Magic Hands
Magic Hands is a program for youth on CBeeBies. Poetry translated into British Sign Language for children. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 45 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
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Magic Hands
Children's sign language poetry series. Simon and Donna take a trip back in time with The Little Big Man and Clouds and Waves, both by Rabindranath Tagore.
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Children's sign language poetry series. Aimee and Ashley are off to a land of knights and castles with The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Children's sign language poetry series. Donna and Simon discover Rathers and The Sandhill Crane, both by Mary Hunter Austin.
Children's sign language poetry series. Donna and Simon bring us the classic nonsense rhyme from Edward Lear, The Jumblies.
Children's sign language poetry series. Ashley and Donna discover Waltzing Matilda and Old Man Platypus, both by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson.
Children's sign language poetry series. Aimee and Ashley discover To Autumn and A Song About Myself, both by John Keats.
Children's sign language poetry series. Aimee and Ashley set sail to ancient Greece and discover The Odyssey by Homer.
Children's sign language poetry series. Donna and Ashley discover Daffodils by William Wordsworth, and A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Children's sign language poetry series. Aimee and Ashley discover The Spider and the Fly by Mary Botham Howitt.
Children's sign language poetry series. Aimee and Ashley discover You Are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll, and Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field.
Children's sign language poetry series. Simon and Donna discover Beowulf when Bobbles dresses up.
Children's sign language poetry series. Aimee and Ashley discover The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning.
Children's sign language poetry series. Ashley and Aimee discover The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear, and My Fancy by Lewis Carroll.
Series 3
Leapy goes back to school to learn the basics of education as Mae and Mia perform the Jackson 5’s ‘ABC’ in British Sign Language, accompanied by animations.
Pink Bird and friends don their dancing shoes, top hats and canes to take the stage for a Magic Hands’ rendition of ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’.
Click Clack becomes a trainee kite pilot and learns how to navigate a kite as Aimee and Mia perform Mary Poppins’ ‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’ in British Sign Language.
Pink Bird runs wild in a department store, buying lots of beautiful things such as roses and copper kettles, in tribute to the Sound of Music’s ‘My Favourite Things’.
Pink Bird catches the tube to Tipperary as Mae and Nadeem perform a medley of war songs, in British Sign Language.
Pink Bird dons a pair of dancing shoes in the Magic Hands rendition of ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverly’ from My Fair Lady, performed by Mae and Aimee in British Sign Language.