Rain in Sign Language
Learn how to sign rain in ASL (American Sign Language). You’ll get a chance to practice it whenever the weather allows!
- Bring both hands up to about head height, palms down, and fingers spread open.
- Bend your wrists up and down as you draw your hands down to about waist height.
- This sign looks like raindrops coming down from the sky. Use this visual to help you remember the sign.
Teaching Tips – to learn how to sign rain in ASL
- Make it rain indoors! Buy a small watering can to use in the tub or the sink. Practice pouring out the water and then signing rain.
- Sign language with babies is easy when you can use what’s naturally happening around you to teach! When it rains, spend some time at the
window with baby looking at the rain and signing together. If it isn’t too chilly, step outside in the rain and feel it on your face and hands and then sign rain some more!
Transcript:
Rain. Open your hands and let them fall down from the sky. Your fingers are like raindrops. Rain.
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