Make Baby Sign Language Flash Cards

LOVE flash cards

06/07/2009

~ jason14

I was "just looking around" when I came across this video and had to purchase the lesson right away! It just seemed so easy and I know anyone can do it. Great! It popped up when I googled "learn baby sign language"

Flash cards

05/15/2009

~ loris

The video was easy to follow. Thank you. I have made other cards such as Bath, Sleep and Sister plus Please and Thank you.

Great..;o)

03/24/2009

~ alexmom

Great..just have a question my son is 18 months and not saying a word yet, i speak spanish to him my husband speaks danish to him and we speak english between each other..the flash cards should be in spanish??..thks..;o)

Edit by MB Admin:
Answer courtesy of Laura: Great question, if you are going to be the one using the flashcards with your son then I would recommend using Spanish words or you can even leave the English words and add the Spanish words underneath. You can always make two versions one that is Spanish and one that is Danish. It would definitely be a good visual aid to link the two languages!

nice idea

02/20/2009

~ terri3

As a person who does lots of laminating and printing the video didn't give me any new information. But i love the cards and will be printing and making them. I do daycare and am trying to teach my kids ASL, but i am learning also, so nice to have the signs on the back to remind me. I would love to be able to get to the point where i use it more and more. i am pretty sporadic about using it. thanks for the files, time is always nice to save. :)

Responding to jlcloud

01/30/2009

~ MySmartHands

I'm sorry you didn't find the lesson overly useful. I just wanted to show parents how to make their own cards so that they can expand on the words I already provided. The reason for 'avocado' is because most pediatricians in Canada are recommending avocado as a good healthy brain food because of the fats in it and it is hard to find the sign for avocado. It was one of the most requested signs from all of my classes. 'Yes' and 'no' would be easy for you to make if you'd like to but I find those concepts hard to convey in a flashcard. If you'd like to make drink it simply looks like you are holding a cup in your hand and are drinking from it. I encourage you to add to the collection that is already in this lesson. Anyone is welcome to email me if they are unable to find the signs and I can email them a description.

Not so useful 12/30/2008 ~ jlcloud

I'm not quite sure why there are words like "avacado" and "monkey" but no "yes" or "no". There is "milk" and "juice", but no "drink". I love the format, but am disappointed that it doesn't include these basics.

Great resource

01/03/2009

~ NatureGirl

Please see my review in the comments section.

Not so useful

12/30/2008

~ jlcloud

I'm not quite sure why there are words like "avacado" and "monkey" but no "yes" or "no". There is "milk" and "juice", but no "drink". I love the format, but am disappointed that it doesn't include these basics.

So impressed

10/30/2008

~ alexjurek

Laura thinks of everything-she's even provided the images for the flashcards AND left the family images empty so that the 'mommy' card includes the actual mommy of your family. This lesson is about how to make the cards, and I'd love to see one on the ways she uses them with her daughter; I was blown away to hear her sounding out the words on the cards!

Clear and very informative lesson.

09/02/2008

~ nachan

This lesson is great for teaching children how to read, write, and sign all in one! Thank you so much for adding PDF files. This makes it very easy to make my own flash cards!

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Questions?

05/20/2009

~ maritza

How do I download the pfd file?

Best video sharing website

03/15/2009

~ bibhas123

Nice video........
The best video sharing website, having the combination of Internet and TV is here!

Great gift idea

01/03/2009

~ NatureGirl

I made these for my sister for her 10 month old. It was fun picking out pictures of Mommy and Daddy and the rest of the family, and I even personalized some of the other ones with pictures I had of her baby. I would have liked if I could edit the cards, for instance one set of grandparents are Nana and Papa. I also would have liked to be able to resize the cards, and cut and paste the graphics into the file instead of with scissors and glue. In addition, with a file that could be edited I would have made cards such as "potty"; even without the sign instructions on the back these would be helpful.

I used laminating pouches that I bought from Walmart. They were about ten dollars for a pack of 30. Since I am too cheap to buy a laminator, and also have nowhere to store such a thing, I figured out how to laminate with my iron. Basically, I ironed at medium heat on a wooden board with a receiving blanket on top. I put the pouch in a greeting card (cardstock). After ironing about 10 seconds on each side, I let the card cool between two heavy books. This way there was no curling or bubbling and the cards were gorgeous in the end. I was thinking for my next set I might place a tiny magnet between the layers and then they will stick to the fridge.

This was a fun project and my sister's baby loves the cards. The pictures of the kids doing the signs are fantastic, and those images alone are well worth the cost of the lesson. Thanks, Laura!

british sign language

11/29/2008

~ fragglestorm

This is great. I would love to teach my kids this skill but as I am from England- I wanted to ask you whether you had sign cards etc for british sign language???

Can't make the payment...

10/09/2008

~ Carrie

Hi, there, I'd like to buy a lesson, however, when I try to make payment via PayPal, it keeps bouncing me back to step 1 when I press the "Place an Order" button... could you please advise how I can solve this problem? many thanks, Carrie

HI! Great job!

