A guest article submitted to BabySignsDVD.com
We have 10 grandchildren between two daughters, and both of them like to teach their children to sign before they can talk. My wife had learned to sign during her years of volunteering at the nursing home nearby. One of the residents was uniquely handicapped. He couldn’t see, hear, or speak. She would make signs and he would feel her hands to get the meaning, and some of the older grandchildren would go with her and do the same thing.
My wife was the only one that could communicate with this poor fella as none of the staff at the home knew any sign language at all.
She is always looking for new ways to have fun with the grandchildren, and the other day she came up with an idea. She turned off all the lights in a room and used a battery lantern to make hand silhouettes on the wall. We have probably all done that at one time or the other and called it hand puppets. It’s easy to make the donkey, the bird, and a few other things.
We started signing and throwing the silhouette on the wall and the kids joined right in and had a blast. Not every sign works in silhouette but enough do. If you’re teaching your kids. Try it and it might work for you. We are thinking the same lantern, similar to this battery camping lantern, would work in a tent.
Everybody that’s ever camped in a tent has made silhouettes on the walls of the tent, and with a good battery lantern it would be safe and you wouldn’t have to worry about fire or carbon monoxide.
