Crafts are an excellent and fun way to work on speech and language skills! This month, one of our themed craft activities is a heart coffee filter. We are going to break the craft down into 5 easy steps so you can practice language skills and create a heart coffee filter anywhere.
Valentine’s Day Craft: Coffee Filter Heart
Step 1: Gather your materials
You will need a coffee filter, scissors, markers, water and droppers!
Step 2: Cutting
Cut coffee filter into a heart shape!
Step 3: Coloring
Have your child color the middle of the filter with pink, purple or red markers- it can be as simple or as complex as you would like!
Step 4: Incorporating Water
Use a dropper with water and drop small droplets of water onto the coffee filter.
Watch the heart colors grow!
Step 5: Communication
Talk about what happened!
Speech and language skills targeted in the making of this craft:
Following directions –you can simply begin with one instruction or increase to multistep directions (first color the heart pink, then color purple, etc.)
Spatial concepts – drop water on the red dot, color next to the red dot.
Inferencing – Ask your child questions such as “What do you think will happen when we drop the water on the marker spots?”-“What do we need to cut the heart?”
Sequencing – Use the “first, next, and last” sequential markers when talking to your child. Using sequential words prepare your little one for later developing literacy skills. “First we will cut the heart, next we will color the heart and last we will drop water on the colored spots.”
Let us know how the craft turned out @tri_countytherapy on Instagram!
Visual timers are very beneficial in helping make participation in necessary activities more tolerable. Visual times are valuable to help with transitioning, as they provide a “warning” to children with transition difficulties that a task is going to begin or end shortly. Visual timers can also help with staying on task while completing non-preferred activities or act as a timer to let a child know when her preferred activity will end. There are many types of visual timers, you can use the timer on your phone, a digital timer, a kitchen timer, etc.
