Speech and Language Activities for Valentine’s Day
Here are a few of my favorite children’s books to share during February for Valentine’s Day:
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose by Lucilla Colandro
- The Night Before Valentine’s Day by Natasha Wing
- Turkey’s Valentine Surprise by Wendi Silvano
- The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond
- Little Blue Truck’s Valentine by Alice Schertle & Jill McElmurry
- Love Monster by Rachel Bright
- Grumpy Monkey: Valentine Gross Out by Suzanne Lang
- Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse by Laura Numeroff
Activities for Speech Sound Disorder / Articulation Therapy
- /k/ - candy, card, cupcake, chocolate, cookie
- /v/ - valentine, envelope
- /l/ - love, like, lollipop, valentine, lace, mail, letter, glue, chocolate, mailbox, envelope
- /r/ - red, rose, heart, card, friend, paper, scissors
- /s/ - send, stamp, scissors, mailbox
Use a toy mailbox or empty box with a lid to “mail” your speech sound cards
Write target sounds, words, and/or sentences on hearts and glue to a piece of paper
Valentine’s Day Speech Sound Targets:
Valentine’s Day Language Activities
- Make your own cards for Valentine’s Day – sequence steps, describe materials needed, write a kind message, etc. (see TPT Resource below)
- Valentine’s Day Bingo (see FREE resource below)
- Heart Idioms (see TPT resource below)
- Valentine’s Day Inference Clues (see TPT resource below)