Children's games

Hi everyone,

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

Thank you Gérard for those children's games. Unfortunately this time we can't enlarge it. It is a shame because it is very interesting !

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...

Hi Gérard
The picture is perfect now thanks a lot. Simon says is like "Jacques a dit " in French isn't it ?

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

Can you play Hopscotch?

I have my 3 little ones this week and I will try some on them. I will let you know.

A few others from my dictionary:
marbles
cops and robbers

gerardM a écrit:

Can you play Hopscotch?

It is "La marelle" isn't it ? It was very popular in Victorian times but I am not as old as that.

gerardM a écrit:
marbles
cops and robbers

we have also these games in France.

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.

On you tube there are  oodles of things.  I am sure Krystyna is very impressive when she sings !

Hello Gérard, everyone
I am prepearing "Simon says" because I think it is a good way to enlarge children's vocabulary
I have found a few orders
Touch (nose, toes, cheeks, feet, knees, ears, nose, toes)
turn round
kneel down
sit down
wave, hello, good bye
clap your hands 
Make a tunnel with your legs, a line by the door
Turn round
Kneel down
rub your hands (eyes)
drum your fingers
snap your fingers
twiddle your thumbs(tourne)
point on the(right, left)
thumb your nose at (pied de nez)
Have you got any other ideas ,

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

it will be for another time for sure !

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

Good idea, let's think about it  

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)
congratulations to Krystyna for her new little ones.!

> 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 )

Hi Gérard, do you know that one ? As i telephone Martha aged 9 month old every morning,  i need to know a lot of those.

Round and Round the Garden
Do the actions as you say the rhyme.
Round and round the garden, like a Teddy Bear.
Trace finger in a circle around child's palm
One step, two step
Walk your fingers up child's arm
Tickle you under there!
Tickle under chin, under arm or tummy

what about that one ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Little_Piggy

Finger play[edit]

"... This little piggy had roast beef..."
The rhyme is usually counted out on an infant or toddler's toes, each line corresponding to a different toe, usually starting with the big toe and ending with the little toe. A foot tickle is usually added during the "Wee...all the way home" section of the last line.^{[citation needed]} The rhyme can also be seen as a counting rhyme, although the number of each toe (from 1 for the big toe to 5 for the little toe) is never stated.^{[citation needed]}

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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