Snow-Themed Activities for Winter Speech Therapy

While the winter season may bring cold weather (and illness 😕) to many of us, it also offers tons of fun themes you can weave right into your speech therapy lesson plans. And the best part? You and your students won’t have to bundle up or feel a single shiver to enjoy them.

In this blog post, we’re diving into a simple and fun winter theme you won’t want to skip—snow! Brighten the dreary winter months in your speech therapy sessions with activities built around a theme that’s all too familiar for many of us (and wonderfully intriguing for students in warmer climates).

Snow Themed Activities for Speech Therapy

These snow-themed activities are completely no-prep and fully digital, making them perfect for your (in-person or virtual) therapy room. Whether you're targeting specific speech sounds, winter vocabulary, grammar, or broader language skills, these fun activities are a great way to make planning easy and keep students motivated all season long.

PDF Activities

This PDF is the ultimate mixed group activity! It is full of interactive elements (such as check boxes and clickable buttons) to keep students engaged in the 6 included activities. SLPs can address comprehension, basic concepts, vocabulary, formulating sentences, and more with this one snow-themed resource.

And while we're talking about targeting multiple goals with small groups– If you own these one-page picture scenes, you know how easy it is to use with both articulation and language students. A couple of pages contain a snowy scene with prompts right on the page for commonly targeted speech and language goals.

Boom™ Card Decks

Two sections of this versatile Boom Card deck (get it here on Boom) tie in perfectly with a snow theme, too! Your students will love exploring the snowy scenes to winter words, including the option to search a darkened scene with a digital flashlight!

This language and reading comprehension deck (get it here on Boom) has an informational passage and a short story, both with the theme of snow. These texts are the perfect way to engage language students as you get some quality data on comprehension questions!

And since we're talking about helpful tools for progress monitoring in language therapy this winter, check out this following directions deck (get it here on Boom)! You can also use it to target location, quantity, negation, and spatial concepts using winter vocabulary and concepts.

Books

Search the following winter-themed book titles/authors wherever you access digital versions of books (your local library, YouTube, websites, online stores, etc.). These children's books would make great additions to your snow theme, while supporting literacy and giving plenty of ways to target speech and language.

• Brave Irene by William Steig

• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

• First Snow by Bomi Park

• In the Snow by Elizabeth Spurr

• Snow by Uri Shulevitz

• No Two Snowflakes by Sheree Fitch

• Once Upon a Snowstorm by Richard Johnson

• When the Snow Falls by Linda Booth Sweeney

• We're Going on a Bear Hunt: Snow Globe Edition by Michael Rosen

• A Loud Winter's Nap by Katy Hudson

Videos

• This short video by National Geographic Kids provides a few interesting facts about snow, and this one (also by National Geographic Kids) teaches about blizzards.

• This video (made by Free School) tells about how snow is made.

• Simon's Cat videos are always a hit, and this one gives a cat's viewpoint of the fluffy white stuff (great for perspective-taking).

• This Sesame Street video shows clips of kids sledding and talking about snow.

Other Snow-Themed Games & Activities

• Toy Theater has a snowy hidden picture that's great for targeting tons of language goals.

• Highlights also has this hidden picture activity on their website.

• ABCYa.com's interactive snowball activity allows students to use their imaginations as they move 100 snowballs around the winter scene.

• Fill-in-the-blank stories literally never get old, and a few of them in this winter-themed packet definitely bring the snow theme! Pair them with sound-specific word lists, and you've got yourself my favorite therapy activity. 😂

  
  

• This website allows students to make their own paper snowflakes... digitally! The best part? No picking up tiny pieces of paper off the floor!

• As always, thecolor.com is a great site for digital coloring. They have pictures of sledding, snowball fights, and a winter wonderland!

• Sheppard Software offers 5 winter scene creators that are great for eliciting language and winter words related to animals, clothing, snowmen, etc.

• Here's a quick memory game on matchthememory.com that uses real photos of snowy activities.

Activities for Older Students

Snow isn't just a relevant theme for elementary students. Even your middle school and high school students will enjoy the topic.

• This article on Readworks.org discusses the possibility of using "E-days" (electronic workdays) as an end to snow days.... that's a topic that's sure to get your students talking! (Is snow causing your school to have an e-day? Get virtual therapy ideas!)

• Recycling snow? This article from Smithsonian Magazine discusses using snow as a resource!

• This Simon's Cat video (mentioned above) is great for older students, too!

• Time-lapse videos (such as this 6-foot snowfall in 1.5 minutes) are also fun for older students to view and discuss.

• This extreme weather PDF resource contains a section all about blizzards. After reading an informational passage, students answer the questions that target making inferences, comprehension, vocabulary, synonyms, and antonyms.

There's snow doubt that you can find something for everyone with this complete list of fun, wintertime activities! Whether you want to grow vocabulary, target articulation skills, address higher-level language skills, or something in between, a snow theme is a great winter theme for any age. 

Need even more ideas for this time of year? Get lesson plans for a snowman theme, a winter sports theme, and a hot chocolate theme.

NOTE: Several of the links in this post go to websites for which I have no affiliation. The links are provided for your convenience only. This post does not signify endorsement of any of the above websites or resources (other than those I have created on TpT and/or Boom Learning), and I have no responsibility or liability for any of the other content or information shared in this post.

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