Creating File Folder Games
Organize Yourself! Since many therapists travel to different sites, they end up carrying too many materials. Try making a few file folder games. They can be fun and easy to carry:
- Use library pockets and index cards to match things that go together. Put a picture of a toothbrush on the library pocket and a picture of toothpaste on the index cards. Make about 10 matches. Give the student an index card and help to match it to the correct library pocket.Use velcro tabs to stick cards in appropriate places. Print up pictures of items that go under the water, on the ground, or in the air. Sketch a scene of water, ground and air, on a file folder and place the velcro in different places on the scene. For example, print a fish and place a velcro tab under the water on the scene. The student would then stick the fish picture on the water scene. Velcro works best on laminated folders and pictures.
- Hewlett Packard is now marketing "Restickables". These are large square inkjet stickers that have a 3M product that allows you to reposition. I’ve used them and they really do "restick". I found them at a local Wal-Mart store. I have a template available on the new, Speech Therapy Activities CD. The template will allow you to insert specific pictures on them. If you don’t want to make your own, I have many categories already available and ready to print. For example, use them on a file folder activity, by writing "Zoo" on one side of the file folder, at the top, and "Farm" on the other side of the file folder, at the top. Print up photos of animals on the restickables. Help the student to determine if the animal is a farm animal or zoo animal and stick the sticker on the appropriate side of the file folder. You can make your own restickables by using Microsoft Word and the layout for Avery Big Square #3111, labels.
