Signing Friends Junior Girl Scout Badge

Girl Scouts of the South Jersey Pines

The creation of this badge was a Silver Award Project by
Elizabeth N. Rouse, Cadette Girl Scout, Troop 63, Mount Laurel, NJ, 1992.

To earn this badge you must complete six (6) activities. The **starred** activities are required.

If you complete this badge, contact the GSSJP Newfield Service Center to get your badges.


  1. **Learn the American Manual Alphabet. Be able to sign your name and the names of at least four friends.**

  2. Songs: Learn the actions/signs to at least four (4) of the following:

    Taps
    Little Bunny Foo-Foo
    In a Cabin in the Woods
    We Change the World
    Kum Ba Ya
    Brownie Smile Song
    Indian Silent Grace
    My Hat

  3. Games: Play at least four (4) of the following:

    Charades
    Finger Spelling Telephone
    Finger Spelling Bee
    The Wild Duck Finger Spelling Game
    I Spy (A Sign Language Game)
    Forbidden Seeds (A Sign Language Game)
    Letter Link (A Sign Language Game)
    Sign a Tale (A Sign Language Game)
    Dizzy Descriptions (A Sign Language Game)

  4. Read a story about a deaf person.

  5. Learn to count with ASL (American Sign Language).

  6. **Use earplugs or cotton balls during a meeting. Change with a buddy halfway through the meeting (half of troop will be "deaf," half will be hearing at any time).**

    Write down how you felt when you were "deaf." How did you communicate with others in your troop? How did they communicate with you? What difficulties did you have (if any)? What could you do to make it easier for a deaf person to join your group?

  7. Write and perform a skit about a deaf person who wants to join your Girl Scout troop.

  8. **Learn the Girl Scout Promise in Sign Language. Share this with others.**

  9. Compare Indian Sign Language and ASL (American Sign Language). Are there any signs that are similar?


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Resource Materials:

Manual Alphabet and Signs:

  1. A Show of Hands, by Mary Beth Sullivan and Linda Burke
  2. Brownie Handbook
  3. Finger Spelling Fun, by David A. Adler
  4. Handtalk: An ABC of Finger Spelling and Sign Language, by Remy Charlip and Mary Beth Miller
  5. Handtalk Zoo, by George Ancona and Mary Beth Miller
  6. Indian Sign Language, by Robert Hofsinde
  7. Indian Signs and Signals, by George Fronval and Daniel Dubois
  8. My First Book of Sign, by Pamela J. Baker
  9. North American Indian Sign Language, by Karen Liptak
  10. Sesame Street Sign Language ABC, with Linda Bove
  11. Sesame Street Sign Language Fun, with Linda Bove
  12. Sign Langage Talk, by Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker
  13. Sign Language: A First Book, by Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker

Games:

  1. Finger Spelling Fun, by David A. Adler
  2. Sign Language: A First Book, by Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker

Stories:

  1. Jessi's Secret Language (The Babysitters Club Book #16), by Ann Martin
  2. Sign Language: A First Book (Chapter 4), by Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker
  3. Words in Our Hands, by Ada B. Litchfield

Songs:

  1. Brownie Handbook
  2. Brownies' Own Songbook
  3. We Change the World (cassette), by Melinda Caroll
  4. We Change the World (VHS, signing instruction only)
  5. Wee Sing Fun 'n' Folk, by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp (cassette and book)
  6. Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays, by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp (cassette and book)
  7. Wee Sing and Play, by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp (cassette and book)
  8. Wee Sing Silly Songs, by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp (cassette and book)



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