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British Sign Language

This page provides videos of British Sign Language (BSL) signs for words relating to our preschool classroom topics. At The Elizabeth Foundation our nursery follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum.

You can search for individual signs, filter signs by topic, or see signs for words starting with particular letters.

How to use this BSL sign directory

As well as looking through the handy A-to-Z listing of all of these BSL signs, by using using the search feature (below) you can quickly find individual signs.

You can also use the filter function to show BSL signs for different topic categories. This way you can use them with your deaf child to develop their spoken and signing vocabulary around key early years’ topics.

BSL signs starting with A

Me
About Me
Garden
Acorn
Transport
Aeroplane
Me
All About Me
Animals
All Animals
Seasons
All Autumn
Christmas
All Christmas
Colours
All Colours
Easter
All Easter
Garden
All Garden
Home
All Home
Animals
All Minibeasts
Numbers
All Numbers
Animals
All Pets
Shapes Numbers
All Shapes and Numbers
Summer
All Summer
Transport
All Transport
Animals
All Wild Animals
Transport
Ambulance
Christmas
Angel
Emotions
Angry
Animals
Animals
Animals
Ant
Food Fruit
Apple
Home
Attic
People
Audiologist
Autumn
Autumn

BSL signs starting with B

Christmas
Baby Jesus
Fruit
Banana
Easter
Basket
Home
Bath
Home
Bathroom
Christmas
Bauble
Places Beach
Beach
Food
Bean
Animals
Bear
Home
Bed
Home
Bedroom
Animals
Bee
Animals
Beetle
Christmas
Bells
Transport
Bike
Animals
Bird
Colours
Black
Colours
Blue
Transport
Boat
Clothes Easter
Bonnet
Clothes
Boots
Home
Bricks
Colours
Brown
Garden Beach
Bucket
Animals Easter
Bunny
Transport
Bus
Animals
Butterfly

BSL signs starting with C

Food
Cake
Animals
Camel
Transport
Canal Boat
Transport
Car
Buildings
Castle
Animals
Cat
Animals
Caterpillar
Home Furniture
Chair
Body
Cheek
Fruit
Cherries
Animals Easter
Chick
Animals
Chicken
Home
Chimney
Body
Chin
Christmas
Christmas
Christmas
Christmas Tree
Shapes
Circle
Garden
Conkers
Home
Cooker
Animals
Cow
Beach Animals
Crab
Christmas
Cracker
Animals
Crocodile
Easter
Cross
Home
Cupboard

BSL signs starting with D

Garden
Daffodil
People
Dentist
Shapes
Diamond
Garden
Digging
People
Doctor
Animals
Dog
Animals
Donkey
Home
Door
Animals
Dragonfly
Animals
Duck

BSL signs starting with E

Body
Ear
Animals
Earwig
Easter
Easter
Food Easter
Egg
Numbers
Eight
Body
Elbow
Animals
Elephant
Body
Eyebrows
Body
Eyelashes
Body
Eyes

BSL signs starting with F

People Farm
Farmer
Christmas
Father Christmas
Body
Fingers
Transport
Fire Engine
People
Firefighter
Animals Sea
Fish
Numbers
Five
Garden
Flower
Animals
Fly
Food
Food
Body
Foot
Numbers
Four
Body
Freckles
Home
Fridge

BSL signs starting with G

Home
Garage
Garden
Garden
Animals
Giraffe
Colours
Green
Fruit
Green Apple
Colours
Grey
Animals
Guinea Pig

BSL signs starting with H

Body
Hair
Home
Hall
Animals
Hamster
Body
Hand
Emotions
Happy
Clothes
Hat
Body
Head
Senses
Hear
Shapes
Heart
Animals
Hedgehog
Transport
Helicopter
Animals Farm
Horse
Food Easter
Hot Cross Bun
Home Buildings
House

BSL signs starting with I

Food
Icecream
Buildings
Igloo

BSL signs starting with J

Animals Beach Sea
Jellyfish
Christmas
Joseph

BSL signs starting with K

Animals
Kangaroo
Home
Kitchen
Body
Knee

BSL signs starting with L

Animals
Ladybird
Garden
Leaf
Garden
Leaves
Body
Leg
Fruit
Lemon
Animals
Leopard
Fruit
Lime
Animals
Lion
Home
Living Room
Transport
Lorry

BSL signs starting with M

Christmas
Mary
Beach Clothes
Mask
Fruit
Melon
Animals
Monkey
Transport
Motorbike
Animals
Mouse
Body
Mouth
Outside
Mud Hut

BSL signs starting with N

Christmas
Nativity
Easter
Nest
Numbers
Nine
Animals
Nose
People
Nurse

BSL signs starting with O

Animals Sea
Octopus
Numbers
One
Fruit
Orange
Colours
Orange
Shapes
Oval

BSL signs starting with P

Animals
Panda
People
Paramedic
Animals
Parrot
Food
Pasta
Fruit
Peach
Fruit
Pear
Christmas Animals
Penguin
People
People who help us
Animals
Pets
Animals
Pig
Fruit
Pineapple
Colours
Pink
Food
Pizza
Garden
Plant
Fruit
Plum
Christmas Animals
Polar Bear
People
Police
Transport
Policecar
Items
Post
Transport
Post Van
People
Postal Worker
Christmas
Present
Colours
Purple

BSL signs starting with R

Animals
Rabbit
Weather
Rain
Clothes
Raincoat
Animals
Rat
Shapes
Rectangle
Colours
Red
Fruit
Red Apple
Christmas Animals
Reindeer
Transport
Rocket
Home
Roof

BSL signs starting with S

Emotions
Sad
Beach
Sand
Clothes
Sandals
Food
Sandwich
Places Beach
Sea
Numbers
Seven
Animals Sea
Shark
Animals
Sheep
Animals Farm
Sheep
Beach
Shell
Christmas
Shepherd
Transport
Ship
Clothes
Shorts
Body
Shoulders
Senses
Sight
Home
Sink
Numbers
Six
Christmas
Sleigh
Animals
Slug
Senses
Smell
Animals
Snake
Beach
Snorkel
Christmas
Snowman
Home Furniture
Sofa
Garden Beach
Spade
Animals
Spider
Shapes
Square
Animals
Squirrel
Home
Stairs
Shapes
Star
Christmas
Stocking
Fruit
Strawberry
Transport
Submarine
Beach
Sun
Beach
Suncream
Garden
Sunflower
Emotions
Surprised

BSL signs starting with T

Home Furniture
Table
Senses
Taste
Body
Teeth
Numbers
Ten
Outside
Tent
Numbers
Three
Body
Thumb
Animals
Tiger
Christmas
Tinsel
Body
Toes
Home
Toilet
Home
Toilet v2
Animals
Tortoise
Senses
Touch
Transport
Tractor
Transport
Train
Outside Garden
Tree
Shapes
Triangle
Clothes
Tshirt
Home
TV
Numbers
Two

BSL signs starting with U

Outside
Umbrella

BSL signs starting with W

Home
Washing Machine
Animals
Wasp
Colours
White
Outside
Wigwam
Animals
Wild Animals
Home
Window
Weather
Windy
Animals
Woodlouse
Animals
Worm

BSL signs starting with Y

Colours
Yellow

BSL signs starting with Z

Animals
Zebra
Numbers
Zero