Activity Spotlight: Who Pooped? A Matching & Memory Game

by Taryn Alper, MA, CCC-SLP/TSSLD

You know what makes children laugh? Talking about poop. Luckily for us therapists and educators, there are plenty of fun poop games on the market!

Today I’m sharing my success with the game Who Pooped? A Matching & Memory Game (Amazon affiliate link). Players take turns matching the animal cards to the poop cards. The full game is to match all 54 cards, but you can use as many or as little cards as your student or group can handle. Who Pooped? is recommended for ages 3+.

Who Pooped? targets the following skills:

• Articulation/speech sound disorders/apraxia

  • During teletherapy, I’ve had so much fun pairing this game with Bjorem Speech Sound Cues. This game was made for the /p/ sound. You can see the popcorn sound cue featured in my photos.

  • Use a carrier phrase as appropriate.

• Language expansion

• Asking questions

  • What’s your favorite animal?

  • Which animal did you turn over?

• Naming animals

  • There’s a booklet included with fun poop facts!

• Attributes/describing animals

  • The (blank) has (attribute) poop.

  • The illustrations give you plenty of attribute choices that I’ll let you discover yourself.

• Present and past tense verbs

  • The (blank) pooped (past tense -ed)!

• Regular and irregular plurals

• Intonation and prosody

  • Play with prosody and intonation to extend the vowel based on the player’s reaction to the card. You might hear an “Eeeeeew! Poooop!”

• Social skills

  • In person, you may have to play referee if your students are too excited to wait a turn.

  • The player with the most matching cards is the winner. Modify the winner rules based on your group.

Please let me know how you use this game!