Clapping game  

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A clapping game (or hand game) is a type of usually cooperative (i.e., non-competitive) game which is generally played by two players and involves clapping as a rhythmic accompaniment to a singing game or reciting of a rhyme, often nursery rhymes. Clapping games are found throughout the world and similar games may be known throughout large areas with regional variation.

Clapping games include:

• "A Sailor Went to Sea"<ref name="Gryski">Gryski, Camilla (1998). Let's Play: Traditional Games of Childhood, p.30-1. Kids Can. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• "Down Down Baby" (also known as "Roller Coaster")
• "Down by the Banks"<ref name="Bernstein">Bernstein (1994), p.7-8.</ref>
• "Mary Mack"<ref name="Bernstein"/>
• "Miss Susie"<ref name="Bernstein"/>
• "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man"
• "Pease Porridge Hot"<ref name="Gryski"/>
• "Pretty Little Dutch Girl"
• "Stella Ella Ola"
• "Cup game"
• "Crocidilly"
• "Four White Horses"
• "Bobo Ski Waten Taten"

See also

• Palmas (music)