Category Archives: Clap and Rhyme

I always liked “Miss lucy…

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Original author: Cindy Green
 

I always liked “Miss lucy had a steamboat” My favorite was the second verse. “Hello operator, please give me number nine, and if you disconnect me, I’ll chop off your behind” I thought it was funny. Just think about it. The operators punishment would be that she wouldn’t be able to poop anymore. That’s what came to my mind when I used to sing this song. Quite a punishment just for disconnecting the phone!

Here is a jumping rhyme,…

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Original author: Kim
 

Here is a jumping rhyme, S-C-H-DOUBLE O-L spells school for me. Each letter was said on a jump, double o being one jump,. I used to love this one. Though it messed me up spelling the word school for awhile. I used to think it said W-0. Oh well. Thanks so much for the sight. I was looking for chinese jump rope rules. Thanks everyone.

Does anyone remember a “patty…

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Original author: Cindy
 

Does anyone remember a “patty cake” song where a verse was: (I dont’t know how to spell it so I’ll write it out phonetically) Bobo ski wahtin tahtin, eh eh, eh eh, boom, boom boom ….Litlle bitty wahtin tahtin, bobo ski wahtin tahtin, bo bo ski wahtin tahtin, eheh, eheh, BOOM.????

Here’s another jump rope…

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Original author: Ann
 

Here’s another jump rope rhyme we used to sing in Queens: Fire, fire false alarm (Ann) fell into (“Kevin’s) arms How many kisses did she receive, Close your eyes and you will see, Passing three! One, two, three…. (keep counting and jumping with closed eyes until you miss.) Does anyone remember a jump rope rhyme involving telling time? One person is jumping and reciting the rhyme, and a second person jumps in becoming the “hands” of the clock circling the original person for each hour position as they say, “one o’clock, two o’clock…”?

Hi, I came looking for directions…

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Original author: jackie
 

Hi, I came looking for directions to play french elastic, (i’m from the UK) to help my daughters, and this site has been a great help,especially Catriona (uk)who described the way my daughters are jumping rope now and with that rhyme, Eirene (Australia) who did it my way(!) and Anonymous (25/5) for the MISSISSIPPI rhyme that rings some very faint bells!! But i’ll let my daughters know that one. In reply to Elaine (26/5) I remember skipping with the elastic around only one leg at different heights and then around both legs wide apart, could this be the smallies and widies you refer to? Thanks also to others who mentioned other sites that might be of help.

these are the games i know…

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Original author: Joey [e-mail]
 

these are the games i know where you stand in a circle and your right hand is on top of the person on your right and your left hand is under the person on the left and you go around in a circle slapping hands: (this is my favorite) down by the banks of the hanky panky where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank singin east side west side kerrrrrplop!! (the reason i think that it was originally east side west side is cause thats where the bullfrogs jumped, doesnt that sound right?) i also know: slap-diddly o so slap slap slap talariko riko riko riko flo flo flo flo falo faaaalo 1,2,3,4!! and: my little crakerjack crakerjack he said she said jimmy jimmy jack jack flo flo flo flo falo faaalo 1,2,3,4!

We used to play “chinese…

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Original author: Carol R.
 

We used to play “chinese jump rope” too in the 60s at our elementary school in northern British Columbia, Canada. I can’t for the life of me remember what we called this game but it certainly wasn’t “chinese jump rope”. The rhyme we used with it was a version of “Flying Purple People Eater”, not the whole song. It started like this: One-eyed one-horned Flying purple people eater Bees wear Don’t stare Flying purple people eater The game was played in the manner that Eirene from Australia described. If anyone knows the rest of the verse I’d love to hear it.

How about . . . I went…

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Original author: Miss Suzie
 

How about . . . I went to a chinese Restaurant to buy a loaf of bread, bread bread. He put it in a plastic bag and this is what he said to me My name is kaylo pickalo pickalo kaylo walla walla whiskey hello mary chinese chopsticks chow or something like that!

Hmm, I forgot to type the…

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Original author: Ditto
 

Hmm, I forgot to type the rest of the way the the way Categories is played, sorry. When we picked the ball up, we said, “Girls are such as…” and you pick a girls name and bounce the ball once and step into each of the other boxes in sequence until you get to the last box and then step out. Back then it was always, “Boys are such as: Paul, John, George, Ringo…” right?!

How about “Categories?”…

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Original author: Suzy again
 

How about “Categories?” Anyone remember that one? You drew a court on the ground similar to hopscotch (“potsy”) with two rows of rectangular boxes, 5 in one row, 5 in the other, and inside the boxes were different categories like girls, boys, cars, teachers, flowers, actors, actresses, and oh I forget the others. You roll the ball up from the bottom left box and step into the first box (girls) and pick up the ball from within the box. That was a real feat when you got to the second row, because if you were up to the last few boxes, you had to roll the ball slowly enough to catch up to it by stepping quickly through all the other boxes and picking the ball up in the box you were up to. If someone can remember any of the other three categories, I can send a drawing of the court to the webmaster and perhaps he can post it somewhere.