something special / baby signing fans - can you tell me what this means?

[gigglinggoblin]

ds3 (14 months) has been doing a bit of baby signing and picks new signs up quite quickly. after watching an episode or two of something special (on his own ) he has come up with the sign for apple and one other which i dont know!

so what does it mean when he flaps one arm like a chicken wing?

obviously this might not be completely accurate but he is getting very annoyed with me and help would be appreciated. tia

[Jimjams]

ask in SN- lots of people use Makaton - or ask in one of the MVDP forum- plenty of tutors in there.

[TracyK]

does it mean chicken?? and he's just doing 1 arm?

[gigglinggoblin]

thanks jimjams, dont know why on earth i didnt think to look on the cbeebies site, just thought it would be impossible to google for so didnt!

[gigglinggoblin]

good thought tracey but it seems to be food related and we are veggie!

[TracyK]

Maybe a chicken carrying a carrot under 1 arm?

[gigglinggoblin]

lol

[sommer2000]

I don't know when he started doing it? They did vehicles yesterday. train one was moving one arm by they side in a sort of circular motion. This could look quite chicken like
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[bluebear]

Could be biscuit - (my kids picked up that one very quickly - what a surprise) - it should be touching your hand to your opposite elbow (which dd does) but ds interprets it as flapping your elbow.

[gigglinggoblin]

i suppose he could be doing chicken, but he seems to be doing it with a purpose. usually the purpose is to get food, i just wasnt sure what sort of food. biscuit is definitely possible, hadnt thought he might have adapted it the way he has. thanks bluebear, think you might be the winner!

[Pol25]

could be signing train??? moving arm in small circle like a stem trains thingie goign round- could be flapping...?!