- A Ram Sam Sam
- A Sailor Went to Sea
- All the Little Ducks Go Upside Down
- Alligator Chant
- Ally Bally
- Apple Tree chant
- Baby in the Cradle
- Backe backe Kuchen
- Bate Bate Chocolate
- Bim Bum
- Clap Clap Clap Your Hands
- Clap With Me
- Creeping Creeping Little Flea
- Dance Thumbkin Dance
- Dipidu
- Do As I’m Doing
- Down Down Baby
- Down in the Jungle
- Dr. Knickerbocker
- Em Pom Pee
- Father Abraham
- Follow the Leader
- Four White Horses
- Go Round the Mountain
- Going to Kentucky
- Grandma Moses
- Grandma’s Glasses
- Hambone
- Head Shoulders Baby
- Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
- Hello My Name is Joe (Jo)
- Here is the Beehive
- Hop Up and Jump Up
- How Do You Do
- I Hear Thunder
- I Took a Walk to Town One Day
- I’m Stretching Very Tall
- If a Fish
- If You’re Happy and You Know It
- In de Maneschijn
- In Some Lady’s Garden
- Jack-o’-lantern (chant)
- Jan Ken Pon Yo
- Kee Chee
- Keemo Kymo
- Kuma San
- La macchina del capo
- Let Everyone Clap Hands Like Me
- Little Cabin in the Wood
- Little Peter Rabbit
- Marching Song
- Marinero que se fue a la mar
- Mein Hut der Hat drei Ecken
- Mill-Wheel
- Miss Mary Mack
- Monkey
- Monkey See, Monkey Do
- Morsgrisar är vi allihopa
- Mulberry Bush
- My Aunt Came Back
- My Dame Hath a Lame Tame Crane
- My Dog Rags
- My Father is a Garbage Man
- My Hands
- Naass naass Blieder
- Nicky Nacky Nocky Noo
- Number One Touch Your Tongue
- Oliver Twist
- One Finger One Thumb
- Open Them Shut Them
- Punchinello
- Reach for the Sky
- Rise Sugar Rise
- Rock to Get Ready for School
- Round and Round the Garden
- Saco una manita
- San Sereni
- Sandie Toy
- Santy Maloney
- Se, Se, Se
- That’s a Mighty Pretty Motion
- There Was a Little Turtle
- This is the Way
- Thumbkin Says “I’ll Dance”
- Tony Chestnut
- Tue, Tue
- Two Fat Gentlemen
- Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer
- Waddaly Atcha
- Weevily Wheat
- Wheels on the Bus
- When Billy Was One
- Where is Thumbkin?
- Willowbee
- Zudio
4 thoughts on “Hand-Clapping/Motion Songs”
Thank You!!!
Hey, Beth! Thanks so very much! They are such fun and I appreciate your contributing them.. I am looking to publish a collection of chants/songs/rhymes to use with hand clapping, may I also use them there? I would, of course, acknowledge you are composer of these! 🙂
Absolutely! Enjoy!
I remember playing Miss Mary Mack all the time as a child, but the movements I learned were slightly different.
We did:
Cross arms over chest
Pat thighs
Clap your own hands together
Clap right hands together
Clap your own hands together
Clap left hands together
Clap your own hands together
Clap all hands together.
Very similar to yours, but the beginning is slightly different. Love it!