Feed me boxes for speaking activities for ESL students

 For the little ones I love to create new and fun things for Speaking. The feed me boxes are so great for that. They all want to participate. You just need a cutout to place onto a box. Also, you need the cutouts to feed. It can be clip art cutouts, magazine cutouts, worksheets cutouts or anything that you might think of.

It can be obviously used in the classroom but you must be wondering how can I pull that out online. Well, make a small one and have the students dictate which word should be put into the feed me box character.

Here are some of my activities.

1.    Make a feed me box out of a cereal box. I printed this clip art that I included in the Seasons theme. It fitted perfectly. I opened the mouth hole with an x-acto knife and scissors. The worksheets that the students had to work  with were cut into cards and inserted into the mouth.  Teacher: Feed the butterfly to the Old Lady!

      You can check this blog post here:  https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2019/05/seasons-unit-worksheets-for-preschool.html

I also used a cereal box for the farm animals.Here is the blog post link: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2016/10/farm-animals-theme-for-preschool-ell.html

Make another feed me box using a bigger box from the supermarket. I covered the box with a pink paper and then glued the Monster clipart. This is for the alphabet theme.  Here is the link to this blog post: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2018/10/alphabet-printable-flashcards-and_16.html 

I made worksheets that are turned into small cards. Students can feed the monster as they say a sentence.  Students: Eat the orange!

                               

    This day I didn’t have a box ready for the spider, so I had this lid of a box and used it. The activity was what do insects eat ? In this case, spiders eat insects, flies, mosquitoes and cockroaches. Feed the spider as you ask Do spiders eat snails?  The students would answer NO! so, you won’t feed it. Then, ask Do spiders eat butterflies? Students will agree and you will feed the spider.Here is the blog post link: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2016/12/insects-worksheets-and-more-for.html

                            

   I made feed me boxes out of small boxes for smaller characters. Here is for feeding the Zoo Animals.  The same thing as above, What does the giraffe eat? The giraffe eats leaves.

Make feed me boxes out of toilet paper tubes. Just glue a small cutout onto the front of each tube, cut a small slit on the mouth of each pet. Have the students feed each pet that the given animal can eat. They can say sentences such as: Rabbit eat carrots!

Here is the link to the blog post: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2016/04/pet-activities-for-preschool-ell.html

Feed me plates. For making these you need 3 paper plates. Glue the like and don’t cutout onto each plate. Cut one plate in half and glue the mouth half of the cutout onto each one. Then, glue this part onto the plate. Use the plates for sentences such as: I like potatoes! I donn’t like carrots! Students can say sentences for their own  food likes. Save the plates for all the food units.Here is the link to the blog post. https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2016/02/vegetables-activities.html

  I made another feed me box using a recycled mashed potato box from the kitchen. I glued a white paper onto the front and then glued the mom cutout and cut a slit on the mouth. Then, have the students feed the family members as they speak.

    

For older kids make the same fun feed me boxes but for feeding words they can read. Here is the link to the blog post. https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2019/01/possessive-pronouns-nouns-adjectives.html

I will keep making more feed me boxes for speaking activities. Please follow me for more! Add your email to the follow by email box on the column on the right.