2024-06-27

asakiyume: (shaft of light)
2024-06-27 05:36 pm

Cho-co-la-te

I love hand-clapping games; they're such a wonderful example of truly folk transmission through the generations.

While I was visiting my friends in Leticia, two of the kids were doing one. The rhyme went

Choco, choco
la, la,
choco, choco
te, te,
choco-la
choco-te
chocolate!


You clapped sometimes with the palms of your hands and sometimes with the backs of your hands--it was great!



When I got back to MedellĂ­n, at one point Wakanomori and I passed a line of people waiting for pancakes at a pop-up pancake event. In the line was a girl who was teaching this rhyme to her dad.

Do you have any hand-clapping games you remember doing, or seeing others do, when you were younger?