Pretzels
Learn the ASL alphabet in Vol. 1. as well as the concept of fingerspelling!
Learn 28 ASL animal signs in Vol. 2!
Enhances fine motor skills through the string twisting process.
Teaches Matching concepts as well as ASL signs.
Learn 28 ASL animal signs in Vol. 2!
Enhances fine motor skills through the string twisting process.
Teaches Matching concepts as well as ASL signs.
- Fun and Educational Signing Game that is easy to use
- Simple Self-Check
- Works great at home, on the go, and any classroom setting
Signing Pretzel
Learn American Sign Language the Fun Way
Educational Advantages
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Cool Signing Kids
SeeMeTalking Cool Signing Kids
Our SeeMeTalking Cool Signing Kids came to life after a very long journey of searching for the right ASL illustrations that would be appealing to children of pre-K and elementary age. The best choice was to create our very own characters.
Please meet Mona and Max.
Mona and Max will help you and your children learn American Sign Language vocabulary. In our Signing Pretzel Vol 2, they show you how to sign animals in ASL.
Here is a message from Mona and Max to all signing kids:
“Hi there. Keep up signing. ASL is a Cool Langauge and we would love to see photos of you do your favorite animal signs. Send them to us and we will post them on the SeeMeTalking Cool Signing Kids photo gallery. Enjoy the Signing Pretzels!”
Illustrations
SeeMeTalking Cool Kids
Sign Language (ASL) Dictionary
If you are right handed, your dominant hand is the right hand and your left hand is the passive hand. If you are left handed, your dominant hand is your left hand.
The sign illustrations on the Signing Pretzels were done with right hand as dominant hand – since we as producers are right handed. But not to worry, if you are left handed, just do the mirror image.
A
B
BEAR
Cross your arms and claw your chest.
Memory bridge: Bear hug or the claws of the Bear scratching.
Memory bridge: Bear hug or the claws of the Bear scratching.
BEE
Make an F handshape with your dominant hand that comes to your cheek, then make a B handshape with the same hand and imitate brushing the bee away.
Memory bridge: brush the bee out of your face
Memory bridge: brush the bee out of your face
BIRD
Make a G handshape with your dominant hand in front of your mouth, open close the index finger and thumb.
Memory bridge: birds beak opening and closing like it is singing
Memory bridge: birds beak opening and closing like it is singing
BUTTERFLY
Open palms facing you, cross hands over, lock thumbs together and move like a butterfly
C
CAT
Place the open F-handshape at the corner of your mouth and while moving your hand out close the thumb and index finger to form the F-handshape.
Memory bridge: cat’s whiskers
Memory bridge: cat’s whiskers
COW
Place the thumbs of the Y-handshapes on your temples and twist them forth and back several times. 1 hand or both hands are okay. For children it is always nice to do both hands since they can picture the cow better this way.
Memory bridge: cows horns
Memory bridge: cows horns
D
DOG
With your closed 5 hand pat your leg several times and or snap your fingers.
Memory bridge: calling a dog to your side.
Memory bridge: calling a dog to your side.
DUCK
Place the dominant hand at your mouth, palm facing down. Open and close the index and middle fingers on the thumb.
Memory bridge: a duck’s beak (beak’s of ducks are broader than of birds)
Memory bridge: a duck’s beak (beak’s of ducks are broader than of birds)
E
ELEPHANT
Move the B-handshape of your dominant hand from nose in an outline of an elephants trunk downward.
Memory bridge: an elephant’s trunk
Memory bridge: an elephant’s trunk
F
FOX
With the dominant S-handshape under your chin, quickly flick out the index and middle finger twice.
Memory Bridge: a frog’s legs hopping under your chin
Memory Bridge: a frog’s legs hopping under your chin
G
GIRAFFE
Place the dominant C-handshape at your neck and outline the long neck of a giraffe by moving the dominant hand upward.
Memory Bridge: the long neck of a giraffe
Memory Bridge: the long neck of a giraffe
H
HIPPO
With both hands as Y-handshapes, tap thumbs and little fingers together a couple of times.
Memory Bridge: the wide mouth of a hippo with its four prominent
Memory Bridge: the wide mouth of a hippo with its four prominent
HORSE
Place the thumb of the dominant H-handshape at the side of your head and twist the index and middle fingers together downward a few times. Sign can be done with both hands, if signed by or for children.
I
J
K
L
M
MONKEY
With both hands as clawed 5 handshapes scratch on the sides of your chest.
Memory Bridge: Mimic the action of a monkey.
