the bunny”), students will mark the corresponding picture or word on their card. To make it more engaging, have students use their target speech sounds or phrases when they land on a picture.
Targets: This game works well for phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and following instructions. You can also add in language-building prompts like, "Tell me about your favorite Easter candy" for extra speaking practice.
4. Easter Egg Roll for Articulation
A simple, interactive game to practice articulation targets is the Easter egg roll!
Set-Up: You'll need plastic Easter eggs, a small basket, and a smooth surface (like a table or the floor). Write your student’s target words or sounds on the eggs (e.g., for /s/ sounds, write “sun,” “sock,” “sand” on the eggs).
Game Play: Students roll the eggs toward the basket while saying the word they’ve chosen. To increase the challenge, you can make it a timed event where they try to roll the eggs into the basket within a certain time frame while saying the words correctly.
Targets: This game is excellent for practicing articulation, fluency, and motor coordination.
5. Easter Egg Toss
This is a fun game that promotes both physical activity and speech practice.
Set-Up: Use a basket or a container to collect Easter eggs (plastic eggs or even bean bags) and mark targets or areas around the room with different speech tasks (e.g., “say a word with the /k/ sound,” “tell me about your favorite Easter tradition”).
Game Play: Students take turns tossing eggs into the containers, and when they make a successful toss, they have to complete the speech task associated with that target area.
Targets: This game is great for articulation practice, narrative language, and sentence structure.
6. Easter Storytelling with Picture Cards
Use Easter-themed picture cards to encourage creativity and language development with storytelling!
Set-Up: Use a deck of Easter-themed picture cards that include images of bunnies, eggs, baskets, chicks, etc. You can find printable sets or create your own.
Game Play: Students draw a card and use the image to tell a short story or create a sentence. You can provide prompts like, “What do you think this bunny is doing?” or “Describe what’s in the Easter basket.”
Targets: This activity is great for improving vocabulary, sentence structure, and narrative skills.
This is an easy and effective game for building vocabulary and matching skills, perfect for younger children or students working on language concepts.
Set-Up: Create two sets of Easter egg cards, each with an image or word on it. You can use words that match with pictures (e.g., a picture of an egg and the word “egg” or a picture of a chick and the word “chick”).
Game Play: Students take turns picking up cards and trying to find a matching pair (e.g., egg-picture with egg-word). For each match, they must say the word or describe the picture in a sentence.
Targets: This game helps with vocabulary building, matching skills, and basic sentence formation.
8. Easter Egg Craft and Labeling
This activity combines creativity and speech practice.
Set-Up: Have students decorate wooden Easter egg ornaments with stickers, markers, or paint. Once the eggs are decorated, students can label their eggs with specific speech targets, such as words with certain speech sounds or descriptions.
Game Play: After the crafts are complete, have students present their decorated eggs to the class, describing the design, colors, or any relevant details while practicing specific speech sounds or language skills.
Targets: This is great for expressive language skills, describing, and articulation.
Conclusion
Incorporating Easter-themed games into your speech therapy sessions can bring some holiday fun while helping your students reach their goals. Whether you’re working on articulation, vocabulary, storytelling, or social skills, these Easter speech therapy game ideas provide a variety of ways to engage your students and make learning enjoyable. Use these games as a springboard to get creative, and remember to tailor the activities to meet your students’ specific needs and goals!
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Hi! I’m Kim, and I’ve been a licensed Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLPA) for nearly a decade. I have a B.S. in Speech-Language Pathology and have worked in elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools, providing services to students in general education and special day classes. I created this blog to share my experiences and help other SLPAs navigate their school-based speech therapy journey.
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