Visual Recipe Adapted Book | Lemonade Life Skills Sequencing | SLP SPED Autism

Build life skills, sequencing, and following directions with this Visual Recipe Adapted Book, "This Is How We Make Lemonade"! Students follow the simple recipe step by step, identify ingredients and supplies, and sequence the steps to make lemonade — 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 lemonade 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, no-cook cooking experience or as a 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 into the classroom — no heat or cooking required
• 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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