Toy Tuesday – Pop up Pirate

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;

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To provide opportunities for children to make requests ‘Can I have…’, ‘I want…’
4. 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.
5. 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’.

Stacey Sires is Learning Links talented Part Time Speech Pathologist working out of our Niddrie Clinic on Monday and Tuesdays