ASL Easter

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Across
  1. 2. Hold your hand up in front of your neck and chin area then flutter the fingertips.
  2. 3. Uses both hands. Relax both hands, bending the fingers at the knuckles so they rate 90 degree angles. Bring one hand up towards the eyes, and the other hand at the chest. Bring the hands out and away from you, straightening and bending the fingers again as you draw them out.
  3. 7. One arm is extended slightly away from the body and the hand in a relaxed "5" handshape. The other hand is in a "B" handshape that is swung back and forth from the crux of the elbow toward the wrist of extended arm.
  4. 10. Close the fist of your dominant hand with thumb outside and start it off about a foot from your mouth, then have your fist travel to the side of your mouth, while opening and closing the mouth a couple of times.
  5. 12. The popular Easter candy - you spell the letters in ASL handshapes.
  6. 13. Dominant "A" hand with palm facing left if right-handed and its thumb in contact with chin moves from the chin to under the palm of the non-dominant palm-down curved hand.
  7. 14. Hold your fingers and thumb together, move your pinched fingers from one side of your nostril to the other.
  8. 16. Have your open, curved one hands touching with palms facing down, then move your hands toward elbow in a curve as if make a bowl under arm.
  9. 17. Starts with an index finger to the lips and then places a flat hand on top of the thumb-side of the non-dominant "S"-hand.
  10. 18. Forming both hands into the letter "h." In one smooth movement, bring the middle finger side of your dominant "h" hand down on top of the index finger side of your non-dominant "h" hand. Move both hands down.
Down
  1. 1. Dominant forefinger or index finger pointing to temple of head and moves outward with the "Y" handshape.
  2. 2. Form your non-dominant hand into a fist, and your dominant hand into the ASL letter C sign. Then bounce your 'C' hand off your steady fist a couple of times.
  3. 4. Gently wave an "E" handshape from side to side.
  4. 5. With your dominant hand, form a "C"-hand and do a small gentle circulars motion just at front of your face.
  5. 6. Take your thumb and index finger and make an open beak, while making the rest of your hand into a fist. Close the beak and bring it down to peck at the ground as represented by your other outstretched hand, palm facing up.
  6. 8. Taking your index finger and touching it just under the mouth area on one side of your chin. Twist the finger back-and-forth.
  7. 9. Use "U" handshapes and bend at the large knuckles twice toward back of your head.
  8. 11. Circling "X"-hands above your head as if twirling pom-poms similar to what would be done by a cheerleader.
  9. 12. Touch the tip of the middle finger of your dominant hand into the center of the palm of your non-dominant hand. Then touch the tip of the middle finger of your non-dominant hand into the palm of your dominant hand.
  10. 15. Make a "9"-hand with both hands, stretch out your arms loosely, palm facing down and move upward/downward briefly.