Christmas Prepositions Adapted Book | Santa Position Words Colors | SLP SPED

Christmas Prepositions Adapted Book | "Where Is Santa Hiding?" with Position Words & Color Identification

This Christmas adapted book teaches prepositions, position words, AND colors through an engaging hide-and-find format. Students identify where Santa is hiding in relation to colored elves on each page — building positional concept vocabulary AND color identification at the same time.

★ Two skills in one resource: prepositions/positional concepts + colors

★ Perfect for: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Life Skills Classes, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade

Sample Verse from the Book:

"Where is Santa hiding?

Where can he be?

He's BETWEEN the yellow elves,

As we can plainly see!"

What's Included:

• 1 Interactive Adapted Book — "Where Is Santa Hiding?"
• Position/Preposition matching cards for every page
• Colored elf imagery for color reinforcement
• Repeating predictable rhyming text for language building

Prepositions & Position Words Targeted:

• on top of
• under / below
• in / inside
• behind
• next to / beside
• in front of
• over / above
• between

Skills Targeted:

• Prepositions (receptive AND expressive understanding)
• Position words / positional concepts — under, behind, beside, on top of, between, etc.
• Spatial concepts and spatial reasoning
• Color identification and reinforcement
• "Where" questions — answering where Santa is hiding
• Following directions with prepositions
• Predictable repetitive rhyming text — supports emerging readers and AAC users
• Receptive and expressive language
• Vocabulary development
• Matching skills

How to Use This Christmas Adapted Book:

A teacher, SLP, or paraprofessional reads the adapted book aloud while students follow along, identifying where Santa is hiding in relation to the colored elf on each page. Students match a position/preposition card to each page as the teacher reads — combining preposition learning with color reinforcement.

Ways to Use:

• Christmas activities
• Holiday thematic units
• Small group speech therapy
• 1:1 instruction for targeted preposition practice
• Whole group Christmas language lessons
• Literacy centers and independent workstations
• AAC modeling (modeling preposition + color use on communication devices!)
• Following directions practice
• Color identification lessons
• Winter thematic units

This book is now part of a "Growing Bundle!" You can find it here:

Preposition Adapted Books Growing Bundle

If your students enjoy adapted books, there are many more in my collection. Please see my Adapted Books Collection below.

Complete Adapted Books Collection

For more hands-on winter or Christmas themed activities, please see the links below:

Hands-On Winter Activities

Hands-On Christmas Activities