What is Shoe ASL?

To sign shoes, make your two hands into fists and tap the two together laterally. Imagine your fists are shoes and you are clicking the shoes together.

What is ASL clothing?

Clothes is signed by taking both open number 5 hands and touching your thumbs to your shoulders as you brush your hands down the chest a couple times.

What is store ASL?

The store sign is made by taking both your hands and touching your fingers to your thumbs on either side of your body. Then, holding your hands just above shoulder level, shake your hands back and fourth - twisting at the wrist.

What is rubber ASL?

American Sign Language: "rubber"

Hold an "x" hand near your upper right cheek (if you are right handed. Lefties do it on the left.) Move the hand forward and down. The "X" brushes alongside the cheek as you move it forward and down. Repeat the movement.

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.

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What is coffee ASL?

American Sign Language: "coffee" The sign for coffee: Think of the movement of an old coffee grinder. The bottom hand stays still while the top hand turns the crank.

What is new ASL?

The sign for new looks like you are scooping or shoveling up a new plant from the ground. Your non-dominant hand is flat, palm facing up, to signify the ground. Your dominant hand is a curved open palm that makes a scooping motion into the "ground" and ends facing up and above a short distance from the ground.

What is animal ASL?

For animal, hold the tips of your fingers on your chest and flap your arms like a bird. When children learn this sign, they will tend to simplify this to just flapping, often with clenched fists instead of open hands.

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 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 is chair in ASL?

To sign chair, with each hand, take your middle finger and index finger and hold them together. Take the two fingers of your dominant hand and tap them flat on top of the two fingers on your non-dominant hand.

What is blue in ASL?

The blue sign is made by making the ASL letter B sign out by the side of your body. Take your fingers outstretched with your thumb tucked under. Then twist your hand left and right out by the side of your body. HOME / DICTIONARY / Blue.

What is dress in ASL?

To sign dress, take both hands with fingers spread, and move the hands down the front of your chest to your waist area, leading with your thumbs. The sign for dress looks a lot like you are showing off your fine Sunday dress.

What is Rabbit ASL?

The bunny/rabbit sign looks like the long ears of a rabbit, twitching. Make both hands into fists and place them on top of your head, with middle and index fingers extended to make the rabbit ears. Bend and extend the middle and index fingers to the back of your head, as if to make the ears twitch.

What is bird ASL?

Make the bird sign by making a beak shape with your index finger and thumb and by bringing those two fingers together, while making a mini-fist with the rest of your fingers. Then tweet like a bird, by bringing your fingers together and apart.

What is horse ASL?

ASL: "horse"

The sign for "horse" is made by forming the letter "u" (or "h") with your right hand. Place your thumb on your right temple, or a little higher. Bend and unbend your first two fingers a couple times.

What is happy ASL?

To sign happy, take your open hand (or both hands) and brush up your chest a couple of times. The sign for happy is very similar to the sign for excited, but the difference is that with excited, your hands take turns touching either side of your chest and only the middle fingers brush against your chest.

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 ASL today?

To sign today, form both hands into the ASL letter Y sign, with your thumb and pinkie fingers extended and your three middle fingers curled in on each hand. Starting with your hands up, bring them down to your hip level. Today is signed exactly like now.

What is soda ASL?

To sign soda, form your non-dominant hand into a fist, or the ASL letter S sign, while laying it down on its pinkie finger side. Then forming the ASL number 5 sign, bend the middle finger forward on your dominant hand and press it down onto the crevice of your fist, suggesting the straw you insert into your soda cup.

What is tea ASL?

American Sign Language: "tea"

To sign "tea," use an "F" handshape on your dominant hand and a "C" (or an "O") handshape on your non-dominant hand. Want to help support ASL University? It's easy: DONATE (Thanks!)

What is chocolate in ASL?

Chocolate is signed by making your dominant hand into a C-shape. Take your non-dominant hand and lay it flat with palm down in front of your body. Take the C-shape and move it in a circle, with the side of your thumb circling on top of the palm of your non-dominant hand.

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 ASL aunt?

To do aunt, make a fist with your thumb sticking out near your face, at top of the fist. Leading with the thumb, move your hand in a small circle near your cheek (but not touching it). Expect your baby to start with a much simpler version of aunt.