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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. by Traditional. Augustus Hoppin's illustration, published in New York, 1866. Genre (s) Nursery rhyme. Publication date. 1805. " One, Two, Buckle My Shoe " is a popular English language nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme of which there are early occurrences in the US and UK. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11284.
Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, [1][2] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. [3] It is a children's game that can be played with several players or alone. [4]
Skipping-rope rhyme. A skipping rhyme (occasionally skipping-rope rhyme or jump-rope rhyme), is a rhyme chanted by children while skipping. Such rhymes have been recorded in all cultures where skipping is played. Examples of English-language rhymes have been found going back to at least the 17th century. Like most folklore, skipping rhymes tend ...
Pass the marker to the following player and wait for your next turn.) Hop on one foot into the first empty square, and then every subsequent empty square. Be sure to skip the one your marker is on ...
Various moves (creation of positions or figures) are combined to create patterns which are often accompanied by chants. Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game.
863 19. LC Class. PQ7797.C7145 R313 1987. Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. Written in Paris, it was published in Spanish in 1963 and in English in 1966. For the first U.S. edition, translator Gregory Rabassa split the inaugural National Book Award in the translation category.
The first track on Seanan McGuire's album Wicked Girls, also titled "Counting Crows", features a modified version of the rhyme. [14] The artist S. J. Tucker's song, "Ravens in the Library," from her album Mischief, utilises the modern version of the rhyme as a chorus, and the rest of the verses relate to the rhyme in various ways. [15]
Hawthorn blossom or "knots of may". Nursery rhyme. Published. 1894–1898. Songwriter (s) Unknown. " Nuts in May " is a singing game played by children with the aim of pairing a boy and girl from within two teams of participants. It was first recorded in the second half of the 19th century and has Roud Folk Song Index 6308.