Children's games

Hi everyone,

What children's games do you know? There are lots.

I cannot have a better picture.

Here are the games:

Clapping games "Mary Mack" ·  "Miss Susie" ·  "Pease Porridge Hot"
Guessing games Hangman ·  I spy
Hand games Bloody knuckles ·  Hand-slap game ·  Mercy ·  Rock-paper-scissors ·  String figures ·  Thumb war
Hide-and-seek and tag Capture the flag ·  Four corners ·  Kick the can ·  Marco Polo
Baby games Peekaboo
Party games Hot potato ·  Musical chairs ·  Pin the tail on the donkey ·  Simon Says
Playground games and songs Chinese jump rope ·  Dodgeball ·  Follow the leader ·  Four square ·  Hopscotch ·  Mother May I? ·  Red Rover ·  "Sea Lion Woman" ·  Skipping rope  (Double Dutch)    ·  "The Song That Never Ends" ·  Statues
Singing games "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" ·  Counting-out games  (Duck, duck, goose ·  "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" ·  "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe")    ·  "Did You Ever See a Lassie?" ·  "The Farmer in the Dell" ·  Fingerplays  ("Itsy Bitsy Spider" ·  "Little Robin Redbreast" ·  "This Little Piggy")    ·  "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" ·  "London Bridge Is Falling Down" ·  "The Muffin Man" ·  "Pop Goes the Weasel" ·  "Ring a Ring o' Roses" ·  Skipping-rope rhymes  ("Eeper Weeper")    ·  "Skip to My Lou"
Other Leapfrog ·  Playground ·  Seven Up ·  Street games ·  Telephone/Chinese whispers ·  Video game

Ahah, do you guess about "Simon Says"?

I don't know all of these games. I pick this up from the Internet but I don't want to give you the link as I would like you to try to guess.

I've got far more...

Yes, that's it "Simon says" is well "Jacques a dit".

Can you play Hopscotch?

A few others from my dictionary:
marbles
cops and robbers

Muriel,

Try to ask them or find more about "Playground games and songs" and "Singing games" the names are funny and the lyrics are very nice (looking like nursery rhymes or counting rhymes); English speaking people have good things.

> we have also these games in France.
Yes, I got them from the dictionary (easy when they are not compound words.

gerardM a écrit:Muriel,

Try to ask them or find more about "Playground games and songs" and "Singing games" the names are funny and the lyrics are very nice (looking like nursery rhymes or counting rhymes); English speaking people have good things.

I may not know all of the French rhymes but I have the impression the English heritage is richer than the French one.
I'm impressed when I hear Krystyna... e.g. stories around each finger.

Too bad my granddaughter lives far from you otherwise I would drive her to your home for such a class.

Will you be opening a class by Bourg-la-Reine soon?

Hi Muriel,

Krystyna is about to "babysit" a girl of 4 and a baby to be born this month. She spent a few hours with the 4 year girl lately and she is enthusiastic as the young girl is very keen on learning English; as far as I understood, she is very clever and already speaks French, understands Portuguese and maybe a bit of Arabic.

As I wrote it above, and as you know, EMTs love words: they have lots of cute songs, and stories for children, I think more than the French. I can write this after what Krystyna says and also after my niece (a New Zealander) who often refers to childish songs or sayings, even with her adult friends.

> Gerard you mean the English heritage is richer than the French one (EMTs)
Yes, so I think.
If I refer to my early years as a pupil or in my family, if I refer to my own children; my ex-wife knew many nursery rhymes.
I know French school masters use more rhymes than when I was a kid but it's far less than in English speaking societies (US, UK, NZ, Oz, etc.)

Again, Krystyna tells lots of stories around the 10 fingers of the hands playing and talking to one another. I think there's one (maybe a few) in French but I don't remember (less known than in English).
EMT pupils also have more sayings. Lots of animals have cute small names like Donald Duck, like Teddy Bear... same for a frog, for a cat, etc. (that usually rhyme). Krystyna often asks me about such couples in French but I am unable to say (I think there are recent such couples in French thanks to Dorothée, Chantal Goya and the collection of new stories for children)
Similarly, especially in Australia, there are lots of expressions that are associated with funny endings such as "easy peasy", "Oky Docky" (Okey Dockey)... no special meanings, just funny winks.
These childish songs/rhymes, these expressions for adults are very used in the English culture.

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Something that came to my mind regarding funniy expressions that don't mean much but add kinda wink to the speech:
- See you later, alligator, after awhile, crocodile
- Bye-bye, butterfly
- Give a hug, ladybug
- Toodle-ee-oo, kangaroo
- See you soon, raccoon
- etc.

LOL Yes usually English speaking people make things short but...

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- Time to go, buffalo
- Can’t stay, blue jay
- Mañana, iguana
- The end, my friend!
( http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080430150309AAKaSj1 )

No Muriel, I don't know them.... I guess there're far more nursery rhymes than in French and people remember all life long.

In addition to providing happy memories, it helps teaching babies.
At school, English speaking countries use repetitions on singing "rules"... similar in lots of other countries where students repeat loudly.
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