Turkey Activities for Speech Therapy

Are you looking for turkey activities for speech therapy? Not everyone does holiday activities at school, so I’ve put together a set of easy turkey activities that are perfect for a fun, but non-holiday specific theme! Amazon affiliate links are included throughout this post.

Turkey Books

Until I started looking, I had no idea all of the amazing books out there about turkeys! Some of them I “borrowed” from my kids’ book collection at home, some I checked out from the school library, and others I’ve collected from Amazon or Scholastic over the years. Here’s my favorite list:

Turkey Trouble is one of my favorite books to teach all year! In fact, there are three other Turkey books that you can use throughout the year for different holidays! I have three different activity companions for Turkey Trouble making it easy to incorporate Turkey Trouble with all of your groups and students!

1. Turkey Trouble Book Companion (Included activities in color to print and laminate, as well as a few black and white worksheets):

2. Turkey Trouble No Prep Book Companion (Includes ONLY black and white pages to print or send home with students)

3. Turkey Trouble Boom Card Companion (Boom Card deck with activities such as comprehension questions, sequencing, basic concepts, vocabulary, category sorting, and much more! Great for face-to-face or teletherapy!

You guys know I love incorporating nonfiction into therapy! I recently found the new Animals on the Farm: Turkeys book, and I love that there isn’t a lot of text on each page, so it’s perfect for my younger students and non-readers! Here’s a mini companion that can be used with or without this book. It includes activities such as comprehension questions, true/false, vocabulary, the turkey life cycle, turkey labeling, and more! You can find it HERE.

Finally, all of my students love the Old Lady books, and There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey is no exception! I have two freebies for this book, too!

Here’s a Boom Card Reinforcement Freebie:

And here’s a printable freebie with a color activity and a black/white sequencing worksheet available in my Free Resource Library. If you’re already on my email list, just enter the password to download this and many other exclusive freebies. If you’re not already on the list, enter your email to be added, and you’ll be emailed the password!

Turkey Articulation Activities

One of the most common questions I get is how I use literacy with my students working on articulation. I get it: You love the books and you want to use them in therapy, but you aren’t sure how to use the books and still target speech sounds. I made this Feed the Turkey (pizza) Boom Card Activity to target initial sounds. It goes perfectly with the book Turkey Trouble, but it can be used separately from it as well. All of the initial sounds are included, including /ch, sh, th, s-blends, l-blends, and r-blends/.

Turkey Crafts

Making turkeys is such an easy craft! I took a little different approach with this one, though. I found this at the target dollar spot a few years back, but you could print one out you find online. Use construction paper for the feathers! But instead of writing directly on the paper, I laminated the turkey body and the feathers and cut them out individually. I let my students use dry erase markers to write something they were thankful for, and then we put them altogether. Then, we discuss as a group the different things everyone is thankful for. Erase and repeat for the next group! Working with articulation goals? Use the feathers to write down target words or sentences!

Turkey Games

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to practice social scenarios and conversational skills! You can use these Turkey Topic Conversation cards to practice both! They include pie plates and pieces of pumpkin pie, so your students can “earn” pieces of pie for correct responses. You can decide before the game how many pieces of pie make a whole pie, and whoever makes a whole pie first, wins!

Working on following directions? Or looking to incorporate movement into therapy sessions? You can use these Turkey Tom Says cards to do both while having so much fun! (Play like Simon Says).

Free Turkey Activities for Speech Therapy

Looking for more? Check out these other free turkey activities for speech therapy:

Turkey Preposition Practice Freebie by Whitneyslp
Turkey Categories Freebie by Speech Room News
Ten Little Turkeys by Simply Speech
Build a Virtual Turkey by Tech ‘n Talk SLPs
Color A Turkey Freebie, by Panda Speech

I hope this helps you with your planning for Turkey activities for speech therapy! Do you have any other Turkey activities that you use?