Food Naturalistic Activities

Toca Boca World app

Each month I switch out the apps, websites, and videos I use during treatment. Here are the ones I’m using this month… Toys/Board Games/Apps Here are some more ways to use Toca Boca World for speech and language treatment Books Videos Also: here are some ideas for using Disney shorts in speech & language treatment. …

November’s Theme: FOOD!

My dog, ooey, with a donut around her head and various donuts in the background.

There are so many fun games, video games, videos, and websites for food that I had to use it for November’s theme! You can see all the ways I’ve incorporated “food” into my practice below. You can also find the rest of my monthly themes here. You can find my other themed virtual therapy rooms …

Food Sensory Bin

A sensory bin with vanilla-scented, starwberry-scented, and chocolate-scented kinetic sand with plastic "toppings" and a spoon stick into it so that it looks like Neapolitan ice cream.

For my food-themed sensory bin I got this “Ice Cream Treats” kinetic sand pack. I got one years ago and had the hardest time keeping kids from mixing the colors/scents/flavors! I’ve since been letting each kid play with only one flavor ice cream at a time – this keeps the flavors separate! I also re-use …

Food Prizes

Erasers that look like various food scattered on a table.

For my food-themed prizes I got these food erasers. For 2025 I’m thinking about adding these scented food erasers, these scented cupcake erasers with sharpeners, and these scented donut erasers. You can find the rest of my themed prizes here.

Food-Themed Virtual Treatment Room

Here’s November’s food-themed virtual treatment room! Visit it to see the webcams, apps, videos, and websites I’m using this month. Here’s a link to my folder of themed virtual treatment rooms (so you can download and edit a room to make it your own if you want to). You can find my other themed virtual treatment rooms here.

October’s Theme: Magic!

October is my favorite month so as I’ve been developing monthly themes that I can reuse each year, I was most excited for this one! I started with “spooky” as the theme, but the more I thought about it “MAGIC” is better because it includes all the spookiness while still including topics for kids who …

Practice Halloween

Every October I practice trick-or-treating with my patients. For the week before Halloween, we end our regular appointment early and I have the kids go out into the hall, knock on my door, then say, “Trick or treat!” and I give them a piece of parent-approved candy (I get a pack of Yum Earth’s Halloween …