What is pink in ASL?

To sign pink, form the letter 'P' in ASL, then touch your middle finger to your lips a couple times, suggesting that your lips are the color pink.

What are ASL colors?

What is purple in ASL?

To sign purple, make the ASL letter 'P' sign (a fist, extending the thumb and the middle finger, with the index finger extended and bent down ninety degrees). Take your 'P' sign and shake it around in front and to the side of your body.

What is Strawberry ASL?

To sign strawberry, point the index finger of your non-dominant hand sideways in front of your body, and move all the fingers of your dominant hand around the tip of the opposite index finger, as if showing a round fruit.

What is milk ASL?

The milk sign is a lot like milking a cow (or goat), but without the vertical motion - you are just squeezing the udder. You take your dominant hand, make it into a fist, relax, and repeat.

pink - ASL sign for pink

What is pineapple in ASL?

Hold the "F" hand in front of your eye (as if looking through the hole in the "F") and twist it twice (as if adjusting a telescope). Another version of "pineapple" is to use a "P" (a "K" actually) on the cheek. Twist it twice.

What is Rainbow in ASL?

To sign rainbow, take your dominant hand with the four fingers extended and your thumb tucked in. Start with the dominant hand's four fingers touching the four fingers of your non-dominant hand as the latter remains stationary on its side of your body, hand held upright with palm facing you.

What is orange in ASL?

To sign orange, place your dominant hand near your chin, and repeatedly squeeze your hand into a fist and relax. It is like you are squeezing an orange.

What is gray in ASL?

To sign gray, move your open hands, palms facing your body, in a forward and backward motion, with your spread-out fingers passing through each other back and forth, as if you were touching gray, fluffy clouds.

How did Black ASL come about?

Because Black deaf students were prohibited from opportunities to interact with students and teachers on the White Deaf school campuses, this separation contributed to the development of Black ASL, a variety of American Sign Language that's distinctively different from those of white deaf students' signs.

What is white in ASL?

To sign white, place your hand on your upper chest, with fingers extended. Move your hand away from the chest while pulling all fingers together, so that you have all your fingertips touching.

What is red in ASL?

Make the baby sign for red by making a fist, and extending only your index finger. Use the finger to brush down on your lips. You can remember the sign because your are brushing your red lips.

What do the signs red and pink have in common in ASL?

What do the signs for "red" and "pink" have in common? They both incorporate touching the lips. People born Deaf are more likely to have a hard time identifying with the Deaf culture.

What is student ASL?

Sign learn by holding your non-dominant palm up, then taking your open dominant hand and spreading your curved fingers on your other palm. Next, pull your dominant hand up such that your fingers close into a flat O hand as you touch them to your forehead.

What is candy in ASL?

Candy is signed by taking your index finger and touching it just under the mouth area on one side of your chin. Twist the finger back-and-forth. We remember this sign, because it looks a little like you are drilling your tooth - the consequence of eating too much candy!

What is lemon in ASL?

Lemon is signed by taking your dominant hand and making the ASL letter sign for 'L'. Then hold your thumb to your cheek near the the mouth & chin, and twist the 'L' hand up and down as you make a sour face.

What is banana in ASL?

The baby sign for banana looks like your index finger is a banana and you are peeling it. To start, take your non-dominant hand and make a fist, with your index finger pointing up toward the sky. With your dominant hand, make a peeling motion down the pointed finger, using your fingers all together.

What is Sun in ASL?

In the first part of sun, you make a circle with your index finger up above your head and a bit to its side. In the second part, start with your fingers and thumb together, angled downward, and then spread them apart, like you are shining a lamp down on yourself. HOME / DICTIONARY / Sun.

What is fire ASL?

To sign fire, you stretch out and wiggle your fingers like the flickering flames of a fire. Form both hands in the open, ASL number 5 sign, with your fingers wiggling back and forth. Then cycle your hand up and down in vertical circles. HOME / DICTIONARY / Fire.

What is shower in ASL?

To show shower, place your dominant hand above your head and open and close it as if producing water sprinkles.

What is avocado in ASL?

To sign avocado, form the ASL letter A sign with your dominant hand. Then curve your non-dominant hand into a tiny bowl or cup and mimic scooping the 'avocado' off it with your dominant 'A' fist.

What is pizza in ASL?

Pizza is signed by taking your dominant hand, curving it into a modified, flat 'O' hand or an open palm with curved fingers, and move it towards your mouth, as if you are feeding yourself a slice of pizza. HOME / DICTIONARY / Pizza.

What is tomato in ASL?

With your non-dominant hand, make an O hand in front of you, then with your dominant hand held in a fist except for the pointer finger sticking out, make the sign for red and proceed to mimic a knife slicing your 'O' hand. The "knife" comes from your chin down to the "red tomato". HOME / DICTIONARY / Tomato.