Working on your child’s speech and language targets can be incorporated into fun, everyday activities at home. Snack time is no exception. Today we are sharing a therapists favorite Valentine themed snack activity:
Tic-Tac-Toe Heart Snack
Follow the 4 steps below and enjoy this fun at home activity with your child:
Step 1: Gather Your Materials
You will need: graham crackers, icing, and candy hearts
Step 2: Prep your tic-tac-toe boards
Break your graham crackers in half
Count how many hearts you will need for each board (9 per board)
Step 3: Decorate
Place heart candies in each respective box after given a verbal direction.
Step 4: Enjoy
Time to eat your yummy snack!
Listed below are the speech and language skills targeted in the making of this snack:
- Following directions – You can simplify this task with single step directions or increase the difficulty of this task to following multistep directions. (find 3 blue hearts, put the purple heart in the middle vs. find 5 pink hearts and 2 yellow hearts and put the green heart next to the purple heart and then but the yellow heart below the green heart.)
- Spatial concepts – on top, under, above, below, in between etc.
- Qualitative concepts – big, little, colors
- Quantitative concepts – one, all, few, two
- Attributes – same, different
- Turn-taking
- Conversation starters
- Figurative language
Try the Tic-Tac-Toe Heart Snack at home and let us know how it turned out!