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Hand Games
Hand games are games played using only the hands of the players. Hand games exist in a variety of cultures internationally, and are of interest to academic studies in ethnomusicology and music education. Hand games are used to teach music literacy skills and socio-emotional learning in elementary music classrooms internationally. Examples of hand games * Chopsticks (sticks) * Clapping games * Mercy * Morra (finger counting) * Odds and evens * Pat-a-cake and variations: ** Mary Mack * Red hands (or hand-slap game) * Rock paper scissors * Thumb war (or thumb wrestling) * " Where are your keys?" (language acquisition game) Less strictly, the following may be considered hand games: * Bloody knuckles * Fingers (drinking game) * Jacks * Knife game * Spellbinder * Stick gambling * String games, such as cat's cradle ''Cat's Cradle'' is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Mack
"Mary Mack", also known as "Miss Mary Mack", is a clapping game of unknown origin. It is well known in various parts of the United States, Australia, Canada, and in New Zealand and has been called "the most common hand-clapping game in the English-speaking world". Description In the game, two children stand or sit opposite to each other, and clap hands according to the rhyming song. In some places, the repeated notes are given a quarter note triplet rhythmic value or sounded early to syncopate the rhythm. The same song is also used as a skipping-rope rhyme, although rarely so, according to one source. History An early version of a verse of "Mary Mack" collected in West Chester, Pennsylvania appears in the book The ''Counting Out Rhymes of Children'' by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888). Other early sources (1902, 1905) show variations of "She asked her mother for fifty cents to see the elephant jump the fence" with no mention of Mary Mack. The origin of the name Mary Mack is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
String Game
A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet. They may consist of singular images or be created and altered as a game, known as a string game, or as part of a story involving various figures made in sequence (string story). String figures have also been used for divination, such as to predict the sex of an unborn child. A popular string game is cat's cradle, but many string figures are known in many places under different names, and string figures are well distributed throughout the world.Elffers, Joost and Schuyt, Michael (1978/1979). ''Cat's Cradles and Other String Figures'', p.197. . History According to Camilla Gryski, a Canadian librarian and author of numerous string figure books, "We don't know when people first started playing with string, or which primitive people invented this ancient art. We do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |