Sometimes you don’t need much - it’s all about creatively engaging with what is already around us.
For example, how might we target speech and language goals with a piece of grass?
If you were working one grammar, you could teach conjunctions (and, or, but) by giving instructions, e.g. “Touch my left hand with the grass and touch my right hand,” or, “Touch all my fingers but not my pinky,” practising alternating between yourself and the child.
If you were teaching speech sounds, a piece of grass is perfect for working on the ‘p’ sound because if you hold the grass close to your mouth and make the ‘p’ sound, the grass kind of bounces - giving the child a fun and experiential way to notice when they are making the sound. Once again, you could hold the grass up to your own mouth and the child’s and alternate between the two of you, or do it at the same time with different pieces of grass.
If you were teaching language, you could teach adjectives by describing the grass in many ways, for example: floppy, furry, bendy, curvy.
Have fun!
