Partner/Group Hand-Clapping Games!

Singing/Chanting AND Clapping Games:

• Lum Sum Sum (Whole Group Ice Breaker)
• Ram Sam Sam (Similar to Lum Sum Sum but singing)
• Up the Ladder Down the Ladder (Whole Group Get to Know You)
• I Let Her Go Go (Rotating Partner)
• Sasha (Partner)
• One Legged Sailor (Partner)
• Four White Horses (Groups of 4)
• Jan Kan Pon Yo (Japanese Rock Paper Scissors Partner Game)
• Hot Cross Buns Hand Clapping Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN_53kogwfw&feature=share (Rotating Partner)
• Head and Shoulders Baby (Partner)
• It's Not Hard I Tell You So (Group)
• Dr. Knickerbocker (Group but could try partner hand-clapping!)

Clapping and Thinking Games:

• Ta Ti-Ti Circle Game (Ta moves to the right, Ti-Ti switches direction like an Uno Reverse Card. Have to keep a steady beat. Challenge Ti-ssippi skips a person.)
• Modified Ta Ti-Ti Circle Game (Pass the same rhythm in a circle while keeping the beat. For instance Ta Ta Ti-Ti Ta is passed on person at a time to complete the rhythm without losing beat.

Ones I Have not Tried Yet that should work:

• Patty Cake (Pre-K and K)
• Double Double This This
• Down Down Baby (Mama called the doctor version. Year 3-4)
• Miss Mary Mack (Year 2. Maybe some boys will be too cool for this in older grades)
• Say Say My Playmate (Tricky!! Maybe have one girly verse and one dragon verse (see this website: http://icebreakerideas.com/hand-clapping-games/ 
• A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea (Good for any age starting out hand-clapping)
• Lemonade Crunchy Ice (Year 1-3)