Baby Sign Language Flash Cards
The Baby Sign Language Flash Cards are a valuable teaching aide to grow your child’s vocabulary. Each of the 600 flash cards shows the word, an illustration, and the corresponding sign. Download and print from your home computer.
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The Flash Cards help you extend your baby’s vocabulary. Use the flash cards to teach words that you don’t encounter in every day life, such as giraffe and elephant. And use the flash cards to help baby generalize, so they learn that the word dog applies to many different dogs, and not just their pet.
- High Quality Construction – printed on thick board in large format (4″ x 6″) for durability. These cards are built to be well loved!
- True Life Images – each flash card has the word and a vivid real-life image isolated on a white background.
- Signing Reminder – the reverse of each card contains a diagram of the sign, with the starting position and the ending position for the sign along with arrows showing the motion.
- Versatile – these flash cards will find use beyond signing. Use them to teach reading and writing, and grouping games.
- 52 Basic Signs – airplane, apple, baby, ball, banana, bear, bird, boat, book, bread, buy, bunny, butterfly, car, cat, cereal, cheese, chicken, clothes, cow, diaper, dog, duck, egg, elephant, fan, fish, flower, frog, giraffe, grapes, hat, horse, keys, kite, lion, monkey, mouse, orange, pig, potty, sheep, shoes, slide, snake, swing, tiger, toothbrush, train, tree, turtle, and water.
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These are great. I love the great pictures. I printed these out and have them up in the nursery.
Great cards!
This is such a great resource! I have been looking for something like this for a long time, and just stumbled upon it today! Thank you for providing this :)
I work with a very diverse population and am introducing many new moms to baby sign language. I found these flash cards to be help but it did amaze me that all the photos of people are of only one race ex. (flash cards of; girl, again, happy, grandmother, grandfather, daddy, happy, laugh, sad, mommy, kiss, quiet, excited. I think it would be even more beneficial if they were more reflective of the all the different people that may be using them.
ADMIN – Hi MaiNhia,
We always welcoming submissions from our community. If you have a photo of little ones signing that will best represent your working group please send it our way and we will incorporate it in the flashcards. In the next few months we will be adding additional flashcards with representation for several cultural groups. We are glad you are here and appreciate your feedback and engagement.
I truly appreciate the fact you make your materials available for us to use however I feel compelled to provide feedback about something. The photos used on your flashcards do not depict a variety of cultures. In today’s programs we want to connect with a wide cross culture of people and it’s important to use multi-cultural materials. I hope to see a cross section of multi cultural representation in your materials soon. Thanks,
Chelley Correa
ADMIN – Hi Chelley,
Thanks for you feedback. We would like to make the materials as accessible as possible to anyone that is interested in learning Baby Sign Language. As part of that mission, we would like to depict many different cultures. For example in our books you will see a variety of races, ages, and genders represented in the diagrams.
The downloadable flash cards are not very diverse. We would like to show more diversity in the flash cards as you suggest. One challenge is that we use a lot of stock photography, and stock photography is not particularly diverse. If you or anyone else has more diverse high quality imagery we can use, it would be greatly appreciated.
How do you sign Barney? I have a little girl that likes Barney.
ADMIN – Hi Angela,
Names like Barney, are usually finger-signed (i.e. spelled out). But, we would improvise and use the sign for dinosaur (or purple dinosaur if they are more advanced) to keep things simple.
My son is 5months old. We speak mostly English in our home. I want him to learn Spanish as well as sign language. When I sign to him, should I say the word in English and then in Spanish? or will this confuse him. Is he too young to start using the flash cards?
ADMIN – Hi Sarita,
Many bilingual families use Baby Sign Language as the bridge between two language. I would just say the word in one language and make the accompanying sign. For example, saying agua, and making the water sign. Other times you would say the english water and make the water sign. With the common sign and the common context, your child will learn that agua and water have the same meaning.
This is such a great source!… I have been trying to get different words in sign for my daughter who has Cerebral Palsy.. I get so many mixed messages and different websites that require you buy a package of learning material that maybe we wont need in about a year once we have learned what we need to learn. I can now finally teach my daughter how to use the potty!
Thank you for the resources, I am going to be a stay at home granny for my grandson which is now only 7 weeks, but I am planning ahead to teach him all the things that my children did not get the opportunity to learn because i have always worked. This is great, THANKS
ADMIN – Hi Charlene,
Awesome! I love hearing from people like you, it is what inspired us to create the site and what makes us look forward to getting to work every day. Please keep us posted on his progress.