Happy October, Happy Fall, & Happy Halloween!! Please continue to check my Pinterest page (Spik My Language board) for fun Halloween & Fall activities & festive projects to stimulate speech and language skills. I have listed a couple of ideas below to get you started. Enjoy :)1. Puppet Show: Make puppets out of old, clean socks, or brown paper bags, and use them as imaginary friends and for modeling sounds, words, and phrases. Have fun decorating the puppets, talk about all of the facial features needed, colors of the decorations, textures, sizes, etc.
2. Pumpkin Patch: Visit the local pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins. Discuss weight, size, colors, shapes, etc. Look out for other harvest items as well. Consider making fun foods such as pumpkin cookies, pumpkin pie, butternut squash, etc. Have fun collecting and counting pumpkin seeds if you carve them, etc. This activity can also take a multi-sensory approach to learning as you practice gross motor skills while exploring the pumpkin patch and experience textures, smells, fine motor skills, etc.
3. "I Spy Fall": Go on a walk each day. Discuss the weather, look for different colored leaves and count how many you can collect. Identify and label about all of the Halloween decorations in your neighborhood, colors of the lights, count how many people have pumpkins, etc. This activity can also incorporate a multi-sensory approach to learning.
