Jump Rope Rhymes There are probably as many of these rhymes as there are games! Before I list all the skipping rope rhymes, I've started a new category for hand clapping games, which has been a popular request from you the viewers. I've only got a few rhymes to start things off, so please send more hand-clapping games my way! A Sailor Went To Sea Say Say Oh Playmate Atchi Katchi Short Legged ...

Chants, Clapping Games, and Jump Rope Rhymes Chants Boys come from Jupiter... Einie, beanie... First grade babies... Five plum peas in a peapod pressed... I know an old lady... I asked my mother for fifty cents In a cabin by the woods... Left, left, I left my mother with forty-nine kids... Mary had a rowboat/Miss Suzie had a steamboat... Old Mother Hubbard... One bright day in the middle of the ...

BBB: Lucy, Suzy, and Mary Mack (16 January 2000) A while back, I mentioned a jump-rope or ball-bouncing chant in which you make up words starting with a given letter: A, my name is Alice and my husband's name is Al; we come from Alabama and we sell aardvarks. Ever since then I've been wanting to discuss jump-rope rhymes, counting-out rhymes, and clapping-pattern rhymes, but I didn't have ...

Picking Who is IT Most of these ryhmes are used to pick who would be it by making fists and turning them sideways. You would then say the rhyme and hit the other persons fist as well as yours using your chin as the substitute for the fist that you were using. Each fist would be hit once you would say the word and hit the fist at the same time. One word for each fist. At the end the person whose ...