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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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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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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Posted in American Sign Language, children's books, crochet, etsy, tagged ASL, ballerina, ballet, children's books, crochet, etsy, puppets, sign language on March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Doesn’t every little girl love ballerinas? After finishing Rapunzel, I had some new ideas for my puppets’ hair. I decided a ballerina would be the perfect puppet for trying a new design idea. Although ballerinas often wear their hair in a bun, I think girls love dolls with long hair; this ballerina [...]
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Wolves seem to be in every other fairy tale that I read with my kids. I guess that when they were written, wolves were a real fearsome beast. Here are a few of my favorite stories that have wolves in them:
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
I started a Scieszka/Smith collection before [...]
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February seems to be the perfect month to have a theme based upon feelings. Emotions can be difficult for kids to understand, so being able to have a sign for them can be helpful. Of course, along with the sign you really need to use your face to convey the meaning; the face [...]
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I just finished this darling new puppet last night during the Super Bowl. (Click the photos to see more in my shop.) I had to figure out her face and hair. I checked out several sites online with suggestions for putting yarn hair on a doll. Many of them expected more [...]
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