Just found a post I wrote 2 years ago and never published! It a companion to this post about Calming songs and rhymes about hands!
I shared the Chocolate rhyme previously but I think it’s worth sharing again as it’s been so popular with Y2. And, as this post shows with ‘mariposa’, any other four syllable word works. It would work with cucuracha, elefante or even Barcelona! The clapping is the same as for Double double this this in English so pupils find it less tricky than you’d think!
Or you could try with your feet too 😉
Spanish playground also shares El marinero que se fue a la mar (a sailor went to sea) and Por aquí pasó un caballo (a counting song) – more complicated but still fun!
And Alejandra Lopez on Youtube and her little sister have plenty of other ideas of clapping rhymes, some with words like Milikituli (although the words are mostly nonsense!)
| Milikituli la katuli la potinguele |
| se fue a la ética, poética, simfónica |
| Milikituli la katuli la potinguele |
| Para bailar el rock and rol-rol-rol |
and others simply rhythms like Punchis clap and Palmas en la mesa (the instructions in Spanish obviously!)
