Indoor Activities to Promote Speech & Language

Hello, 2025! We at MTS hope that you had a lovely holiday season and a happy start to the new year.

After the excitement and business of the holidays, it can be easy to fall into a winter slump. Who wants to move from the couch when it’s dreary outside? We’re here to provide some easy indoor play ideas to keep warm while growing those speech and language skills!

Simple activities can be great opportunities for learning. For example, a deck of playing cards can become a matching game. Go Fish can be a change to practice turn-taking. Teaching a family favorite card game, such as hearts or euchre, to older children can be great practice for following more complex directions.

Cooking together can also be a beautiful opportunity for learning receptive and expressive language skills. Even something as small as mixing a packet of hot chocolate can become practice for following sequential directions, or using expressive language from simple labeling to expressing complex directions about how to make it.

For more active play, an indoor scavenger hunt can become an opportunity to practice concept language or speech sounds. For example, in looking for items to make a snowman, you have the chance to practice finding items by function, appearance, or location, or could practice the speech sounds your child’s therapist has recommended to target at home (e.g., “The snowman needs his scarf”).

Similarly, freeze dance or freeze tag is an easy way to get moving and get to learning! These activities are great opportunities for understanding or using action words, taking turns, practicing with functional language (go/stop), and expressing social language (e.g., “This is fun!”).

How are you keeping warm and entertained this winter? Happy playing!

MTS Kids

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