A Dozen Ways to Use Muffin Tins in Sessions

Looking for new activities? Limited space? No time to prep? No problem. Just grab a muffin tin and gather small objects or print little images to add 12 simple activities to sessions. A muffin tin serves multiple purposes for a variety of skill levels and ages on your caseload. I use muffin-tin activities to target articulation, phonology, expressive and receptive language, vocabulary, and more. Try one or more of these activities : Focused stimulation. Use small objects or pictures with targeted phonemes. Have the child identify the targeted object/photo from the field of 12 after producing the target word. Production practice using targeted objects or pictures. Ask for three productions each time the students places the object in the tin—or takes it out—resulting in 36 productions. Complete this activity three times and the client or student has 100 productions. Reinforce. Metal muffin tin? Flip it over and use magnets to reinforce for correct responses, correct productions, or attending to the lesson. Matching attributes. Can you put together two or more sets of like items? Great! Let’s get matching! Sorting. Organize each row or column by a specific category according to class, color, size, or other attribute. Patterns. For our preschool and early elementary students, working on patterns supports their educational goals. You can use a muffin tin to work on a variety of patterns—like ABABA, ABCABC, ABBABB—by placing items in a sequence in each tin. You decide ba...
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