Fiesta Thumbprints: A Speech Therapy Art Activity

Do you need a an engaging articulation activity to mix up your speech sessions? Grab an ink pad and this resource! It is an activity that keeps students busy during practice. My students love making thumbprint art and yours will too! No Prep and Ink Friendly

I designed this resource to go with my Cinco de Mayo lesson plans.

Speech on the Cob: A Speech Therapy Thumbprint Art Activity
This activity was designed to be a simple, no-prep craft activity to target articulation in an engaging way. These pages are no-prep (print & go).

⭐This is available in my 3rd thumbprint articulation art bundle (don't buy this if you own the bundle). ★ Articulation Thumbprint ART Bundle #3

This pack includes the following sounds: initial/final: p, b, m; final: n, t, d; initial/medial/final: k, g, f, v, l, s, z, ch, j, th, sh; pre-vocalic r; vocalic r (er, ar, or, air, ear, ire); rblends; lblends; sblends (separate mats for sp, st, sm, sn, sk, sl, sw, mixed). First practice, then make thumbprint watermelon seeds!

Materials Needed: Ink pad or paint (yellow recommended) and thumbprint seed pages.You could also dot the students' fingers with a bingo dotter if you don't have an ink pad.

Optional Assembly: Place them in a sheet protector or laminate to use with play dough.

To use: The student will practice the target word and then make a thumbprint corn kernel The student will place their thumb on an ink pad and then stamp it over an articulation word. The therapist will determine the number or trials per kernel. I have the students color the rest of the picture in between turns or when they are finished.

Variations:
Use play dough to smash to make kernels.
Use bingo chips to place over the kernels.
Use bingo dotters

Check out my thumbprint articulation art activities
• A Bunch of Speech Thumbprints: A SpeechTherapy Craft Activity
• Balloon Thumbprints A Speech Therapy Craft Activity
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• Buzzing Bees Thumbprints A Speech Therapy Craft Activity
• Christmas or Holiday Lights Thumbprints A Speech Therapy Craft Activity
• Falling Rain Thumbprints: A SpeechTherapy Craft Activity
• Fiesta Thumbprints: A Speech Therapy Art Activity
• Fishy Thumbprints: A SpeechTherapy Craft Activity
• Football Thumbprints: A Speech Therapy Art Activity
• Sweet Heart Thumbprints: A SpeechTherapy Craft Activity
• Thumbprint Easter Egg: A SpeechTherapy Craft Activity
• Thumbprint Frogs A Speech Therapy Craft Activity
• Thumbprint Ladybugs: A Speech Therapy Art Activity
• Thumbprint Leaves A Speech Therapy Craft Activity
• Thumbprint Spiders A Speech Therapy Craft Activity
• Thumbprint. Giraffe Spots: A Speech Therapy Art Activity• Thumbprints to the Pot of Gold: A Speech Therapy Art Activity
This download contains following sounds: initial/final: p, b, m; final: n, t, d; initial/medial/final: k, g, f, v, l, s, z, ch, j, th, sh; pre-vocalic r; vocalic r (er, ar, or, air, ear, ire); rblends; lblends; sblends (separate mats for sp, st, sm, sn, sk, sl, sw, mixed). I also included an open-ended page. First practice, then make a thumbprint piñata.

Materials Needed: Ink pad or paint, Fiesta Thumbprints Pages. Alternative to ink or paint: use bingo dotters (stamp the student’s thumb with the bingo dotter and then they can make a thumbprint on the page, works just as good as ink!).

Optional Assembly: You can also place in a sheet protector or laminate to use with play dough.

To use: The student will practice the target word and then make a thumbprint on the piñata. The student will place their thumb on an ink pad and then stamp it over a target word. The therapist will determine the number or trials per word.

Variations:
Use paint instead of ink
Use play dough to smash to make the piñata.
Use bingo chips to place over the words.
Use bingo dotters or crayons

⭐This thumbprint art pack is also available in Spanish⭐

Check out more Cinco De Mayo Themed resources
☀️Cinco De Mayo Vocabulary

☀️It's Fiesta Time Articulation Craft

Check out more thumbprint craft activities
A Bunch of Speech: Grapes

Spider Thumbprints for Articulation

Thumbprints Leaves for Articulation

Frog Thumbprints for Articulation

Christmas Lights Thumbprints for Articulation

Buzzing Bees Thumbprints for Articulation

Christmas Lights Thumbprints for Articulation

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