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Games for Language Development
Seek-a-Boo is a great game to play with both Toddlers and Big Kids together.
Sight Word Bingo helps kids ages 4 and up with pronunciation and enunciation, in addition to reading. See my post at:
Words with Bingo
Go Fish Alphabet using letters helps your child with letter recognition, saying letters, and word association
Not a specific game but with sorting bears you can make up all sorts of games and practice colors, “on top”, “inside”, “under”, sorting, color recognition, fine motor skills.
Sorting and Sound
With this matching game, from a young age, you can start saying words, matching and sorting with these cards. As your child gets older, you can enhance with more focus on pronunciation, enunciation, memory and making logic decisions.
This indoor scavenger hunt game is great for introducing words and understanding. It took up a whole morning with my toddler excitedly looking for things and repeating the words over and over.
Activities & Supplies
Tape is a magic supply that is great for all kinds of language activities.
Exploring Language Through Play
Tape Pull
Line and Tape Sort
Speech and Spiders
Shapes, Tape, Conversate
Video Reel with Tape Ideas
If you are having trouble getting an “S” sound or any other sound that requires blowing outward, try these bubble pipes. Story linked below.
Prelude to the “S” Sound
Paint leads to many language exploring activities focusing on color, new words, decisions and fine motor. Examples linked below.
Speech and Spiders
Language with Loofahs
Painting with Sound
Feet Painting
Play-Doh is my favorite language activity. It focused on color, imagination, big/small ball, shape names, logic, fine motor and more. See activities below for ideas.
Build Language with Play-Doh
Moving Towards a Conditioned Response
Stickers can be added to any arts and crafts activity to introduce new words
Words with Stickers
Speech and Spiders
Farm animals are great for animal names and sounds. They can also be embedded in activities that work on other language and fine motor.
Tape Pull
Line and Tape Sort
Shapes, Tape, Conversate
Moving Towards a Conditioned Response
Toys for Language Development
These turtle steps were the surprise success purchase I had this year. They have been great for obstacle courses, fine motor and plain old fun.
Turtle Step Sounds
I purchased this owl toy specifically to use for practicing a conditioned response with my toddler. However it’s a great all around toy for colors, numbers and fine motor skills.
What is a Conditioned Response?
Moving Towards a Conditioned Response
The hedgehog is also great for a conditioned response, colors, counting, fine motor and logic.
What is a Conditioned Response?
Moving Towards a Conditioned Response
My kids have never grown tired of the Mickey Mouse figurine set. We take it with us everywhere in their “purses”. With it the kids play and make up stories. We also use these in tape rescue and they play in the Calico Critters Dollhouse.
Tape Pull
Line and Tape Sort
This Calico Critters dollhouse has been my kids favorite for imaginative play. They also use other figurines that fit in. Language is introduced for mealtimes, bath time, bed time and general things in the house like “s/he is going upstairs/downstairs”
These Helping Hands tools are great for fine motor and picking up objects within language activities.