Turkey Themed Speech Therapy Craft
Turkey headband craft, Thanksgiving craft for speech therapy
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to bring creativity and crafts into your speech therapy sessions! If you’re looking for a way to make speech therapy both engaging and productive this fall, these Thanksgiving speech therapy crafts are exactly what you need. Designed with busy SLPs in mind, this resource combines articulation and language practice with easy, no-prep fun your students will love.
Why Hands-On Crafts Work in Speech Therapy
If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for a way to make speech therapy around the holidays fun without adding more prep to your plate. Enter my favorite November activity: Thanksgiving speech therapy headbands!
These cute turkey, scarecrow, and pumpkin pie headbands check all the boxes…hands-on, no-prep, and perfect for working on articulation and language goals while your students think they’re just doing a craft.
There’s something magical about turning your speech work into something wearable. Kids love showing off what they’ve made, and you’ll love sneaking in all that meaningful practice.
While they’re coloring, cutting, and assembling their headbands, they’re also:
🗣️ Practicing their target sounds
🧠 Following directions
💬 Using descriptive language
🙌 Talking about Thanksgiving vocabulary and concepts
And the best part? When they put the headbands on, they’re so proud of their work. I love watching them parade out of the room showing off their “speech headbands” …and they get to share all that practice at home too!
What’s Included in the Thanksgiving Speech Therapy Headband Craft Resource
You’ll get three different Thanksgiving characters to choose from:
🦃 A silly turkey
🌾 A friendly scarecrow
🥧 A cutie pumpkin pie
Each one comes with articulation and language goals that you can mix and match with a child’s character of choice. It’s the perfect combo of structure and fun, especially for mixed groups or preschoolers with short attention spans!
scarecrow headband craft for speech therapy
Goals You Can Target While Crafting
These headbands aren’t just cute—they’re packed with real speech and language practice! Here’s are the goals that are included:
🎯 Articulation:
All positions of common sounds (p, b, m, n, t, d, k, g, s, z, f, v, l, sh, ch, th, j), vocalic R, clusters, minimal pairs, multisyllabic words, and syllable shapes.
🧠 Language:
Pronouns, past tense verbs, plurals, spatial concepts, object function, categories, emotions, and idioms.
Plus, there’s a blank template so you can plug in your own targets if needed!
Perfect for Preschool, Mixed Groups, or Centers
These Thanksgiving speech therapy headbands fit just about anywhere in your schedule. They’re amazing for:
Preschool groups who need hands-on fun
Articulation students who thrive on repetition
Mixed groups where everyone has different goals
Centers or carryover stations
Quick, no-prep sessions before the holiday
It’s one of those awesome activities that works across your entire caseload…without hours of planning.
A Fun Way to Show Off Progress
After students finish, they love wearing their headbands or we can stick the finished product on a bulletin board. It’s such a cute way to fill your speech room with Thanksgiving decor and show off all that hard work.
Make This Thanksgiving Season Meaningful in Speech
If you’re ready to make November sessions easier and more festive - without hours of crazy prep work - you’ll love these Thanksgiving speech therapy headbands.
They’re simple to prep, fun to make, and loaded with practice opportunities for every student on your caseload.
👉 Grab the Thanksgiving Speech Therapy Headband Craft.
These Boom Cards makes an excellent book companion to There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Turkey by Lucille Colandro. Perfect for no prep fall and Thanksgiving speech therapy activities! Target wh- questions, story retell, sequencing, prepositions/spatial concepts, categories, negation, describing, and MORE!
Don't own the book? NO PROBLEM! There is a read aloud on YouTube you can access if you search the book title! I like the version on Storytime Now!
Includes over 40 cards:
Wh Comprehension Questions (8 cards)
Story Map (1 card)
Feed the Old Lady card for story retell and sequencing (1 card)
Spatial Concepts extension activity (10 cards)
Categories Sort extension activity (5 cards)
Pronouns (1 card)
Negation extension activity (10 cards)
Describing/EET extension activity (10 cards)
WHAT ARE BOOM CARDS?
Boom cards are digital task cards that "live" on Boomlearning.com. When you download this resource, there will be a link to the cards on the BOOM LEARNING website. You will have to either create an account or sign into an existing account in order to use them. To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with "Fast Pins," (play provides instant feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for students to engage with Boom Cards decks. For additional assignment options you'll need a premium account. You may be eligible for a free trial from Boom Learning. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial. If you choose not to stay on a premium account after your free trial, you will still be able to assign all your Boom Cards to as many students as you see fit using Fast Play pins (which give instant feedback for decks that are self-grading).