In this product‑preview video, Sasha from theautismhelper.com walks viewers through the "Baking Up Blends" packet, a collection of hands‑on activities and games designed to teach initial consonant blends to children, especially those with speech‑language challenges. The materials target both articulation (producing the blend correctly) and literacy (spelling and reading the blend). Sasha demonstrates each component: a laminated "Blend Bowl" sorting game using a baggie and spatula; a "Blend Recipe" activity where sounds are combined on labeled bags; a competitive dry‑erase scorecard; a series of worksheets that start with word‑bank support and gradually fade it; analogous‑blend writing worksheets; classroom posters; and two social‑skill games—"I Have, Who Has" and "Blend Bingo"—that reinforce attention, turn‑taking, and correct pronunciation. Throughout, she emphasizes visual cues, interactive fun, and progressive independence, positioning the packet as a versatile toolkit for educators and speech‑language therapists working with children who struggle with blends.
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This is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of Baking Up Blends: Activities and Games for Initial Consonant Sounds. So I use these activities to work on both the speech of the sound, so articulating the blend correctly, and also for spelling and reading the blend correctly. So it's kind of good to work on both of those types of skills. Blends seem to be really difficult for my kids, which is why I made so many games and activities to really focus on that and give it some visual cues. Thought that would really help them out, and they've been really loving using these. So the first activity— I have directions for everything, of course— but the first activity, I laminated this page and then cut— laminated these pages and cut each of these out, and then put this part right here on a baggie. So I have a baggie for B sounds, P, S, F, for all the different sounds. So I think there's 9 different ones here. So I have a baggie for each, and then when we pull one out, I work with the kid and we go through is "slip" a blend and is "sad" a blend and go through each one to sort and we put all the blends in the bowl. And we actually do this a lot with a spatula or a ladle, which they think is really, really fun and is a nice interactive way to do it. So this is a great fun activity for kids to do to work on sorting those sounds out and then practice saying the blends as you put them in the bowl. So that's the first interactive activity. The other one is blend recipe. So laminate this. This is a label for the baggie. And then you can practice putting sounds right here. So I'll put the B sound, mix B with R, and then we practice. Say, put the B, put the R, makes /b��r/. So just kind of to practice, you know, separating those sounds and putting them together in a structured way. And I made a scorecard too to get my little competitive kiddos, um, really into it. So I laminated this, so we use a dry erase marker, and they tally up which ones they've said correctly. So they get a big kick out of that. Next up, I have a bunch of worksheets and I made word banks for them because I wanted to start out using the word banks and then fade these away. So there are different sorting activities and here are the sets of words and then the corresponding worksheets. So when we start out, we use the word banks and then we kind of fade those out to see if we can do them by ourselves and think of our own words. Next are some similar worksheets but just kind of taking this blend sound and making— writing a word that has a similar similar blend sound. So swim sounds like swam. So find— thinking of another word, block, blanket. Um, these are really good to practice thinking of other words by ourselves and saying and thinking about them. And this is the same concept, sorting some words, words that sound like whisk, words that sound like spatula. So S-P-W-H. Um, there's a few different variations of that. And then here's some posters for your room. Um, They like this one, The Recipe for a Blend, because they really like that blend bowl game, but there's a few different versions of some just little cutesy things reminding them what blends are. And last are the 2 games. First is the I Have, Who Has. Here's the label for the baggie and all the cards. So I like to laminate these to keep them a little longer. So these are one of my favorite games to play because it works on social skills, building attention, and the skill. So students will say, "I have splash, who has smooth?" And the kid that has smooth says, "I have smooth, who has snow?" and it goes all the way around. And last is Blend Bingo. So there's a bunch of calling cards because I used a ton of different words, and then there's 10 different boards. So we play whole board in my class, but you can play, play 3 o'clock cross or 4 o'clock or 4 corners, whatever you want, calling out the words and putting bingo chips over the correct blend sounds. And I make my kids say them too before they can put their bingo chip on it to practice saying it one more time. Um, yep, so that is everything in the Baking Up Blends packet, and this was a product preview by theautismhelper.com.
