Bringing signing into your daily lives

As signing is still relatively new here in Singapore, I often get keen interest from parents, teachers from C's class (be it at her playgroup or the weekend gym classes we used to go to). One of the most common questions or should I say concerns is on sustainability.

"How do you bring signing into your daily lives and maintain that momentum?"

To be fair to the students from my signing classes, I will not be able to put everything down on this blogsite. But signing can be part of your lives through simple activities such as a walk in the park and signing to "trees", "leaves", "grass", "birds" to simple craft work which you can do with your toddler.

Additionally, you can also sign to books - I had great success with Eric Carle which had illustrations that were bright and colourful and the signing was to animals and colours which she has great interest in.

Further to that, I started bringing C for weekends accompanied classes before she was one and at that age, she was able to make sense of colours, texture, etc. Hence craft work was a big hit with her and truthfully, they are not that hard. All you need to do is to look for age appropriate ones but of course, bearing in mind that most of these craft need some sort of assistance and guidance from us.

One of the Baby Signing Time disc is on "outside" where it talks about the weather, etc. So when I taught C to sign for "Sun", we also did this craft together:

Here's some to share:

Signed to sun and introduced yellow

Signed to duck and water

Cate in action =)

Signed to fish, swim, water & blue