High practice articulation activity using kinetic sand

If you have been following me for a while, you may know I love to use “set up” time to practice.  What I like to do is get the child to say two or three trials and then I gentle push a marble about halfway into the sand.  Once all the marbles are pushed in, the child gets to make sure all the marbles are completely covered.  Then we do a few more trials, and the child gets to have a chance to dig a marble out.  A way I like to keep turns moving is to use the end of a paint brush or pencil to dig into the sand and swirl around – can we see a marble? 

 Variations you could use include using a phrase or sentence that has meaningful targets related to your therapy (eg: if you are targeting /s/ you could model and practice “Can we see a marble?”); you can incorporate a sibling or parent by letting them have a turn or you could use mini objects instead of marbles.  

You can watch me use this here.