Hot Cocoa Cafe Speech and Language Therapy Toy Companion for the Critter Clinic

Description

Warm up your winter sessions. Your Critter Clinic becomes a Hot Cocoa Café with steaming mugs and sweet treats.

Use this Hot Cocoa Winter Café speech therapy activity with your preschool and early elementary students to target articulation, WH-questions, sequencing, vocabulary, grammar, and following directions through play-based, hands-on learning.

This winter speech therapy resource for SLPs is perfect for targeting multiple goals during cozy winter themes, holiday units, or seasonal therapy sessions—without worksheets or prep overload. Designed for speech therapy centers, individual sessions, and push-in services, this activity keeps kids engaged while you collect meaningful trials all session long.

Welcome to the Hot Cocoa Winter Café Critter Clinic, where steaming mugs, snowy days, and sweet winter treats meet powerful speech and language goals! This theme taps into everything kids love about winter cafés and pretend play while keeping your therapy structured, motivating, and easy to run.

Pair this Hot Cocoa Winter Café Toy Companion with your favorite winter-themed books, or use it as a standalone activity to bring cozy, play-based winter fun straight into your therapy room.

This companion was designed for busy SLPs who want to get the most out of their therapy toys. The Critter Clinic is a big investment, and this themed expansion allows you to use it for far more than its original purpose — and BONUS: you can target a wide variety of speech and language goals in a playful, low-prep way!

Transform your Critter Clinic using the included Café Decorations, Winter Play Props, and Scene Setups, and plan with confidence using the two included Speech + Language Cheat Sheets.

1) The General Critter Clinic Cheat Sheet includes:

• Articulation List (includes a general Critter Clinic Articulation Word List that you can use with any theme)
• Play Extension Ideas
• Ideas for Following Directions
• Basic Concept List
• Core Vocabulary List
• Ideas for Inferencing, Following directions, Rhyming, Describing, Pronouns, Plurals, Possessives, Present progressive -ing, Spatial Concepts, and Verb Tenses

2) The Cocoa Cafe Themed Cheat Sheet includes lists for:

• Wh Questions
• Associations
• Compare/Contrast
• Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives
• Articulation Targets
• Sequencing
• 10 Play Scenarios

You can use this activity to practice events that happen at a hot cocoa café, to retell a story, to target speech and language goals, to encourage play skills in individual or group therapy sessions.

The quick and easy set up and huge assortment of manipulatives will keep your students engaged and learning. It is the perfect way to easily create a themed speech therapy session and includes everything you need for a hands on learning session!

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Please note: THE CRITTER CLINIC IS NOT INCLUDED. No physical items will be shipped to you.

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