PrAACtically Valentine’s Day: 5 Activity Ideas for AAC Learning

The novelty of a holiday creates the opportunity for fun and motivating activities that we can use to teach and practice language, literacy, and AAC skills. If you’re looking for a few more Valentine’s Day activities, we have some ideas for you to explore.

Core Words to Target

• Pronouns: I, you, it, we
• Action verbs: do, go, give, get, help, know, like, open, read, see, take, want
• Phrasal verbs: put in/on, take out
• Locatives: here, there
• Modifiers: bad, big, fun, good, little, more, some
• Social words: hi, thank you
• Determiners: this, these
• Interrogatives: how, what, who, where

Activity-specific Words to Target

• Colors, shapes
• People: boy, girl, child, teacher
• Verbs: paint, squeeze, write
• Descriptors: nice, smelly, squishy, sticky
• Nouns: marker, orange (fruit), paint

Activity Suggestions

1. Do some Heart Stamping
2. Get gooey while making and playing with Valentine Slime  
3. Read a book about kindness like The Nice Book,  The Invisible Boy, or Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
4. Do some Valentine-themed Mad Libs, like these from Rachel Lynette 
5. Make healthy Valentine snacks, like these Conversation Oranges, and deliver them to friends