For this playgroup, I used the names of some common toys as well as action words.
BOOKS:
For this playgroup, I used some nursery rhymes.
Jack Be Nimble can be used for jump and fast (quick.)
Hey Diddle Diddle can be used for cat, cow, jump, moon, dog, laugh, to see, dish, ran, with, spoon, fun.
Humpty Dumpty can be [...]
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Young children are just beginning to discover the world around them. For toddlers and preschoolers, the neighborhood is their world. So, learning signs for the places and people in their neighborhood seems like an important theme.
BOOKS:
I had a hard time finding the perfect book or set of books for this theme. Perhaps [...]
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Posted in American Sign Language, children's books, crochet, etsy, tagged ASL, children's books, crochet, etsy, frog prince, Jon Scieszka, puppet, sign language on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I showed you these a few days ago, so now it is time to show you my finished puppet. I am really happy with how he turned out. He is a lovely shade of bright green, with a huge smile. His crown is complete with red and purple beads.
Now I just need [...]
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I have finally returned to my puppets and worked on making some arms with hands the other evening. Any ideas whose hands these will be? If you have been paying attention, you can probably guess. Here is a hint: think fairy tales….
I just finished this and mailed it off for a [...]
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I completed writing out, taking photos, and having others check out my Big Bad Wolf puppet pattern recently and am braving offering it for sale. Now for the fun part. To launch my pattern selling debut, I am going to give away the pattern to a blog reader this week.
Here is what you [...]
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Posted in American Sign Language, children's books, tagged ASL, Brown Bear, children's books, children's crafts, children's games, children's songs, colors, Dog's Colorful Day, Leon the Chameleon, Magpie Magic, Mouse Paint, My Crayons Talk, playgroup, sign language, Signing Time on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Teaching toddlers and preschoolers to recognize colors by name is a popular theme without even considering teaching the ASL signs to go with them. There are many resources available to teach colors that can be adapted to learning the ASL signs. I have compiled a few of my favorites here that I have [...]
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Posted in American Sign Language, children's books, crochet, tagged alphabet, ASL, children's books, crochet, Jan Brett, Karen Cushman, letter, M, Michael Dorris, Morning Girl, pillow, sign language, The Midwife's Apprentice, The Mitten on March 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just finished making this pillow for my youngest daughter. She loves purple and picked out the yarn with me at the craft store. She brought it with her to bed tonight and as we were saying our good nights, she turned it upside down and told me, “This is what a W looks [...]
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Posted in children's books, tagged baking, basket, Carol Heyer, chick, children's books, cookies, Easter, egg, rabbit on March 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My mother in law was kind enough to purchase some Easter themed cookie cutters for us to use this year. We made the dough yesterday and rolled, baked and decorated today. As you can see from the different cookies, I have a three and a six year old. We used plastic bags [...]
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Posted in American Sign Language, children's books, crochet, etsy, tagged ASL, ballerina, crochet, etsy, fairy tale, puppet, sign language, The Red Shoes on March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After making my first ballerina puppet with the standard pink tutu, I decided to think about fairy tales a bit and come up with a ballerina from a fairy tale. I remembered I used to listen to Kate Bush when I was younger and had a cd called “The Red Shoes.” The song [...]
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Why are farm animals so popular in children’s books and why do we spend so much time teaching our babies how to make animal noises? I am not sure, but I do know that animal themes are easy to plan and great for engaging young children. I like doing a farm animal theme [...]
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