Memory Bridge: Mimic the action of a monkey.
MOUSE
Brush your nose with the index finger of your dominant hand a couple of times.
Memory Bridge: the mouse’s nose
Memory Bridge: the mouse’s nose
N
O
OCTOPUS
Place your dominant O handshape on top of your passive hand. Passive hands fingers pointing down, wiggling.
Memory Bridge: the image of an octopus swimming
Memory Bridge: the image of an octopus swimming
P
PENGUIN
Move shoulders up and down with your arms at your sides, hands extended outward.
Memory Bridge: a penguin’s walk
Memory Bridge: a penguin’s walk
PIG
Place your dominant hand under your chin and move your fingers together down and up several times.
Memory Bridge: pigs are dirty. The sign for DIRTY is very similar to that of a pig. Instead of moving your fingers down and up, you wiggle your fingers under your chin to sign DIRTY.
Memory Bridge: pigs are dirty. The sign for DIRTY is very similar to that of a pig. Instead of moving your fingers down and up, you wiggle your fingers under your chin to sign DIRTY.
Q
R
RABBIT
Cross both H-handshaped hands at wrist and move index and middle fingers towards your chest.
Memory Bridge: the ears of a rabbit
Memory Bridge: the ears of a rabbit
S
SNAKE
With your dominant, bend V-handshape, make zig-zag movements away from your body.
Memory Bridge: showing the snake’s fangs, the snake is slithering
Memory Bridge: showing the snake’s fangs, the snake is slithering
SPIDER
With both bend 5-handshapes, cross hands at wrist, palms facing down and wiggle all ten fingers.
Memory Bridge: the spider walking
Memory Bridge: the spider walking
SQUIRREL
Tap fingers of the bend V-handshapes together in front of your body.
Memory Bridge: the squirrel’s teeth working on cracking a nut
Memory Bridge: the squirrel’s teeth working on cracking a nut
T
TIGER
With both bend 5-handshapes at your cheek, move the hands backward along your face.
Memory Bridge: the tiger’s stripes on the face
Memory Bridge: the tiger’s stripes on the face
TURTLE
Cover you passive hand – A-handshape with thumb pointing upward – with your dominant hand and then wiggle the thumb of your passive hand a few times.
Memory Bridge: the turtle’s head coming out of the shell
Memory Bridge: the turtle’s head coming out of the shell
U
V
W
WOLF
With your dominant bend 5-handshape at your nose pull your hand away from the nose into a flat O-handshape.
Memory Bridge: the wolf’s long nose
Memory Bridge: the wolf’s long nose
Y
Z
The Story
The Story behind the Signing Pretzel™
We are so very excited to share with you our very first ASL signing product.
By "We" I mean, Birgit, creator of SeeMeTalking LLC, her husband Markus who did all the sign illustrations and was in charge of the production proccess and our 3 signing children who had the fun of testing many different versions of the Pretzel.
Birgit, after teaching ASL for many years in pre-K and elementary school, realized that there are not a lot of ASL products out there which are hands-on and fun for older kids to play with. The idea of a matching game came to our mind and was explored until we finally decided to creating the Signing Pretzel, a hands-on, self-check ASL signing game for kids of ages 3 and up.
It took us many exciting months of hard work: creating the right sign illustrations that appeal to children of pre-K and elementary school age, picking a cool name for our product, design the outline for the Pretzel, so it would be easy for kids to use and last but not least having the Pretzel manufactured. It was one big moment for us to get 18 packages (a total weight of 700 pounds!) delivered to our door mid October 08.
I hope you and your children will enjoy the Pretzels.
We would love to hear your comments, post your signing photos on our webpage.
Happy Signing,
Birgit & Family
THANK YOUs
SeeMeTalking would like to give a big THANK YOU to Barbara Granoff, for her open ear during the Pretzel Project and the many suggestions she contributed to make the Pretzel a great product for all the signing children out there. A thanks also to Stacy Thompson for commenting on our SeeMeTalking Cool Signing Kids.
Special THANK YOU goes to Birgit’s two Deaf ASL teachers: Kim and Kent, who verified all the signing illustrations the Pretzel uses.
Instructions
Slide out the Pretzel that you want to work on.
Start by wrapping string around back to top first notch (1).
Start by wrapping string around back to top first notch (1).
Find the matching image on the bottom and put string
through this notch and continue with the next notch (2)
on the top, and so on.
through this notch and continue with the next notch (2)
on the top, and so on.
When finished, you can check
on the back side if you got it all correct.
on the back side if you got it all correct.