clapping games
Rhythmic palm-hitting activities
Clapping games are children's play activities combining rhythmic hand-clapping patterns with chanted rhymes or songs.
Two or more players face each other, clapping their own hands and each other's in synchronized sequences that grow increasingly complex.
Pat-a-cake and Miss Mary Mack are classic examples.
The games pass through schoolyard oral tradition, with regional variations.
- pat-a-cakeChildren's clapping rhyme
- circle gamesActivities in seated rings
- handclapPalms struck together
- hand slapOpen-palmed blow
- hand jiveRhythmic gestural dance routine
double dutch · playground · action songs · rhyming games · rhythm · folk games · singing games · hand games · oral tradition · coordination · choreography · fingerplays · storytelling songs · movement songs · children's folklore · synchronize · cooperative play · rhymes
- baby playpeek-a-boo, peekaboo, pat-a-cake, patty-cake, rattles
- children's versenursery rhymes, children's verse, rhyming verse, bedtime rhymes, silly rhymes
- folklore of childhoodnursery rhymes, fairy tales, lullabies, bedtime stories, folktales
- hand gamesrock paper scissors, cat's cradle, thumb war, thumb wrestling, patty cake
- kids musicsinging, songs, lullabies, nursery rhymes, alphabet songs
- nursery rhymeslullabies, Little Jack Horner, cradle songs, Old Mother Hubbard, nursery rhymes
clapping gamesword puzzles
Language-based mental challenges
brain teasers · mind games · board games · card games · video games
clapping gamesserious games
Games for learning, not entertainment
competitive sports · homework · chores · training drills · team sports
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