Remember classic hand clapping games? Great playground songs to build coordination, social skills, rhythm, sequencing, and more

Here’s one of many: clap own hands / cross arms and clap own shoulders / clap own hands / clap partner’s hands / cross arms and clap own thighs / clap own hands / clap partner’s hands. Find other clapping games on the internet, and use them to accompany verses and songs while applying them to math skills practice. Visit our website for lively math lessons, and subscribe to the FREE weekly newsletter: www.mathbyhand.com

Hand Clapping Games for Kids

Learning of hand-clapping games develop both gross motor and cognitive skills and they are fun. Here are six of my favorites.

Discover the top 10 hand-clapping games for kids that boost coordination, rhythm, and cognitive skills—perfect for preschool and kindergarten.

Looking for fun hand clapping games? Awesome hand clapping songs to teach kids, students or camp attendees, with videos and printable lyrics!

Improve your child’s developmental skills in a fun and interesting way? Check out this post that has some interactive hand-clapping games for kids.

Try these fun hand-clapping games and put your rhythm and coordination to the test!

Several months ago, I went to Disney World with my extended family for a week. If you’ve ever been to Disney, you know that approximately 75 percent o

Playing clapping games provides fun for children of every age. From the simple toddler game of “Patty Cake,” to the more challenging “Down, Down, Baby!” you and your friends will enjoy our collection of hand clapping games. We have included instructions when the games require more sophisticated hand clapping. If you are not familiar with […]

Remember those clapping games we used to play as kids? Between the silly (or nonsense) lyrics and the fast-paced sequence of claps, taps, snaps, and crosses, clapping games provided hours of entertainment. It might seem like just fun and games, but there's actually more to it than that. Clapping games can be beneficial to children's development. Dr. Idit Sulkin has conducted research on the topic of children's hand-clapping games, noting: "These activities serve as a developmental platform to enhance children’s needs — emotional, sociological, physiological, and cognitive. It’s a transition stage that leads them to the next phases of growing up.” ( source)  Clapping games are a great way to incorporate rhythm and movement into your choir rehearsals while reinforcing gross motor skills, rhythmic concepts (such as steady beat and subdivision), coordination skills, and the concept of sequencing (source). If you're working with a younger group, try modifying the clapping sequence to fit their ability level (scroll down to the bottom of this article for a few helpful tips).

Learn some fun hand-clapping games in Spanish! Classic juegos de manos like Marinero, Chocolate and more inside!

Spanish hand clapping games combine language, rhythm and movement. Kids learn vocabulary and grammar playing these 10 traditional games. Printable included.

There are a lot of great reasons to teach hand clap games to your children. Here are 20 of the reasons I teach them to my children.

These popular jump rope songs are fun, simple rhymes that help kids learn to keep rhythm and count. Skipping rope is a great way to get kids moving!

Four White Horses is a fantastic song and game for practicing beat and syncopation in the elementary music classroom.

Midline crossing is important for learning to write. Teach your kids this important skill with these simple crossing the midline activities.

Here is a collection of three Liberian clapping games performed by the children we support in our Refugee Orphan Home at Buduburam in Ghana, West Africa. Try...