Craft For A Rainy Day

by Sarah Chlebek, MS CCC-SLP

Arts and crafts can be a great way to spend time with your children while working on their speech and language.  Children love doing craft activities but sometimes it can be hard to come up with a fun craft to do with your little one especially when you are constantly on the go and don’t have time to clean up spilled glitter or paint.  This week at Anchor Therapies, our sessions focused on RAIN and I would like to share this simple yet fun project with you!  Before, completing the art project, we read a book that focused on rain.  This helped the child better understand what rain was.  We named the different items in the pictures and I asked simple questions about each picture (i.e., what does the boy have on his head?)

Rain, Rain, Go Away

This project will focus on the following milestones: 

·         Sequencing (putting things in order)

·         Following directions

·         Exploring objects through touch

·         Understanding and using new words

Materials Required: 

·         Glue stick

·         Blue construction paper

·        Slick / shiny blue paper

·        Cotton balls

·        Double sided adhesive sheets

·         Computer paper

  

Raindrops:  I couldn’t find raindrop stickers at any craft store, so I made my own.  Take the back off of one side of the double adhesive paper and stick it to the shiny blue paper.  Next, draw the raindrops on the paper and cut them out.

Cloud:  I cut a white cloud out of computer paper and stuck it on the blue construction paper with a glue stick. 

At this point you can grab your kiddo and incorporate him / her in the project.  Help him / her put the raindrop stickers on the blue construction paper.  Talk about the raindrops.  Talk about the color.  Touch them and talk about how they feel.  Count the raindrops as you put them on. 

Next let your child help put the glue stick on the white cloud and give him / her cotton to put in the glue.  Talk about the color and texture.  Take him outside and see if you can find clouds outside.  It will help your child to learn words more rapidly when you have a real object to correlate it to. 

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