09/22/2008

~ marianagmello

Hello, I'm a brasilian English teacher! I found out your videos at youtube! I'm really impressed, your job is great! It shows that it is possible to teachy young learners new languages. I teach them as well, but English. I always use signs together with a word, they never forget! Now i see i can go deeper! Thank you for sharing this! Your daughter is lovely and really smart!
Hugs from Brazil

Thanks.

09/19/2008

~ vii

Dear Laura
Thank you for these card.I will start to use them to my subject(Now I study about sign language).Please tell me for cardsize,picturesize and frontsize.Maybe I doing another word.
thanks you so much!!

Thanks

07/23/2008

~ nelly_rivas_20

First of I would like to Thank You for making signing much easier and fun for my children . I have a 15 month old and a 4 year old.My baby knows 14 signs already. I started when she was 6 months, But i've been showing Baby signs videos since she was 3 months. Now my baby is at the point where i ask her for a sign like Apple, she does the sign and she picks up the card. My 4 yr old has also been doing great with learning her signs It is also helping her with her spellig.These cards really made it easy for both of my kids, Thank you yet again for facilitating the signing for me and my children.

if..

07/22/2008

~ PhotoTony

If I had kids I would totally teach them this
maybe i could start myself lol :D

Thank you so much

07/13/2008

~ chiffon

dear Laura
thank you so much for doing these cards. I will start to use them to teach my 6month old boy^ ^.

How to add your picture

07/09/2008

~ MySmartHands

Hi Kelly,

Great question as I'm sure other people will benefit from knowing how to do this.

1. What you want to do it drag a picture into Word.
2. Make sure that you have your 'formatting palette' up. You can find this under 'view'. On your formating palette you will see a little button that that will crop your picture.
3. You'll want to crop it and then resize it to fit in the spot that I've provided for you.
4. Finally, what you are going to want to do is put a text box around it. You can do this by making sure you have the picture selected and then make sure your 'drawing' toolbar is selected (you'll find this under 'view' and then 'toolbars') select the A button in the toolbar (text box button). You can keep the box around or you can select no fill and no color (these look like a little pencil and paint can).
5. Then simply cut & paste your picture with text box under Mommy (or you can write the word Mommy under your picture.

If you are having trouble, email me your picture and I'll do it for you and send it back to you (laura@mysmarthands.com)

Cheers!
Laura

personalizing

07/09/2008

~ KellyMcbride

I downloaded the files. I just don't know how to add my personal pictures to it. Can you help me with this? Thank you so much.
-Kelly

cool!

06/30/2008

~ plumbing

very smart idea and video also what was very cute was the baby doing the signlanguage in the beginning

attachments

06/30/2008

~ pedraja_2002

I was able to download them fine without having to buy the lesson. I believe they are free until August 1st you do have to have a mindbites account though.

files are now ready!

06/18/2008

~ MySmartHands

Hi Everyone,
Then files are now ready to be downloaded with this lesson. You have to sign-up for an account and be logged-in to access the files.
Thanks!
Laura

Great idea!

06/18/2008

~ Silly_Mommy

This definitely helps me remember which sign to use while teaching my son, as well as something he can have with him if family watches him so they'll know what he is asking for!

Files will be available soon!

06/17/2008

~ MySmartHands

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for watching my video. The team at MindBites will have the files available for download soon. Check back in a couple of days and they should be available to download for free during the craft contest. I will post a message on my facebook group once the files are ready: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7749175188
Thank you for your votes!
Laura

Attachments

06/17/2008

~ cellist86

I think you guys have to buy the lesson in order to get those atachments

Figured it out!

06/16/2008

~ TreeBag

You have to buy the lesson to be able to download the PDF files.
:)

Downloading PDF files

06/16/2008

~ TreeBag

I too can't seem to download the files for the flashcards. Do you need to buy the lesson to download the flashcards?
Thank you.

Cannot download

06/16/2008

~ lilymae

Hi I am unable to download the flash cards, please can you help

Thanks

Nicola

Great

06/15/2008

~ rehbeinamy

Great Idea. Just started signing with our daughter Maddie. She is 7 months old. She smiles at me while i sign with her. I love your videos and had noproblem downloading all the files. Can't wait till we see our first sign back from her....Funny our 9 year old picked it right up. She is signing to Maddie also. : ) Thanks for your help.

Amy
Mom to 3 girls.

Hi

06/15/2008

~ lct_thompson

I also tried to down load the files and cant? what can I do?

Downloads

06/15/2008

~ mimiwatts

Hi Laura
I watched the video..but can't download the pdf files. Any suggestions??

From MindBites Admin:
The lesson files on this or other lessons with supplementary materials should be available for viewing or downloading on the 'Lesson Files' tab once the lesson has been purchased - you'll see this and several other tabs between the player and the lesson description/overview.

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Supplementary lesson files:

• flashcard_pics_front.pdf
• flashcard_signs_back.pdf
• flashcard_supply_list.pdf