Sign Language Telephone Game Remember the game "Telephone" from grade school? Well, with this game, you sign it instead of say it. So, everyone lines up or forms a circle without looking at each other. The first person taps person #2 on the shoulder and signs something to him or her. Then, person #2 signs it to person #3, and so on. Make sure the people further along in the line don't see! When the sign gets to the last person, you see how much it's changed! You can also do this by drawing on each others' backs. Great fun!
Animal Memory Game Everyone forms a circle and picks an animal. Then, you go around the circle and everyone signs their animal. The person starting the game (person #1) starts by signing another person's animal sign. The person whose animal sign person #1 signed (person #2) then signs another person's animal sign. So, not only do you have to remember your animal sign, you have to remember the animal signs of the other people in the circle! This is a great way to build animal vocabulary!
Deaf Bingo
This is great for teaching the alphabet and numbers. You just play Bingo and instead of shouting the letter and numbers, you sign them!
Facial Signs I totally made the name of this game up. We played this in one of my first ASL classes. It's great practice for facial expressions! Everyone gets into a circle and chooses their favorite sign. Then, the leader says a feeling, like sad, happy, excited, scared, etc. Everyone in the circle then signs their sign while showing this feeling. I chose the word SODA-POP. Imagine how funny that was when I signed it sadly!
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Hand Shape Game
I learned this game at a Silent Weekend when I was in the interpreter program. Lots of fun!
Have the class get into groups of 2 or 3, and hand each ...
SIGNO
SIGNO is a sign language game like Bingo except that the headings are handshapes. I have a template which students take and fill in with 5 handshapes ...
Vocab cards (scattered upside down on table at left of Line 1) are selected in turns, signed ...
Animal Game
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What you do is sign an animal sign, like SEAL. Then, the next person signs SEAL and then another animal sign, like RABBIT. The next person would then sign ...
