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Happy summer! We have the best summer spatial preposition activities to keep your students engaged and learning! Check out these hands-on interactive games and activities to target a variety of spatial concepts. Plus don’t miss our no prep summer themed language mini-books for even more preposition practice during your speech and language sessions.
All of the summer themed activities target the following spatial concepts: IN, UNDER, ON, IN FRONT, NEXT TO, BETWEEN, BEHIND, OVER, AROUND, ABOVE, OUT, THROUGH. In addition, each engaging activity comes in both full color and black and white.
Read more about these Summer Crab Spatial Preposition Activities & Worksheets below!
Summer Spatial Preposition Matching
First up, have students match concepts to introduce a variety of spatial prepositions. Choose a matching activity with picture to picture, picture to text, or picture to symbol depending on your students level of need. Turn cards face down for a fun game with multiple student during speech and language sessions!
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Spatial Concepts Clip Cards
Print the concept cards in either color and black and white. Have students use a clothespin to clip the correct preposition or cover the preposition with any type of manipulative. We like to use pom-poms, mini-erasers, or paint dotters. Great way for students to identify each spatial preposition.
Preposition Punch Cards
These summer spatial preposition punch cards are awesome for so many reasons! Students can practice their language skills, but also work on fine motor skills. Find the correct preposition card and punch with a single hole punch or cover with any type of manipulative.
Summer Smash Mats
These smash mats will be one of your go-to summer spatial preposition activities! Grab some play dough and one of these no prep smash mats. We like to throw them into a page protector for repeated use then send home for speech homework. But students can also use paint dotters or crayons to color in each concepts if play dough isn’t an option!
Spin A Summer Preposition
Our students LOVE this summer spatial preposition activity. Print the concept wheel, large sand bucket, and crab pictures. Grab either a pencil and paperclip for a homemade spinner or grab one of this clear overlay spinners. Students can spin a spatial concepts then move the crab and bucket to demonstrate their understanding.
Pick A Summer Spatial Preposition
This next activity is similar to the spin a preposition above, but with less visuals supports. Students can choose a card and read the direction in a sentence. Then students can move the sand bucket and crab manipulatives to show their amazing summer spatial preposition knowledge!
Summer Spatial Preposition BINGO
Who doesn’t love a good old fashioned game of BINGO? This easy version of BINGO will definitely be one of your go-to summer spatial preposition activities. Just print the BINGO boards as well as the calling cards. Students can cover their responses with the included BINGO chips or simply color their responses. Perfect for large group or whole group speech and language sessions!
2-Part Cards
These next summer spatial preposition activity is our take on a simple matching game. Print the included cards then cut apart on the solid black line. Have students match the correct sentence to the corresponding picture. They can then glue their matches onto a piece of paper or kept them apart for additional practice at home!
Interactive Summer Preposition Book
For an adaptive spatial preposition book, print and laminate this interactive activity. While it may take a bit more work on the front end, we promise the finished product will be worth it! Read each page and have students place the crab in the correct place throughout. Also there are two versions available! One version with just a written sentence and one with added visual prompts.
Summer Concepts Student Activity Book
This next summer spatial preposition activity is ideal for speech and language homework! Send students home with their very own interactive book plus the mini crab pictures. As they read the story, students place crabs in the correct place. There is even a sentence strip is on the bottom of each page to encourage sentence expansion!
Make A Summer Spatial Preposition Scene
To make an awesome summer beach scene, simply print one of the two included pictures. Have students choose a card then correctly place the crab within the picture scene. They can glue the picture on or remove for repeated practice.
Spatial Preposition Scavenger Hunt
Our last engaging summer spatial preposition activity is really three activities in one! Print, cut, and hide the spatial concept cards around the room or in a summer themed summer bin. Once students find a concept card, they can either check off the spatial preposition on the included checklist or color in the matching picture on the Find & Color page. Your students will love being able to get up and move!
Read More Here: 12 Easy & Engaging Back To School Spatial Preposition Activities
Bonus Spatial Preposition Worksheets
Lastly, we have included a few black and white worksheets to help review or maintain knowledge of spatial concepts. We recommend sending them home for additional practice or using them as a quick pre/post-test to determine student progress. Just print and go!
Grab these worksheets and all of the above summer spatial preposition activities here or by clicking the image below!
Summer Language Mini-Books (With Spatial Prepositions)
To further target summer spatial prepositions, we have these super versatile Summer Language Mini-Books. There are 4 student language mini-books including My Summer Words (vocabulary), Summer Colors, Summer Directions (containing 1-step and 2-step commands), and Where Is The Seashell? (spatial prepositions).
All books include a four word carry-over sentence with visuals. Great for mixed goal groups and printable for at home practice and carry-over. Plus use the large color teacher versions to review and demonstrate each language mini-book with students.
We hope you have enjoyed these summer spatial preposition activities to keep your students engaged and learning all summer long! Which one is your favorite??? Drop us a comment below to let us know!
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