15+ Fun TH Speech Therapy Activities for Articulation

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If you’re a Speech-Language Pathologist or a parent looking for a great way to work on your student or child’s TH articulation disorder then this blog post is just what you need! It has over 15 th speech therapy activities to make your speech therapy sessions more fun this school year.

Target Words – TH Final Words Speech Therapy

Here’s a list of final th articulation words for you to use in your articulation therapy or at home articulation practice to work on your student or child’s target sounds.

For Example: broth, path, wreath, bath, north, tooth, moth, math, south, cloth, oath, sloth.

See our full word list, plus phrases, and sentences here. Words are divided into simple syllables.

Correct Production

There are two different sounds in the English language that the th sound makes.

Voiced TH – Voice is turned on by vibrating your vocal cords.
Voiceless TH – Voice is turned off by NOT vibrating your vocal cords.

The most important thing to remember is that both ways are made with the same mouth position, however, one is voiced (by vibrating your vocal cords) and the other is voiceless (by not vibrating your vocal cords):

Tongue Placement: Start by putting your tongue in the right place by lightly placing the tip of your tongue between your teeth for the correct pronunciation.
Air: Then blow air through the mouth. This will naturally make the voiceless th sound.
Voice: The th sound can also be a voiced sound so your voice box or vocal cords should vibrate. You can tell that their voice is turned on by touching your voice box on your neck and feeling it vibrate.

Word Positions: TH Words Speech Therapy

Initial Position of Words

The initial position at the word level is when the th sound is at the beginning of a word. For example, “thick” or “that”.

Medial Position of Words

Some words have the th sound in the medial position of a word, such as “birthday”, “wealthy”, and “feather”.

Final Positions of Words

The final position of words is when the target sound is at the end of a word. For example, “earth” or “teeth”.

Ideas for TH Speech Therapy Activities

1. Older Students

Using real-life photos is a great way to help your older students work on their articulation words.

Final TH Voiced and Voiceless Words by Speech Therapy Store – Grab my one page freebie of final voiced or final voiceless th words with real-life photos perfect for older student’s needs when working on the word, phrase, and sentence levels.

Final TH Voiced and Voiceless Flash Cards by Speech Therapy Store – Come use our digital version of final voiced and voiceless th flash cards with real-life photos perfect for older students working at the word, phrase, and sentence levels.

2. Language Skills

Do you have a group of elementary students and some of them are working on their communication skills?

Here are a few ideas to work on the TH sound and language development together.

NO PRINT TH Articulation Monsters for Speech Therapy – Distance Learning by Jenn Alcorn is a great, no print activity to practice TH articulation that is engaging and great for early elementary and younger students.
Articulation Game Activity: /TH/ Find Your Word! By Speech Club Publications is a great game to build TH language skills. This Hocus Pocus/Fall theme game is great for all ages.
FREE Winter Speech Therapy Boom Cards by Speech Dreams is a great set of boom cards including the TH sound to practice articulation with your students in a ready to go activity!

3. Fortune Tellers

If you’re tired of using that same set of articulation cards then you should try another fun way to work on your child or student’s sound disorders by using a fun articulation game, such as fortune tellers!

My students can’t seem to get enough of these little games. Plus these fortune tellers are one of those no prep articulation activities.

You can even send them home for extra practice!

Cootie Catcher Freebie CYO – Create Your Own by Hello Mrs Sykes Jennifer Sykes is a printable, fill in cootie catcher template. Have your students write in target TH words (feel free to use our TH word list!) for extra practice!

Speech Therapy Articulation Fortune Teller Origami by Speech Therapy Store is a fun and interactive original activity! This pre-filled fortune teller targets TH articulation. This low cost bundle is ready to print and go!

4. Articulation Games

Who doesn’t love a good articulation game?

Articulation Games by Speech Therapy Store – these games make for a great list of free speech therapy activities.

5. Early Intervention

Here are a few speech therapy games that are perfect to use with your early intervention students.

Articulation Bug Splat FREE! TH initial -Distance Learning/Green Screen/No Prep by Lakeview Speech is a fun and interactive game to use with younger students to practice their TH sound.
TH Final Words – Articulation Therapy FREEBIE (Print & Go) by slpsmartdotcom – Eli Lowham is a great resource for early intervention practice of TH. This store also has resources for initial and medial positions too.
The ‘Th’ Song by Jonathan Dang is a simple sheet music activity that targets initial Th articulation. It is a simple and fun song to practice with students!
Cookie Batch Match Articulation Practice /th/ Boom Card Freebie Distance Learn by PomCat Speech is a highly rated and interactive set of boom cards to practice th at the initial, medial, and final!

6. Flash Cards

Flash cards are perfect when you need something in a moment’s notice for your child or student’s articulation sound practice.

Final TH Voiced and Voiceless Flash Cards by Speech Therapy Store – Come use our digitally interactive final voiced and voiceless th flash cards with real-life photos perfect for older students working at the word, phrase, and sentence levels.
Speech Articulation ~ TH Compare/Contrast Cards ~ Freebie by Speech Rocks is a print and go set of TH articulation cards to help improve the TH sound with your students. These are perfect to build into practice during a structural conversation!
FREEBIE “th” Artic Dolch Sight Words by Speech Duo is a great set of sight words with th!

7. Carrier Phrases

Using carrier phrases or sentence strips can give your students additional practice.

