How much is signed first by starting with both your closed hands, four fingers touching the thumb on either side of your body, facing up. Then move your hands upward, with palms still facing up and fingers opening wide, and make a questioning face.
To sign together, we begin by making fists with both hands and bringing them together. Once the hands are together meeting fist to fist, we do little circles as if we were mixing cake batter.
To sign dinner, make the sign for evening by having your dominant hand travel with fingers together and palm down on top of your non-dominant hand, then complete the compound sign with the sign for eat, which is done by placing your dominant hand in front of your mouth with all fingers together.
The sign for "WITH" is made by forming the letter "a" with both hands. Place both your hands together, palms facing.
American Sign Language: "noon"Here is the "formal" sign for "noon." Noon is done with a flat hand pointing upward and resting on the back of the non-dominant hand. NOON: Memory aid: Think of the dominant hand as the "sun" and the non-dominant arm as the horizon.
American Sign Language: "breakfast"A popular sign for "breakfast" is a combination of "EAT and MORNING." BREAKFAST: This initialized version uses a very small rotational motion. Somewhat like eating a bowl of soup that you are holding a few inches away from your mouth.
American Sign Language: "afternoon"To do the sign for "afternoon" just hold your dominant flat hand at a "2 o'clock" position pointing ahead and somewhat up.
With your non-dominant hand, you make your flat palm face up. Then, taking your dominant hand with index finger and middle finger extended (to make a knife), tap or wipe down the non-dominant hand and curl the two fingers, as if spreading some butter with the knife onto the piece of bread.
To sign cheese, hold your two hands flat with palms touching each other. Rub the hands together. I remember the sign because it looks like you are rolling a ball of mozzarella cheese.
KETCHUP: After studying this topic and doing the research I feel fairly comfortable documenting that the "hit the bottom of the bottle" version of the sign for "ketchup" can use an "S" handshape, a "C" handshape, an "O" handshape, or a mix between an "S" and an "O" handshape. KETCHUP = "Cat up." I'm not kidding.
We sign soup by creating a bowl with our non-dominant hand and making a spoon with the index and middle fingers of our dominant hand. We spoon the soup all the way to our mouth. (Note that we sign spoon with a very similar sign, except we do not bring the "spoon" all the way to our mouth.)
American Sign Language: "pie"To sign "pie" show the slicing of a pie. Make two slices in an imaginary pie on the palm of your non-dominant hand. The cuts should form a wedge of pie. This version uses the same movement but the handshape is a "P."
Salad is super easy to sign: curve both hands and move them in a tossing motion, as if tossing a salad.
Transcript: Tomato! One hand is the tomato. The other hand starts at your chin (like the sign for red because the tomato is red) and it slices the tomato. Tomato!
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.
American Sign Language: "egg" or "eggs" The sign for "egg" is made by forming both hands into the letter "h." In one smooth movement, bring the middle finger side of your dominant "h" hand down on top of the index finger side of your non-dominant "h" hand. Move both hands down and out as if breaking apart an "egg."
The french fries sign looks like you are holding a french fry and dipping it in two tubs of sauce. Take your thumb and index finger on your dominant hand and touch them together, forming the letter 'F' in ASL.
Grab the fleshy part of your left hand with the index finger and thumb of your right hand. The left hand doesn't move. The right hand wiggles a bit as if getting a good grip on the meat.
To sign ice cream, form your dominant hand into a fist and starting a short distance above your mouth, move it down a little to below your chin, as if you were holding a cone and giving it a good lick.
Spaghetti in Sign Language
- Extend both pinky fingers and tuck the other fingers into the palms.
- Touch the tips of the pinky fingers together then, moving the hands in loops, pull them away several inches.
- This sign looks like you are showing a long winding piece of spaghetti.
To sign chicken, start with the bird sign. Take your thumb and index finger and make an open beak, while making the rest of your hand into a fist. Close the beak and bring it down to peck at the ground as represented by your other outstretched hand, palm facing up.
American Sign Language: "apple" The sign for "apple" is made by closing your hand and placing the knuckle of your right index finger against your cheek. At the same time, pivot the hand back and forth.
American Sign Language: "hotdog" The sign for "hotdog" is made by forming both hands into the letter "C." While moving your hands out to the side, change the handshapes to the letter "S" back to a "C" and to an "S" again.
Cookie, in baby sign language, looks like you are using a cookie cutter to cut out a cookie from a sheet of dough. Bend your fingers on your dominant hand into an open circle, then place your finger tips on your non-dominant hand and twist them back and forth, as if indicating the shape of your imaginary cookie.
Favorite is signed by tapping your middle finger on your chin. You take an open palm, indent your middle finger slightly, and tap it on your chin. The same sign is used for taste (sometimes with the finger tapped a little higher on the lips instead of on the chin).
