Visual Recipes: Summer Treats & Snacks!
It's June, people! Whether you are trudging your way through the final days of the school year, embarking on an epic summer school journey, or getting yourselves nestled in for a fun summer home with your own babies - it's time for some fun. It's time to loosen the...
Tips for Making Your Cooking Lessons Run Smoothly
If you living in the special ed world you have probably heard of using cooking lessons in the classroom. This always sounds really weird to people at first. I get confused faces and some weird reactions from those out of the loop. But a lot of time we know how cooking...
Bunny Mix!
Wow! With Easter right around the corner I'm doing both St. Patrick's Day and Easter activities with my students the next couple weeks. One of my favorite cooking activities for Easter is Bunny Mix....Crunchy and Sweet is a great combination! I do this cooking...
St. Patrick’s Day Party Ideas
St. Patrick's Day is a stellar excuse for a party. March tends to drag. You start dreaming of April and warm weather and then realize it's only 4 days into March. Dang. If you are bored you better believe your students are bored too. And you know my mantra - a bored...
March Speech Ideas
March is just around the corner and it’s time to start planning for next month's lessons! Here are some different activities you can use with your students. Leprechaun, Leprechaun, What Do You See? This adapted book works on identifying different color objects. I...
Valentine Treats!
Need something fun this week to do in your classroom or with your therapy groups for Valentine's Day.....what about making Valentine Shakes, Valentine Freezes, or Valentine Floats? All 3 recipes are easy to make and taste delicious. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Thanksgiving Treats!
I had fun this month making different Thanksgiving Treats with my students. I picked different recipes depending on my students’ skills, students' interest, and if I was using the recipe in small groups or whole class activity. Here are a few different ideas I did...
Pumpkin Fluff!
My students were super excited this week to make Pumpkin Fluff. I try to incorporate monthly cooking activities into my lesson plans because it is a fun way to target following directions, sequencing, requesting, learning new vocabulary concepts, answering questions,...
Fall Recipe Units
My class LOVES cooking and The Speech Helper and I just finished a great new resources for some Fall Cooking Fun! This packet - Fall Recipe Units - contains 3 adapted recipe units for some fun Fall Themed cooking! Cooking is a fun and motivating activity that is great...
Visual Recipes: Halloween Treats and Snacks!
My kids LOVE cooking. Who wouldn't the activity ends with a yummy and edible treat? But guess what? This teacher LOVES cooking just as much as her hungry kiddos. Cooking works on so many important skills such as sequencing, turn taking, measuring, counting, colors,...
Social Thinking
Level 3: Expressive Language I love teaching and working on pragmatic language skills with my higher level students. Being a good conversationalist is very difficult for our students with social language challenges. For these students those social language deficits...
Visual Recipes: Summer Treats & Snacks
Summer is the perfect time for fun. Let you hair down and loosen those reins. It's time to let kids be kids. This packet of visual recipes is perfect for some fun and functional summer treats and snacks! These are quick and easy treats that can be used as a classroom...
Grilled Cheese Please! {free recipe download}
I think it is so important to incorporate functional life skills into therapy sessions. Cooking is a great way to work on following directions, requesting, sequencing skills, increasing functional vocabulary, problem solving, turn taking, and so much more. When I...
Bunny Mix!
Spring is finally here and it's time to start planning some new activities for the season! Since Easter is coming soon I decided to kick off the Spring season with Bunny Mix. This is one of my favorite recipes....Crunchy and Sweet is a great combination! I do this...
Shamrock Floats, Freezes, and Shakes!!!
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Strawberry Milkshake {free recipe & worksheets}
Normally when my kids do cooking activities I am a little... less than appetized... to put it nicely. There is usually sneezing going on far too near to the cooking bowl. Sometimes there is a little unintentional (or intentional) double dipping. But these pink...
Thanksgiving Party Prepping
I am a go all out kinda girl. I like to do things big - borderline over the top, in the gray area of ridiculousness, and questionably out of control. I want a 12 foot Christmas tree, 6 inch stilettos, unlimited toppings on my ice cream sundae, 3 layer birthday cakes,...
Making Cooking Activities Successful
If you living in the special ed world you have probably heard of using cooking lessons in the classroom. This always sounds really weird to people at first. I get confused faces and some weird reactions from those out of the loop. But a lot of time we know how cooking...
Jelly Bean Taste Test {work on vocab, predictions, & more!}
My kids were so pumped to do this activity! So was I! I have a soft spot for jelly beans. After this activity - I probably literally have a soft spot because I ate so many! Last year, I literally had to put my bag of jelly beans on top of a cabinet so...
St. Patty’s Rice Krispie Treats
My kids conned me into a double cooking extravaganza - shamrock shakes AND green rice krispie treats. How could I resist their adorable little faces. We had so much fun though and both of these cooking activities are relatively short. They love watching the...