Hop Into Spring with a Frog Theme!
With the first day of spring right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to jump into some new seasonal themes! Today’s blog post is all about a toad-ally fun frog theme, featuring engaging books and activities to make your speech therapy sessions both educational and exciting!
Frog Books for Speech Therapy
Books are an excellent tool for mixed groups because they allow you to target a variety of speech and language skills, including:
Answering questions
Vocabulary development
Sequencing and retelling
Making inferences and predictions
Listening comprehension
Reading for details
I have listed some of my favorite frog-themed books below. These books offer engaging stories and rich language opportunities to help your students strengthen their communication skills:
– Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan: This story includes the repeated text, “Jump, Frog, Jump!”. This is a great book for practicing sequencing, verbs, and prepositions.
– The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner: In this book, Frog meets other animals and learns what they eat. This funny pop-up book can be used to address sequencing, describing, and predicting.
– Froggy Learns to Swim by Jonathan London (and all of the other Froggy books!): Froggy is afraid to swim but he overcomes his fears with a little encouragement and a silly song. Children love the sound effects and call-response opportunities in the book. This book is also great for character analysis, making inferences, and sequencing/retelling the steps to swim.
– Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel : A wonderful book that celebrates the power of friendship and what it means to be a friend. Also sparks discussions about perspective taking and problem solving.
– I Don’t Want to be a Frog by Dev Petty : A sweet story about valuing and accepting ourselves the way we are. A great book for celebrating our diversity and comparing/contrasting different animals.
Fun Frog-Themed Speech Therapy Activities
1. Feed the Frog Game (pictured above): Have students feed the frog some flies while practicing their target words. For an extra hands-on element, attach velcro to the flies and use a fly swatter to pick them up! Includes practice for M, N, P, B, T, D, K, G, F, V, S, Z, L, SH, CH, TH, R, blends, and Vocalic R (ER, EAR, AIR, IRE, AR, OR).
2. Frog Spinner Craft: This frog themed speech and language craft targets both articulation and language skills. Includes crafts to target articulation skills (K, G, F, V, S, Z, SH, CH, TH, L & R (including vocalic R and blends), syllable shapes (CV, CVC, CVCV, multisyllabic words), vocabulary (insects, spring, summer), and actions.
3. Frog Hop Articulation Activity: Get your students moving by hopping from one lily pad to another while practicing speech sounds (M, N, P, B, T, D, K, G, F, V, S, Z, L, SH, CH, TH, R, blends, and Vocalic R (ER, EAR, AIR, IRE, AR, OR). Great for a spring obstacle course or movement break.
3. Frog Bean Bags (see photo at top of this blog post): Throw these froggy bean bags onto stimulus cards for a fun activity that gets your students up and moving. You can also pair the frog hop lily pads mentioned above with frog bean bags.
4. Plastic Frog Hoppers: Have plastic frog hoppers jump onto stimulus cards or pair with the frog hop lily pads.
5. Wind up Frogs: Add some fun to your speech therapy sessions with wind up frogs. If you use a tray, the frogs will stay on the table and you can have them move around and hop onto stimulus cards or a frog themed worksheet. These frogs are also great for your AAC users to practice core words (go, help, jump, more, etc).
Digital Frog-Themed Activities
If you’re in need of digital resources, I have two frog-themed Boom Card activities perfect for virtual or in-person sessions. Click below to learn more and add some interactive fun to your therapy sessions!
- Frog Match Memory Games: Includes memory games to practice K, G, F, V, S, Z, SH, CH, TH, L, R, L Blends, S Blends, and R Blends.
- Feed the Frog Articulation Activity: Feed the frog some bugs as you practice your speech words! M, N, P, B, T, D, K, G, F, V, S, Z, SH, CH, TH, L, & R (including vocalic ER, AR, OR, AIR, EAR/IRE). It also includes L blends, R blends, and S blends.
FREE Frog Pond Sample Pages
Looking for a quick and easy print-and-go activity? These FREE Frog Pond activity pages (pictured above) focus on /s/ and /z/ sounds in all positions, including blends. Students can use:
Dot markers
Stamps
Magnetic chips
Game pieces
Stickers
Mini erasers
Download your freebie and add some springtime fun to your sessions!
If you enjoy these free sample pages, you will love the complete Frog Pond resource, which includes articulation practice for M, N, P, B, T, D, K, G, F, V, S, Z, SH, CH, J, TH, L & R (including vocalic R and blends). Find it HERE
Your Turn!
I hope these frog-themed books and activities bring a little extra fun to your speech therapy sessions this spring! Let me know in the comments – what’s your favorite frog-themed book or activity?
