Farm Prepositions Activities for Speech Therapy – Spatial Concepts

Farm Prepositions Activities for Speech Therapy – Spatial Concepts

Make learning spatial concepts engaging with these Farm Prepositions Activities for Speech Therapy!

This printable farm-themed resource provides a range of hands-on activities to help children understand and use eight prepositions and spatial concepts during speech and language therapy sessions.

With stimulus cards, interactive books, clip cards, dough mats, worksheets and more, this resource offers repeated opportunities to hear, understand and practise spatial language in meaningful activities.

Perfect for individual therapy, small-group sessions, early language intervention and farm-themed learning.

Which Prepositions Are Targeted?

This resource focuses on eight spatial concepts:

• In
• On
• Under
• Behind
• In front of
• Next to
• Above
• Between

Activities can be adapted to support both understanding and expressive use of these concepts, depending on each child’s needs.

What’s Included?

• Sentence strip and visuals to support sentence formulation.
• 10 activity ideas for using the preposition stimulus cards.
• 64 preposition stimulus cards – eight cards per preposition.
• ‘Where Is the Cow?’ interactive book, with instructions.
• 32 preposition clip cards – four cards per preposition, with instructions and activity ideas.
• 8 repetitive foldable books – one for each target preposition.
• 9 preposition dough mats – one for each preposition, plus one mixed mat, with instructions and ideas for use.
• 6 printable worksheets for additional practice.
• Hands-on activity instructions, ideas and five cow visuals.
• Caregiver-friendly home practice handout with ideas for supporting spatial language beyond therapy sessions.

Designed to Support Repeated Language Practice

These farm-themed prepositions activities have been intentionally designed to provide children with multiple opportunities to hear and use the target spatial concepts.

The activities use consistent imagery, with a cow as the main character and a limited selection of other objects.

This helps keep the focus on spatial relationships rather than requiring children to learn lots of unfamiliar vocabulary at the same time.

You can also reduce the number of objects presented in selected activities to suit individual learning needs.

The design draws on research exploring how variability in language input can influence preposition learning in preschool children.

Research reference: Nicholas, K., Alt, M., & Hauwiller, E. (2019). Variability of input in preposition learning by preschoolers with developmental language disorder and typically-developing language. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 35(1), 55–74.

Ways to Use These Farm Prepositions Activities

Use the stimulus cards for identifying and describing spatial relationships, the interactive book for repeated sentence practice, and the clip cards for receptive language activities.

The foldable books, dough mats and printable worksheets offer further opportunities to practise target prepositions through different activity formats.

The included home practice ideas can help caregivers reinforce spatial concepts during everyday routines.

Perfect For

• Speech and language therapy targeting prepositions
• Receptive and expressive language development
• Teaching spatial concepts and positional vocabulary
• Early language intervention
• Farm-themed speech therapy sessions
• Individual and small-group activities
• Supported home practice

US and UK/Australian Versions Included

Your download includes both US and UK/Australian English versions to accommodate different spelling and terminology preferences.

Please note: This product is supplied as a ZIP file containing both versions.

Save with the Themed Prepositions Activities Bundle

This Farm Prepositions resource is also included in our Themed Prepositions Activities Bundle, which brings together a range of themed materials for teaching spatial concepts.

If you regularly work with children developing their understanding and use of prepositions, the bundle offers a more cost-effective way to access multiple themed resources.

Already own the bundle? You do not need to purchase this Farm Prepositions resource separately, as it is already included.