A few days in, while standing a particularly long line, my 9-year-old niece turned to me and said, “Wanna play a game?” She then proceeded to teach me how to play a hand-clapping game called ...

Going outside and jumping rope or playing kick the can with other kids in the neighborhood ... cursive handwriting and clapping erasers after school. How many of these games did you play?

That makes it all the more important for parents to understand and recognize the difference between safe games for kids and unsafe games. Corinne McDermott, founder of Have Baby Will Travel ...

The kids did writing exercises and crafted poems ... took all of that material and made it into music. “Their hand clapping games became the rhythm and rhythmic motives that start pieces ...

JB: Hand clapping games really took off in Britain after the Second World War and the Opies called them the chief growth area in children's play as they became more popular than singing games ...