FREEBIE – “Would You Rather” Visual Sentence Strips for Articulation Carryover by Speech Queens is a set of 4 colored sentence strips
FREE: TH Articulation Game: “This or That” (SLP) Print out and digital by SLP Grad School Survival Kit is a great game to work from word to sentence level using target TH articulation.
FREEBIE: Roll-A-Sentence /th/ -Articulation Printables for Sentence Lvl Speech by Miss V’s Speech World are printable worksheets for students to work together on their th sounds and build a sentence. This is a great activity for individual work or group work.

8. Cootie Catchers

Are you looking for a fun and simple way that a speech therapist or parent can work on different words?

Then you’ll want to check out these different ways to use cootie catchers in therapy!

Cootie Catcher Freebie CYO – Create Your Own by Hello Mrs Sykes Jennifer Sykes is a printable, fill in cootie catcher template. Have your students write in target TH words (feel free to use our TH word list!) for extra practice!
Speech Therapy Articulation Fortune Teller Origami by Speech Therapy Store is a fun and interactive original activity! This pre-filled fortune teller targets TH articulation. This low-cost bundle is ready to print and go!

9. Articulation Bowling

Do you have students that need a more physical game? Another great game worth trying is articulation bowling.

Simply print out some articulation cards and place them on the ground. Then place a plastic bowling pin on top of each bowling pin. Next, give your student a plastic bowling ball and each time they knock over a pin they get to practice that articulation word!

Here are a few articulation cards you could print and use.

Mini Bowling in the Classroom by Peachie Speechie is a highly rated and interactive activity! Use your favorite TH flashcards with this game.

10. Articulation Worksheets

Here are a few articulation cards you could print on a sheet of paper and use in your speech room.

COLORING Articulation Cards: TH FREE! By The BeachyTherapist is an amazing set of 20 articulation TH cards to color in and then practice together.
Articulation Activity Booklets /TH/ by KI Speech Therapy – Kristin Immicke is a great set of print and go booklets to practice Th articulations in all positions.
No-Prep Articulation Coloring Pages – /r/ /s/ /l/ /th/ by Bilingual Speech – Language is a print and go resource that contains 10 coloring pages that target the Th sound.

11. Play Dough

I don’t know about you, but my little 4-year-old twins are obsessed with play dough. I always loved using it in the speech room.

Here are a few different boards you can use to work on your students’ particular sounds.

TH, SH articulation smash! By Speechie Goodies is a fun and interactive splash mat for your students to practice the target TH!

12. Pizza Delivery – Go for the Dough

Do your students love pizza?

Enjoy this great speech game of delivering pizzas while increasing articulation or vocabulary skills.

In this game, children drive their toy cars around the game board while delivering pizzas.

Have your students earn their turn by practicing their articulation words 1-3x from a list or from a flash card set.
As your students go around the board game have them choose a Super Dough Dollar. Each Super Dough Dollar has a skill to practice on it. You can choose one category/skill to work on or you can mix and match different categories to work on. For example, there are synonyms, rhyming words, opposites, categories, multiple meanings, and definitions.

13. Pom Poms

Are you in need of a great articulation reinforcement game?

Why not play a fun game of gluing down pom poms on a piece of paper as you practice each articulation word?

Fuzzy Articulation Snowman FREEBIE: Pom Pom Pictures by Panda Speech is an interactive, print and go activity that prompts students to place a pom pom on the appropriate th sound. This activity has a winter/Christmas theme.
Spooky Th-Sound Articulation Toss by Jen B is a highly rated game that prompts students to toss pom poms onto the correct target th sound.
Christmas Tree Articulation–Freebie! By Lindsay Versprille is a Christmas themed activity that students love! Put a pom pom on the tree to decorate it as you practice target sounds including Th.

14. Main Idea

When looking at the process of articulation therapy Speech Language Pathologists typically begin at the word level and work towards the conversational level. Here are a few ways to work on the th sound at the conversational level.

One idea is to work on identifying the main idea of a story while working on your th sound in conversation.

Articulation Text Messages Voiceless ‘TH’ Free by SLP Tree in an engaging activity that uses text conversation bundles to practice TH articulation at the conversational level.
/th/ board game by Nicole Rivettina is a fun and engaging board game that prompts students to answer questions that target TH articulation at the conversational level.
/TH/ Articulation Stories for All Positions (Fiction) by Love Speech Therapy by Betsy is a set of fictional stories and questions to practice Th articulation.

15. Sensory Bin

Using sensory bins can be a perfect practice session for any young children you have on your caseload.

Dinosaur Sensory Bin – Have the child or student request what items they want to add to their sensory bin or describe what they’re doing as they move things around and play! Possible th words (feather, gather, three, mouth, strength, south, north, thirsty, healthy, father, mother, brother, that, those, them, there, path).

Ocean Animal Sensory Bin – Have the child or student request what items they want to add to their sensory bin or describe what they’re doing as they move things around and play! Possible th words (feather, gather, three, mouth, strength, south, north, thirsty, healthy, father, mother, brother, that, those, them, there).

16. Favorite Games

29+ Best Speech Therapy Games by Speech Therapy Store – here is a massive list of my favorite speech therapy board games along with ideas of how you can use them during articulation therapy.

917+ Free Boom Cards by Speech Therapy Store – Boom cards can be very motivating for students who need to work on their articulation skills but who can get bored or distracted easily.

Do you Need Other Speech Sounds?

Be sure to check out our complete list of other specific sounds, such as vocalic r words, or s blends, and so many more that are perfect for your next articulation therapy room session.

In Conclusion: TH Speech Therapy Activities

We hope you have found this article helpful for working on your child or student’s th sound.

Speech-Language Pathology doesn’t have to use boring drills when it comes to articulation therapy. Instead, you can turn your therapy into a fun game with one of the ideas above.

Good luck!

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