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The Activity Library

Daily challenges, conversation starters, reading games, pretend play, routines, songs and more. Pick one. Five minutes counts.

What is the Activity Library?

Quick, play-based speech and language activities you can use in everyday moments. Each activity takes about 5–10 minutes and helps build conversation, vocabulary, listening, storytelling, confidence and communication through play. No special materials and no speech therapy experience needed.

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    5–10 minutes

    Made for real, busy days.

  • 🎯

    One idea, many moments

    Each activity suggests where to try it.

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    Step-by-step

    Tap any activity for how to play.

Choose by stage, not age

  • 🟒 Early Communicator β€” First words, sounds, gestures and short phrases.
  • πŸ”΅ Expanding Language β€” Longer sentences, questions, describing and back-and-forth talk.
  • 🟣 Story Builder β€” Retelling, sequencing, explaining and imagining out loud.
  • ⭐ Confident Communicator β€” Conversation, self-advocacy, speaking up and social language.

Today's challenge

Three Good Things

Name three good things that happened today and why each one was special.

How to play

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  • ⭐ Daily Challenges 5 min

    Three Good Things

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Name three good things that happened today and why each one was special.

    Try it during: 🍳 Breakfast Β· πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner …

    How to play
  • ⭐ Daily Challenges 5 min

    Silly Question Swap

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Take turns asking each other one silly question and answering it fully.

    Try it during: 🍳 Breakfast Β· πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner …

    How to play
  • ⭐ Daily Challenges 5 min

    Word of the Day

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Pick one new word together and use it five times before bedtime.

    Try it during: 🍳 Breakfast Β· πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner …

    How to play
  • ⭐ Daily Challenges 3 min

    I Noticed You

    🟒 Early Communicator

    Tell your child one thing you noticed them do well, then let them tell you one.

    Try it during: 🍳 Breakfast Β· πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner …

    How to play
  • ⭐ Daily Challenges 5 min

    Finish My Sentence

    🟒 Early Communicator

    Start a sentence and let your child finish it in their own words.

    Try it during: 🍳 Breakfast Β· πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner …

    How to play
  • ⭐ Daily Challenges 6 min

    Two Truths and One Wish

    🟣 Story Builder

    Share two true things and one wish, and guess which is the wish.

    Try it during: 🍳 Breakfast Β· πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner …

    How to play
  • ⭐ Daily Challenges 6 min

    Tell It Back

    🟣 Story Builder

    Share a short story, then ask your child to retell it in their own words.

    Try it during: 🍳 Breakfast Β· πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner …

    How to play
  • ⭐ Daily Challenges 5 min

    Big Feelings Check-In

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Name the feeling you each had today and one reason why.

    Try it during: 🍳 Breakfast Β· πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner …

    How to play
  • πŸ’¬ Conversation Starters 6 min

    If I Had a Pet Dragon

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Invent a pet dragon together β€” name it, feed it, describe it.

    Try it during: πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner table Β· 🚢 On a walk …

    How to play
  • πŸ’¬ Conversation Starters 5 min

    Best Part / Hard Part

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Share the best part and the hard part of your day.

    Try it during: πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner table Β· 🚢 On a walk …

    How to play
  • πŸ’¬ Conversation Starters 6 min

    Would You Rather

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Ask a would-you-rather question and always ask β€œwhy?” after.

    Try it during: πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner table Β· 🚢 On a walk …

    How to play
  • πŸ’¬ Conversation Starters 5 min

    Tell Me About This Picture

    🟒 Early Communicator

    Look at a photo together and describe everything you see.

    Try it during: πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner table Β· 🚢 On a walk …

    How to play
  • πŸ’¬ Conversation Starters 4 min

    My Favorite Sound

    🟒 Early Communicator

    Name your favorite sound in the world and describe it.

    Try it during: πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner table Β· 🚢 On a walk …

    How to play
  • πŸ’¬ Conversation Starters 5 min

    One Day I Will

    🟣 Story Builder

    Finish the sentence β€œOne day I will...” three different ways.

    Try it during: πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner table Β· 🚢 On a walk …

    How to play
  • πŸ’¬ Conversation Starters 6 min

    Ask Me Anything

    ⭐ Confident Communicator

    Your child asks you three questions and you answer with full sentences.

    Try it during: πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner table Β· 🚢 On a walk …

    How to play
  • πŸ’¬ Conversation Starters 5 min

    What Happens Next?

    🟣 Story Builder

    Pause a story or show and predict what happens next out loud.

    Try it during: πŸš— Car ride Β· 🍽 Dinner table Β· 🚢 On a walk …

    How to play
  • πŸ“š Reading Together 4 min

    Cover Detective

    🟒 Early Communicator

    Before reading, guess the whole story from the cover.

    Try it during: πŸŒ™ Bedtime story Β· πŸ›‹οΈ Cozy couch Β· πŸ“š Library visit …

    How to play
  • πŸ“š Reading Together 8 min

    Character Voices

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Give every character a different voice and take turns reading them.

    Try it during: πŸŒ™ Bedtime story Β· πŸ›‹οΈ Cozy couch Β· πŸ“š Library visit …

    How to play
  • πŸ“š Reading Together 6 min

    Pause and Predict

    🟣 Story Builder

    Stop halfway and ask what will happen next and why.

    Try it during: πŸŒ™ Bedtime story Β· πŸ›‹οΈ Cozy couch Β· πŸ“š Library visit …

    How to play
  • πŸ“š Reading Together 6 min

    Find Five Words

    🟣 Story Builder

    Hunt for five interesting words and use each one in a new sentence.

    Try it during: πŸŒ™ Bedtime story Β· πŸ›‹οΈ Cozy couch Β· πŸ“š Library visit …

    How to play
  • πŸ“š Reading Together 5 min

    Retell in Three

    🟣 Story Builder

    Retell the story in exactly three sentences: beginning, middle, end.

    Try it during: πŸŒ™ Bedtime story Β· πŸ›‹οΈ Cozy couch Β· πŸ“š Library visit …

    How to play
  • πŸ“š Reading Together 7 min

    New Ending

    🟣 Story Builder

    Make up a brand new ending and tell it out loud.

    Try it during: πŸŒ™ Bedtime story Β· πŸ›‹οΈ Cozy couch Β· πŸ“š Library visit …

    How to play
  • πŸ“š Reading Together 6 min

    Feelings Map

    πŸ”΅ Expanding Language

    Name how the main character felt on three different pages.

    Try it during: πŸŒ™ Bedtime story Β· πŸ›‹οΈ Cozy couch Β· πŸ“š Library visit …

    How to play
  • πŸ“š Reading Together 6 min

    Read It To Me

    🟒 Early Communicator

    Let your child β€œread” the pictures to you in their own words.

    Try it during: πŸŒ™ Bedtime story Β· πŸ›‹οΈ Cozy couch Β· πŸ“š Library visit …

    How to play

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