Adjectives Mystery Box

I was cleaning up this past weekend and was throwing out tons of old shoe boxes.  I stopped myself and grabbed one.  I brought it to work thinking, "there MUST be something I can use this for!"  So I grabbed some construction paper, a scissor, and markers, and I had a mystery box! 

I turned the box on it's side, I felt it was easier to cut a hole from the opening.  Then I taped it shut and covered it in construction paper.  I had some students that came to speech a little earlier then the rest of their group, keep busy by decorating the box with question marks!

I grabbed a few trinkets around my therapy room to throw into the box.  I wanted to find obvious items and some more difficult to guess.  Some items I used included: a toy car, a stress ball, an eraser, a crayon, and magnetic letter.

I used this box to work on describing using adjectives and inferences.  I knew this would be difficult for some, so I created a file folder as a guide board to provide models and prompting.

On one side, I made a sequencing strip.  Students were to follow this schedule to know how to play this game.  I made two versions for the different levels that I have.

Grab level 1 here

Grab level 2 here

The other side contains examples of adjectives.  I included the most common and one they would think of when putting their hands into the mystery box.

Grab adjective pictures here

On the front of the file folder, I included some sentence strips to encourage expanded utterances.  It also helped remind the students what was expected of them.  get it here!

Now you are ready to play and learn!!  My students had so much fun taking turns, reaching into the box and using their adjectives to guess what they feel.  They then got to take it out and see what they felt.  As a group, we discussed how they did, what made them think of the adjectives they said.  We corrected those that needed to be corrected.  We even made a chart on my dry erase board of the items we found and some adjectives to describe them.  We had a blast!

Have you made a mystery box for your therapy room??  What have you tried?!  Feel free to share!!!