St Patrick’s Day Prepositions Activities – Speech Therapy

St Patrick’s Day Prepositions Activities – Spatial Concepts for Speech Therapy

Make learning spatial concepts engaging with these St Patrick’s Day Prepositions Activities, designed to support children’s understanding and use of positional language.

This printable speech therapy resource includes a wide range of hands-on activities targeting eight prepositions, with opportunities for children to hear, understand and use spatial concepts in single words, phrases and sentences.

With picture cards, interactive books, clip cards, dough mats, foldable books and worksheets, this pack provides varied activities for practising the same target language throughout March.

Ideal for Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs), Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), teachers and professionals supporting early language development.

Which Prepositions Are Targeted?

The resource focuses on eight spatial concepts:

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

Activities can be adapted to support receptive and expressive language skills according to each child’s individual 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 for each target preposition.
• ‘Where Is the Leprechaun?’ interactive book, with instructions.
• 32 preposition clip cards – four cards per preposition, with instructions and ideas for use.
• 8 repetitive foldable books – one for each target preposition.
• 9 preposition dough mats – eight individual preposition mats and one mixed mat, with instructions and activity ideas.
• 6 printable worksheets for additional spatial concepts practice.
• Hands-on activity instructions, ideas and four leprechaun visuals.
• Caregiver-friendly home practice handout with suggestions for reinforcing spatial language beyond therapy sessions.

Designed to Support Repeated Language Practice

These St Patrick’s Day prepositions activities have been intentionally designed to provide children with multiple opportunities to hear and use target spatial concepts.

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

This approach helps children focus on learning the spatial relationships rather than processing lots of changing vocabulary at the same time.

The resource draws on research exploring how variability in language input can influence preposition learning in preschool children. You can also reduce the number of objects used in selected activities to suit individual learning needs.

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 Activities

Use the stimulus cards to model and practise positional language, the interactive book for repeated sentence practice, and the clip cards for identifying spatial relationships.

The foldable books, dough mats and printable worksheets provide additional opportunities to practise the same concepts through different activity formats.

The included home practice handout offers caregivers ideas for supporting spatial language in everyday activities.

Perfect For

• Speech therapy targeting prepositions and spatial concepts
• Receptive and expressive language intervention
• Early language development activities
• St Patrick’s Day speech therapy sessions
• Individual and small-group language activities
• Hands-on positional vocabulary practice
• Speech therapy homework and caregiver-supported practice

Save with the Themed Prepositions Activities Bundle

This St Patrick’s Day Prepositions resource is also included in our Themed Prepositions Activities Bundle, which brings together themed activities for teaching spatial concepts throughout the year.

If you regularly support children learning prepositions, the bundle offers a more cost-effective way to access multiple resources.

Already own the bundle? You do not need to purchase this St Patrick’s Day resource separately, as it is already included.