School Hand Games
School hand games were all the rage when you were in elementary school, and children across the world in all different cultures are still bonding and having fun with them. Whether you are a parent and want to teach your children the classic hand games, a teacher who notices your students playing these games at recess and wants to be able to play with them or just someone who is around children who wants to master the popular songs, these exercises are simple to learn and will also make you favored among children.
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Miss Mary Mack
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Though no one has ever met Miss Mary Mack, children and adults all over the world love to sing about her! This hand game is well-liked and fun to sing, making it a very popular choice with kids.
The song goes:
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For fifty cents, cents, cents
To see the elephant, elephant, elephant
Jump over the fence, fence, fence.
He jumped so high, high, high
He reached the sky, sky, sky
And he never came back, back, back
'Till the end of July, 'ly, 'ly.
Actions:
On "Miss Mary Mack," clap your hands together, extend your right hand to clap with your partner's right hand, clap your hands together again, extend your left hand to clap with your partner's left hand and clap your hands together again. On "Mack, Mack," clap both of your hands with your partner's hands, clap your own hands together again and clap both of your hands with your partner's hands. Start over doing the same thing you did for "Miss Mary Mack."
Double This, Double That
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Double This, Double That is an addicting and simple hand game that is likely one of the easiest to learn.
The song goes:
Double, double this this
Double, double that that
Double this
Double that
Double, double this that
Actions:
On "Double," touch fists with your partner. For each "this," clap hands with your partner. On the second "double," touch fists with your partner again, and, for each "that," clap the back of your hands together. The method is the same all throughout the chant, and, at the end, clapping hands with your partner is done twice in a row, on the front and on the back.
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A Sailor Went to Sea
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A Sailor Went to Sea is another popular song many children have memorized. Furthermore, the accompanying hand game is fun and easy to pick up with a little practice.
The song goes:
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
To see what he could see, see, see
But all that he could see, see, see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.
Actions:
On "a," clap your own hands together. On "sai," cross your arms over your chest. On "lor," clap your hands together. On "went," clap your hands on your thighs. On "to," clap your hands together. On "sea, sea, sea" clap hands with your partner. Keep going faster and faster for each time you make it through the song.
Tarzan Jungle Man
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Tarzan Jungle Man is an entertaining hand game because it involves a winner and a loser, which makes for a fun competition.
The song goes:
Tarzan, jungle man, swinging from a rubber band
Fell down, broke his crown
What color was his blood?
Actions:
On "Tar," clap your hands, and on "zan", clap your knees. One partner will start doing the opposite, clapping their knees on "Tar" and hands on "zan." Do this all the way until you reach the word "blood." Whichever partner has his hands on his knees on "blood" shouts out a color, and the word is spelled letter by letter, each letter being a beat. At the end of the game, the person whose hands are on his knees wins.
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