Visual Recipe Adapted Book | Banana Split Life Skills Sequencing | SLP SPED

Build life skills, sequencing, and following directions with this Adapted Recipe Book, "This Is How We Make a Banana Split"! Students follow the simple recipe step by step, identify ingredients and supplies, and sequence the steps to make a banana split — a fun, hands-on way to bring functional and language skills into your classroom or therapy room.

📦 What's Included

• 1 Adapted Recipe Book (with matching and sequencing pieces)
• 1 Visual Recipe Card
• 1 Sequencing Worksheet

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Life skills and functional / daily-living skills
• Following directions
• Following a recipe
• Sequencing steps (first / next / last)
• Identifying ingredients and supplies
• Receptive and expressive language
• Vocabulary (food and kitchen)
• Reading comprehension
• Putting steps together / executive functioning
• Following along in a book

📚 How to Use

• In a small group, work through the book and make a banana split together
• Have students identify the ingredients and supplies and sequence the steps
• Use the Visual Recipe Card to support independent following of the recipe
• Use the Sequencing Worksheet for extra practice and data
• Pull for speech therapy (sequencing, following directions, vocabulary) and life-skills / functional academics
• Use for a real cooking experience or as a no-cook sequencing activity

💛 Perfect For

• Special education and life-skills classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• Speech-language therapy (sequencing, following directions)
• Functional academics and transition programs
• Preschool, PreK, Kindergarten, and elementary
• Life-skills and cooking units
• 1:1 work with paraprofessionals
• Older students needing age-respectful functional content
• Summer and end-of-year activities
• Homeschool life-skills practice

🌟 Why Teachers & SLPs Love This Resource

• Brings real-world life skills and cooking into the classroom
• Targets sequencing AND following directions — key SLP and life-skills goals
• The Visual Recipe Card supports independence
• Includes a book, visual recipe card, and sequencing worksheet
• A fun, motivating treat students get excited to make
• Works for small group, 1:1, and life-skills instruction
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🎁 Save with the bundle! Love adapted recipe books? Check out my Adapted Recipe Books Mini-Bundle and Sequencing Activities Mini-Bundle.

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