Follow Directions with The Small Talk Bakery
by LIttle Speakers LLC © 2023
Price: $6 USD
Subjects: speech
Grades: 13,1,2,3
Description
Welcome to the Small Talk Bakery! This adorable 51-card deck is inspired by our school's special needs bakery program where students learn to create snacks, recipes, and drinks for staff — and now that real-world skill-building comes to Boom Cards in the most engaging format imaginable! Each card features a customer visiting the bakery to order a customized cupcake with specific flavors and toppings. Students listen to or read the order carefully, then turn the page and must remember the details to assemble the cupcake correctly for the customer. The orders start simple and grow progressively more complex as the deck advances, naturally building working memory, attention, and multi-step direction-following skills through increasingly challenging customization requests. The bakery theme provides meaningful real-world context that makes following directions feel purposeful and relevant rather than arbitrary, with the satisfaction of assembling each customer's perfect cupcake providing built-in motivation through every card. With 51 cards systematically building from simple to complex orders, this deck delivers comprehensive direction-following practice that transfers directly into classroom success, job skills, and independent living. Perfect for speech-language therapy, special education, life skills instruction, transition programs, and any setting where following multi-step directions and building working memory are essential goals!
Acknowledgements
EDUCLIPS EDUCLIPS animated CLIP ART LIBRARY Clean PNG PNG tree Nice PNG CLKER.com Whimsy Clips Creative Clips Pixabay Speech Doodles Clip art by Prince Padania my cute graphics FREEPIX Chirp Graphics Rainbow Sprinlkes Studio Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay Eleven Labs (text to speech) Pixabay plus the voices of my family helpers. Speech Doodles Clip art by Prince Padania my cute graphics FREEPIX Chirp Graphics Rainbow Sprinlkes Studio Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay Https://www.pngwing.com/en/free-png-bxphh/download