Welcome to the Instructional Video for Signing Friends – Poppy’s Book of Colours

The video is aimed at parents, caregivers, teachers, support workers and other professionals to pre-learn the signs for this story.  Watch and practise as many times as you need till you feel confident with the Makaton signs.  Then go ahead and enjoy signing the story with your Makaton user.   We hope you have lots of fun learning Makaton together.

Don’t forget you can reinforce the colours you learn within this book with one of the Singing Hands colour songs (e.g If You’re wearing Red, Mmm Green Frog, Sing a Rainbow, It’s a Rainbow, Yellow Bird, Down on Grandpa’s Farm, Baa Baa Black Sheep and more).  Happy signing!

Story Text and Sign Transcription

Poppy’s Book of Colours (P / BOOK / COLOUR)

Black bat (BLACK / BAT)

Blue sea (BLUE / SEA)

Brown bear (BROWN / BEAR)

Green frog (GREEN / FROG)

Grey squirrel (GREY / SQUIRREL)

Gold watch (GOLD / WATCH)

Indigo blueberries (INDIGO / BLUEBERRIES)

Orange carrot (ORANGE / CARROT)

Pink flamingo (PINK / FLAMINGO)

Purple grapes (PURPLE / GRAPES)

Red strawberry (RED / STRAWBERRY)

Silver scissors (SILVER / SCISSORS)

White swan (WHITE / SWAN)

Yellow digger (YELLOW / DIGGER)

Vocabulary and Makaton Stages

Core vocabulary

Stage 5

WATCH

 Stage 6

BLACK

BLUE

BROWN

GREEN

ORANGE

RED

WHITE

YELLOW

 Resource vocabulary

Animals Transport and Vehicles

BAT

BEAR

DIGGER

FLAMINGO

FROG

SQUIRREL

SWAN

Food and Drink

BLUEBERRIES

CARROT

GRAPES

STRAWBERRY

National Curriculum part 1

GOLD

GREY

PINK

PURPLE

SILVER

Other Resources

INDIGO

SEA

SCISSORS