Quick and Easy Speech Therapy Activities: Table top drawings

Once the holiday season starts, I’m always looking for quick and easy activities to motivate my clients.  Don’t get me wrong, I love adapting Pinterest projects or using amazing TPT products in therapy.  But sometimes I’m looking for an activity that I can set up in less than 5 minutes.

I didn’t realize that you could use white board markers on tables until  I read Miss Thrifty SLP’s blog.  It still took me a few months before I dared try using a marker on my table.  It’s pretty fun-and my clients are always really motivated to write on the table.

Mostly I use my table writing for keeping score, writing out hints or graphic organizers.  The other day, I forgot to grab any materials beyond a card deck for one of my clients.  Which is how I came up with table top drawing.  It’s only limited to your imagination (and ability to draw a straight line).  Here are two games we played:

Birthday Party

I made a (very poor) drawing of a present and put my target cards inside the box.  I drew a cake with candles and after each third card, I lit a candle.  When all the “candles” were lit, I sang “Happy Birthday” and let my client “blow” out the candles.  (I erased them as they blew on them).

Fishing Game

 

A perfect alternative when you can’t find the time to add paper clips to your therapy cards for a more traditional fishing activity.  or when you realize that the paper clips you purchased were actually plastic and not metal…

Monster Snack

You can draw any animal with a giant mouth for this activity.  Sometimes it just seems too much to pretend to eat cards with a hand puppet.  Especially when you are backed up on your handwritten billing notes-you need to conserve your hand strength.  

Have you drawn on your table?  I’d love to hear what you did!