Clapping game

Clapping game is a generic term for many types of children's games that are played by the clapping of the hands of their own or a partner.

Expiration

Often it rhymes are recited or sung songs play, so the clapping games are sometimes called " rhyming games ." Most clapping games are played by two of the partners with respect to standing and clapping in different variations in their hands. Depending on the skill and mutual understanding one claps on thighs, on the cheek, over the head or against each other left, right or together, mutually cross etc

A rhythmic Make up promised nursery rhyme, which was handed down in part or even imagined, reminiscent of nursery rhymes, the gossip serves speed. Some clapping games are running next to the clapping of hands, depending on the rhyme by performing movements of each verse. A well-known gossip game with a nonsense text, for example, " Em pom pie".

Dissemination

Such games seem to be spread worldwide. So writes G. Koch in 1963 in the companion material to his cinematic research document Micronesians ( Gilbert Islands, Nonouti ), Children's Games:

Example

In Müller - Jewellers 's has ge - burned, burned, burned, I'm back - ge - rannt, rannt, rannt, there came a Po - li - ZIST, ZIST, ZIST, who wrote me on the List, List, List, the list fell into the dirt, dirt, dirt, there was my Well - me away, away, away, I quickly ran home, house, home, and the Ge - film was out, out, out.