✄ Your students will love collecting bugs in the jar while practicing articulation skills! Perfect for spring and summer lesson plans (or any other time of year you do a bug theme!). NEW Easy Cut Version included for free! There are two files in this download (regular and easy cut). I added the easy cut version for my younger students (it has a cutting guide around the images) NO-PREP! Ink Friendly! Print & Go!
This activity was designed to be a simple, no-prep activity to target articulation perfect weather themed lesson plans. It is a simple cut and paste craft! Perfect for k-5 (some younger students may need cutting assistance, depending on fine motor abilities).
Commonly targeted phonemes included:
☞ Initial/Medial/Final: k, g, f, v, l, s, z, ch, j, sh, th (mixed voiced/unvoiced)
☞ lblends, rblends, initial sblends (separate mats for sp, st, sm, sn, sk, sl, sw, mixed), final sblends
☞ Pre-vocalic r, or, er, ar, air, ear, ire, rblends
Don't see a sound you need? I included a blank page to use with any speech/language target.
I also included a guide that can be used as a coloring page too! Table of contents/page guide included to make finding the page you need easy!
→ Assembly: None! Print & go!
➞ To use: Print out a bug jar page for every student in the group (page 5). Print out the bug page with the target sound needed for each student.
I have the students color the jar first so that they are ready to build collect their bugs (or you can have them color it in between turns to keep their hands busy). The student will color and practice each target word on the bugs. The student will cut out the bugs and practice the words again. The student will glue the bugs in the jar and practice the word one more time!
Please note: This file will be delivered in a zipped compressed file. The two files (regular & easy cut). Please make sure you understand how to open a zipped file BEFORE you purchase this product.
To unzip on a Mac:
- Double click the zipped file.
- The file will automatically be decompressed by Archive Utility into the same folder the compressed file is in.
- Access the extracted files by clicking the appropriate icons.
- You can drag them into a file on your computer or add them to your Google Drive or Dropbox.
To unzip on a PC:
- Double-click the zip file you want to unzip OR right-click to select Extract All, and then follow the instructions.
- The zip file will open a folder, showing you the individual files inside.
- Select all the files and drag them out of the folder to another location on your computer.
***This is a digital download, you are responsible for printing the product to use. This purchase is a ONE user license, sharing this file in any way is not permitted. Please respect copyright laws. Exception: You may share a page with your student's caregiver for home practice.