Miss Mary Mack

Clapping Game

by Jennifer Cooper, posted on May 11th, 2011 in Games & Creative Play

According to Wikipedia, it’s been called the most common hand clapping game in the English speaking world. It teaches rhythm, rhyme and hand eye coordination.

May we present, Miss Mary Mack…

Repeat the above movements for each line below:

All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back

She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 15 cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence, fence

He jumped so high, high, high
He touched the sky, sky, sky
He didn’t come down, down, down
‘Til the 4th of July, y, y