Signing Friends Brownie Girl Scout Try-It

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 Try-It badge you must complete four (4) activities. The **starred** activity is 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.**

  2. Songs: Learn the words and actions/signs to at least two of the following:

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

  3. Games: Play at least two (2) of the following:

    Charades
    Finger Spelling Bee
    Finger Spelling Telephone
    The Wild Duck Finger Spelling Game
    I Spy (A Sign Language Game)
    Sign a Tale (A Sign Language Game)

  4. Read a story about a deaf person.

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

  6. Sound waves: Do at least two (2) of the following to see how people can feel sound. (You must use earplugs or cotton in your ears to block out sound.)

    Put your hand on a piano when no one is playing it. Have someone play the piano while your hand is still on it. Can you feel the vibrations?

    Put your hand on a radio when it is not on, and again when it is on. Can you feel the difference?

    Use an empty cardboard tube. Placing tube opening over mouth, make noise or talk. Can you feel the vibrations?

    Lightly put your hand on your throat and talk to a partner. What do you feel? Can you feel the different sounds when you say the alphabet and your name?


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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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