There’s just something about the longer days, warmer temperatures, and all the flowers starting to bloom that makes you smile. We’re sharing some low-prep, easy March speech and OT activities that are perfect for co-treating and are sure to bring smiles to your therapy room!
Here’s a peek into speech and motor groups and everything you need to plan out your co-treat groups for the entire month. We like to incorporate a song, a book, and a game or a craft into our groups.
March Themed Songs
We typically start our co-treat sessions with song. These March themed songs will have your students up and moving while encouraging language. Encourage your students to act out the songs to incorporate bilateral coordination, following directions, and crossing midline.
- Springtime Dance by Jack Hartmann
- Spring is Here by The Learning Station
- Five Little Ducks by The Learning Station
- Spread a Little Sunshine by Jack Hartmann
March Themed Books
When choosing books for our speech and OT groups, we look for books that provide lots of language opportunities but also include opportunities for incorporating motor movements. Here are a few books we like to read in March:
- Little Quack by Lauren Thompson (Great for working on counting, prepositions, size, describing, and sequencing)
- There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover by Lucille Colandro (Good for working on vocabulary, sequencing, answering wh-questions, describing, and comparing/contrasting)
- Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase by James Dean
- Duck on a Bike (Perfect for making simple predictions, answering wh-questions, describing, comparing contrasting, vocabulary, categories {i.e. animals, vehicles, etc.], animal sounds, and adjectives)
- How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace
March Speech, Language, & Writing Activities
These March themed speech and fine motor activities are engaging and easy to use. Your students will love them!
1. Spring Color and Describe. Learning and mastering descriptive writing can be a struggle. Your students will love these engaging writing sheets that include visual prompts to help them write spicy sentences loaded with description. As a bonus, students can warm up their hands by practicing fine motor control for grading pressure to coloring in the pictures!
2. Spring Speech and Language Activities. This oh-so-helpful spring speech and language resource is loaded with 80 pages of fun, easy-to-use, and little-to-no prep spring activities that are designed to help your students review, practice, and improve their articulation skills, expressive language skills, and receptive language skills.
3. Spring Language Activities. Distinguishing between have and has can be tricky. In order to improve sentence structure, students, need to be able to use negation and distinguish between have/has. Your students will love these easy-to-use, NO PREP, digital task cards and will have your students practicing and mastering these skills in no time at all!
4. Shamrock Search & Write. Keep working on letter formulation with this fun Shamrock Search and Find worksheet. Mixing in themed activities can make handwriting practice more exciting for students! Search for the letters, trace the letter, and trace and color the clover before having students practice writing each letter or a word that begins with letter they find.
Click HERE to get your FREE copy!
March Games
Here are some fun, interactive, open-ended games that are great for targeting turn-taking, asking and answering questions, sentence formulation and expansion, carryover of articulation, describing, or perfect as reinforcers.
- St. Patrick’s Day Bingo FREEBIE
- Guess the Unicorn St. Patrick’s Day Boom Cards™ Guessing Game
- Guess the Rabbit Boom Cards™ Guessing Game
- Apples to Apples
- Let’s Go Fishing
- Lucky Ducks
March Craft Ideas
Crafts are a great way to engage your students while working on following directions, sentence formulation and expansion, adjectives, requesting, asking questions, fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, and/or articulation targets. Here are a few ideas for March crafts:
- Paper Cup Flower
- Fruit Loops and Marshmallows Rainbow
- Contact Paper Flowers
Materials needed to make Paper Cup Flowers: paper cup, scissors, glue, construction paper, markers, glitter, buttons, or any other decorative items
Materials needed to make Contact Paper Flowers: Construction paper, coffee filter, glitter, scissors and watercolors
Materials needed to make Fruit Loops Rainbows: Fruit Loops, large marshmallows, and pipe cleaners
Looking for MORE March Fun?
- Spring Speech and Language Activities for Speech Therapy
- Spring Fluency Activities for Speech Therapy
- St. Patrick’s Day Language Activities Boom Cards™ for Speech Therapy
- Spring Self Regulation Activities
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