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Let’s learn some Christmas sign language with your kids!
Last year I interviewed Joe, the mastermind, and creator behind Terry the Monkey who creates sign language drawings, graphics and eBooks to help make sign language more accessible to kids and it is my pleasure to introduce some festive sign language fun!
Revisit the interview here: Sign Language With Terry the Monkey
As someone who is hearing impaired I wish I had learned sign language when I was a child to not only help communicate now I am older but to get my voice across then. Luckily there are a lot more resources available now and I enjoy teaching my kids little bits here and there so that we can engage and have fun together (because honestly, I am terrible at retaining any other languages!) With the festive season around the corner, here is a cool way you can do something different this Christmas, and perhaps you can communicate a little with someone who is deaf or hard of hearing around the holidays!
6 Christmas Signs You Need To Know
Joe has shared some of Terry’s signs with us today so you can make a start! Here are some of the Christmas sign language essentials:
1.Christmas
Sign Christmas by using your right hand to brush down across the back of your left hand. Then lift and close your right hand back onto the back of your left hand.
2. Christmas Tree
Create a palm-inwards triangle in front of your face with your hands and then mimic the downwards zigzagging motion as if you were drawing a cartoon Christmas tree in mid-air.
3. Decorations
Bunch your fingers together and at head height, move your hands away in small arcs.
4. Reindeer
Use your thumbs with open, faced out palms on the top of your head as antlers and then move them forward and apart as if tracing the antlers from your body.
5. Snow
Hold your hands up, palms away from you, wiggle your fingers and drag your hands downwards to simulate snow.
6. Presents
Hold your hands together, palms up and move them forward together as if giving a gift.
Sign Language Stocking Filler
In Joe’s new book where Terry the Monkey teaches a lot more Christmas signs
What’s in the book?
Easy to follow instructions and illustrations from snowman to sleigh, donkey, dinner and elf (plus loads more) of Christmas related signs
Where can you get it?
You can purchase the How To Sign Christmas book as a paperback here: (aff*)
How To Sign Christmas with Terry the Monkey
Other sign language books you can buy(aff*):
- How to Sign Animals with Terry the Monkey (British Sign Language edition)
- How to Sign Animals with Terry the Monkey (American Sign Language edition)
- How to Sign Halloween with Terry the Monkey (British Sign Language edition)
- How to Sign Halloween with Terry the Monkey (American Sign Language edition)
For regular signing updates and images that you can teach your kids, check out Terry the Monkey on social media:
Follow Terry the Monkey
Instagram: @officialterrythemonkey and @signlanguageforchildren
YouTube: terrythemonkeytv
Website: http://www.terrythemonkey.com
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18 comments on “Learning Christmas Sign Language With Terry the Monkey”
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this would be a perfect gift to my kids..this book is amazing and helpful for kids.
Brilliant way for children and adults to learn sign language.We love terry the monkey.
What a fun and thoughtful way to teach sign language to not just kids, but people of all ages! Terry the Monkey is the cutest character haha
That was fun to try. I shared it with my daughter and we had a ball trying these signs out in real time. Merry Christmas.
This book is so amazing and useful and I would love to buy it for my kids to learn from it. Wonderful.
How fun is this and something very important to learn in life.
Wey thoughtful post. I do know very basic sign language but never knew that there was a Xmas-vocabulary!
I love this idea and how it teaches kids sign language, looks like a great teaching too that kids will like as welll!
This looks like a fun activity to engage with the kids. Quite useful at the same time too. Thanks for sharing.
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I think it’s important for us all to learn sign language (esp as a young kids, because we pick it up more easily the younger we are!) My kids are learning sign language in school as I did and it’s nice to have a refresher course with them… love the monkey idea to help learn it! thanks!
I just love Terry the Monkey and his fun way of teaching kids sign language! When my son was in grade school there was a student who was deaf and therefore a lot of the kids picked up enough sign language to be able to communicate with him. Even though my son is in his twenties now, it’s something that’s stayed with him and to this day, he still talks with is hands an awful lot. x
This post is so inspirational and educational. I love the fun illustrations, they make it fun and easy to learn.
This is really fun! I don’t know how to do sign language but sign language Christmas sounds fun! Love the illustrations easy to follow!
Great info here. I have bookmarked it so I can practice the signs with the kids later.
This is really an Interesting post and this is my first time to see the sign language with terry the monkey
This is such a nice guide. Great fun photo for each sign. Very unique and informative. Thanks for this. I know others will be able to use it.
Oh wow, this is really an interesting way and yes we all must learn to communicate in sign language to have fun and engaged with impaired kids. Thanks for this, I will ensure that my son learns them and celebrate festivals with such kids who are not so lucky!
Oh I love this! We used to go to a baby sign class but we haven’t been for a couple of years now. Sign language is such a great skill to have!