Signing Resources and Ideas

Looking to shop locally? Meet our new Two Little Hands retailers!

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If you’d like to see our products in person and talk with someone about them, you can: take a class with your local Instructor visit your local retailer We’d like to welcome our new retail partners who have joined us this month: Name of shop {linked to site}, city, state (country if outside US) Name of shop {linked to site}, city, state (country if outside US) Name of shop {linked to site}, city, state (country if outside US) Name of shop {linked to site}, city, state (country if outside US) Thank you for supporting your local business owners! Become a Signing …

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Create a Hand-y Craft: Summer Scrapbook

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Make a summer scrapbook with your child this summer! Download page templates and directions now   Want more pages? Download these Signing Time sign checklists & more on our Resource Page   Summer Time = Learning Time Did you know you can get every video from Signing Time, Baby Signing Time, TreeSchoolers Science, and more with our digital subscription? Visit MySigningTime.com for details. Make this summer a learning time for your family and have a blast doing it! Ready to try it out? You will get the first 14-days for FREE! ($9.99 per month after the trial). “Access to so …

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Summer Activities with Signing Time

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Summertime is the perfect time to wiggle, create and play, so enjoy these fun activities to help you do just that. Have fun making a tambourine, tracking the weather, learning about healthy eating, and much, much more. Uddering Signs – Learn where milk comes from. Doodle Time – This group activity will help you practice signs with play and a drawing game. Family Tree – Learn more about your family while doing a fun craft. Water Cycle – With the help from an adult, you can learn about the water cycle.

The Advantages of Signing in the Classroom and Homeschool

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Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed., revised by Rose Turnbow Teachers in a classroom setting and families who homeschool their children have a wonderful opportunity to choose curriculum and activities tailored exactly to children’s needs and interests. Let’s look at some of the ways that signing with your child or class can be integrated into your day. Capitalize on learning strengths Children learn in different ways and through a variety of strengths. Sign language taps into tactile (touch), auditory, visual, and kinesthetic (movement) ways of communicating. Signing appeals to many ages, making it ideal to use when you are working with more than one child. …

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Screen Time for Children with Baby Sign Language

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With Baby Sign Language being a visual language is it okay to let your child watch the Baby Signing Time Videos? What does the American Academy of Pediatrics say about screen time with infants and toddlers? Screen time is the number of hours a person spends each day in front of a computer, mobile device, or television, watching movies or playing video games. Our living rooms are filled with smart phones, tablets, iPods, computers, televisions, movies, gaming system, and more. As parents we wonder what we can do to manage and optimize our kids’ screen time. In 2016, The American Academy of Pediatrics released media guidelines for parents of infants and toddlers. The guidelines had not been updated since 1999, and much …

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Spelling and Signing: How ASL helps with homework

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Our first experience with using the manual alphabet with spelling was when our oldest daughter was in second grade. Her teacher was fluent in ASL and he would use signs in the classroom to enrich his teaching. Each week he would have the students practice their spelling words by using the manual alphabet to decode each one (try it now). Then they would finger spell each word. This was one of our daughter’s favorite homework assignments! When we discovered that our second daughter had a speech problem, we included the use of ASL in her Individual Education Plan (IEP). It …

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Welcome to a World of Communication through Baby Sign Language

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We’re thrilled to provide so many free resources that will help you incorporate sign language in your daily life. Thank you for signing with us!   White Paper: Signing with Babies and Children A comprehensive summary of the academic research on the impact of signing on cognitive, linguistic and social-emotional development  Written by Dr. Claire Vallotton Michigan State University Commissioned by Two Little Hands Productions   Download Signing with Babies and Children Now Free Resources Baby Sign Time Parent Guide Download a Signing Checklist so you can track your baby’s progress. Baby Signing Time Progress Chart  Signing Promotes Reading Elizabeth Barrett …

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Snow Day Activity: Make a Feelings Signs Flip Book!

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How to make your Feelings Flip Book Print and cut out Feelings Flip-Book pages. Cut card stock in half to make your flip book pages. Pick a flash card, learn the sign. Draw or find a picture that shows the feeling of the sign. Glue the picture and both sides of flash card to page. Repeat for all signs. Punch hole and loosely tie a ribbon through it to finish your book! Help your child learn songs and signs for feelings in the Signing Time Family, Feelings & Fun video.

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