Thanksgiving ASL

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Across
  1. 2. A general handshape of F circle movement that applies to similar signs such as: class, group, and team.
  2. 3. Touch an "F" hand to your cheek, then move up, touch your "F" hand on head higher up.
  3. 5. Form your dominant hand into a claw and shake just above the knuckle of your non-dominant palm side.
  4. 7. Hold an "S" hand in front of your mouth and move it downward twice as if you were licking.
  5. 8. Make your hand into a fist with your index finger and thumb extended, twist your hand back and forth. Then create your index fingers and thumb about half inch apart like a Q handshape, put it on your on non-dominant hand in fist with index sticking out, start at end of knuckle and pull the Q handshape away on index finger.
  6. 10. Dominant upright "B-thumb" handshape, palm in, in contact with the chin with the tips of the fingers, brush down once, becoming bent "B-thumb" or "15" handshape.
  7. 12. Fist hand with index finger sticking out, slide index finger right to left just slightly while making biting motions that move left to right.
  8. 14. Hold one hand out from your body and in a fist shape, as other palm of your non-dominant hand opens upward flat. Band fist down onto palm then, twist your palm hand opposite side and create a fist. On other hand from a fist, make a folk shape and stab on top of non-dominant fist hand as to stick folk in.
  9. 17. Forming your right hand into the letter "W." Touch the index finger to your mouth twice.
  10. 19. Form the ASL letter Y sign with your dominant hand, then tip it on the thumb side and swirl around.
Down
  1. 1. To do a "double handed" "double-arching" version of the sign "THANK-YOU."
  2. 4. Twist an A handshape by cheek then imagery slice on the palm of your non-dominant hand. The cuts should form a wedge.
  3. 6. Hold both your hands and forearms horizontally in front of your body, the dominant forearm above the non-dominant, and tap them together.
  4. 9. Make a slicing motion with four fingers on the back of the other hand, moving along the hand.
  5. 10. The left (or non-dominant) hand stays stationary. The right index and middle fingers alternate moving up and down.
  6. 11. Hold up both palms in front of you with the ASL number 5 hands; one hand with palm upward are sweep away from palm-downside stay-put hand.
  7. 13. Make a fist with your dominant hand and leave your thumb sticking up. Now flick your thumb with a forward motion from the front of your teeth.
  8. 15. Your dominant hand utilizing "X" handshape. The "X" finger touches the top of the cheek bone (next to your eye) on the side where the dominant hand rests and the wrists twists back and forth.
  9. 16. Take your open hand (or both hands) and brush up your chest a couple of times.
  10. 18. A common method is to move a Q-hand from the chin to the chest.