Pop up Pirate
A game found in every Speech Pathologist’s activities cupboard!
Pop – Up Pirate is a favourite activity I pull down in most sessions as children just LOVE it. So much so, that I know many parents have since bought this fun game as their children keep asking to play it! (Big W sell it for $15)
I use Pop – Up Pirate in a variety of ways;
- As a warm up activity in social skills groups so everyone can share in the enjoyment (or is it fear??) when the Pirate Pops Up.
- To practice taking turns and to learn the names of people in a group. For example, you may ask a child to say the name of the child whose turn it is next.
- To provide opportunities for children to make requests ‘Can I have…’, ‘I want…’
- Another great activity to ‘spice’ up articulation practice, your child can put a sword into the barrel each time they say a sound or a word.
- For those doing smooth speech fluency therapy, it’s a good way to practice gently starting a sentence and lengthening vowels with the repetitive phrase ‘…can I have the blue sword’.
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