Picnic Match and Flip Books | Summer Food Shape Picture Matching | SLP SPED
Product Description
These Picnic Match and Flip Books build foundational matching skills with a hands-on, low-prep adapted book format. Students flip through colorful picnic-themed pages to practice picture-to-picture matching (exact match) AND matching by shape — essential pre-academic and visual discrimination skills. Features big pieces for little hands and students with fine motor challenges.
🧺 Perfect for:
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting matching, attributes, and food/picnic vocabulary goals
- Special Education teachers building spring, summer, and end-of-year units
- Autism classrooms needing structured, repeatable work tasks
- Occupational Therapists working on visual discrimination and fine motor skills
- ABA therapists running discrete trial and matching programs
- Early Childhood, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers introducing matching concepts
- Extended School Year (ESY) summer programs
- Summer camps and homeschool families
🥪 What's Included — 4 Match and Flip Books:
- Match the Picnic (Picture to Picture / Exact Match)
- Match the Jelly to the Peanut Butter (Matching by Shape)
- Match the Cookies (Matching by Shape)
- Match the Picnic Drinks (Picture to Picture / Exact Match)
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Visual discrimination, picture-to-picture matching (exact match), shape matching and shape recognition, picnic and food vocabulary (sandwich, peanut butter, jelly, cookies, drinks, and more), receptive language, following directions, fine motor skills (Velcro manipulation), and independent work skills.
How to Use:
Print, laminate, and add Velcro for years of use. Students remove pieces from the storage page, look at the target on each page, and match the correct piece. Perfect for independent work bins, morning tubs, structured teaching trials, speech therapy sessions, or center rotations. The big-piece format makes this resource accessible to young students and students with fine motor challenges.
🍪 Ways to Use:
- Independent work systems and TEACCH tasks
- Speech therapy warm-ups and matching drills
- ABA discrete trial training
- Morning tubs and centers
- OT sessions targeting visual scanning and fine motor
- Early finisher activities
- Spring, summer, picnic, and end-of-year thematic units
- Extended School Year (ESY) summer therapy
- Summer camp language activities
- Homework or home practice for tele-therapy
I have just bundled all of my Match and Flip Books into two different growing bundles. You can see those bundles at the links below:
Match and Flip Books Bundle II
If your students enjoy these activities, I have a growing collection of Match and Flip Books. You can find those here:
For more hands-on spring, or picnic themed activities, please see the following links:
