Halloween Build a Jack-o-Lantern Adapted Book and Craft Bundle Speech & SPED

This Halloween "Build a Jack-o-Lantern" Adapted Book and Craft Bundle for autism, speech therapy, and special education will be a great addition to the fall season.

Students will practice identifying colors, shapes, body parts, emotions, etc...

Use this activity as a whole group or individually. You can repeat both the book and craft several times and encourage tons of communication with the sentence prompts included.

Adapted Book- (**This is not a new book, just a new craft and bundle. :) )

This Halloween themed “Build a Jack-O-Lantern” adapted book is an interactive way to practice identifying shapes, colors, and emotions using repetitive text.

Students choose the shape of the eyes, nose, type of mouth, hat, glasses, and bow and put it onto the pumpkin. After choosing each body part, students will fill in a sentence by choosing the correct icon describing the body part by shape, color, etc…

For example: “My pumpkin has a [triangle] nose.”

This book can be used over and over to create different Jack-o-lanterns.

Visuals are included in the sentences to help identify words while reading the sentence aloud.

Craft and Communication Activity

This Halloween "Build a Jack-o-Lantern" Craft and Communication activity for Autism, Speech Therapy, and Special Education is an interactive way to practice identifying colors, shapes, body parts, and emotions using repetitive text.

Students choose the shape, style, or emotions of pumpkin parts. Then color, cut, glue, and match onto the pumpkin template. 2 templates are included- blank and with shadow matching prompt. 2 versions of "pumpkin parts" are also included- one for students making choices and one without. After choosing each part, students will fill in a sentence using a sentence strip prompt to say the shape, color, or part of the pumpkin. Sentence strip prompts and icon choices include only the parts of the pumpkin, color, and then other describing words (shape, emotions, etc...) You can use the sentence prompt page as a group or have one for each student.

If you choose, you can add the parts labeling page. There are 2 templates included (with and without shadow matching prompt.) You can also just match the parts icons onto the pumpkin. (eyes, nose, mouth, etc...)

•Use the sentence prompt pages to talk about the parts that you put on the pumpkin.

(just parts, colors, shapes/emotions, mix.)

-“My pumpkin has eyes.”

-“My pumpkin has a red bow.”

-“My pumpkin has a triangle nose.”

-“My pumpkin has a happy mouth.”

This activity can be used individually or as a whole group. The sentence strip prompts can be used as a single page or in a file folder format.

Included:

-Jack o lantern template (2 versions: with and without shadow matching

-pumpkin parts coloring pages (2 versions- with or without attribute choices)

-prompt strips and icons

- color "It is [color]

- parts "My pumpkin has a [mouth]"

- attributes "My pumpkin has a [triangle] [nose].

- Pumpkin parts labeling (2 versions- with and without shadow match prompt)

- pumpkin parts icons

- name label "_________'s Jack-o-lantern"