Football Activities for Speech Therapy
Ready to score some points with your kids? Whether your kids love football or if they just need to know more about the sport to keep up with conversations, we’ve got you covered. Keep reading for some fun speech and language ideas all about football.
Football Themed Speech and Language Activities
This set of football themed speech and language activities contains football vocabulary pictures and activities, social skill questions, following directions activities, articulation practice ideas, crafts and more. This set can get you through lesson planning for several weeks and cover lots of speech and language goals.
Sample questions:
What do referees do?
Where do fans sit?
Why do football players wear helmets?
Who throws the football?
What is a touchdown?
What does this mean – “The players look like they are ready to throw in the towel”?
Tell me 5 sounds you might hear at a football game.
Describe a helmet. Describe a mascot.
More Football Activities for Speech Therapy
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Play Catch!
Keep things easy and bring a football into the game. Toss the ball as you answer vocabulary questions, practice speech sounds, etc.
Play some Finger Flick Football
This classic game is somehow extremely fun and motivating for kids. It is easy to incorporate some speech targets while playing this game. Don’t feel like buying one? Make your own paper footballs: Watch the video HERE
Kids can make easy targets with cups or goal posts they construct themselves with legos or other objects.
Read some football themed books. Here are a few that I like:
Let’s Play Football – A Lift a Flap Board Book
Inspirational Football Stories for Young Readers
Here Comes Football – A Kids Guide to the Game
Try some Kid-Friendly Football-Themed Recipes with the kids
- Football eclairs
- Walking Tacos
- Hike-It Cheese Ball
- and more
Looking for a few other fall themed easy to make recipes with the kids? Check out this blog post:
3 Free Fall Recipes to Make with the Kids
Hope you have some fun this football season! What are your favorite football themed ideas?