I feel remarkably insecure lately.

[conuly]

I don't know why, either. I can only hope it's PMS and goes away quickly, because it's really unpleasant.

Also? Still looking up handclap games. Ana's interest is wane-y, but Evangeline has grown more interested, which presents a few problems as she's only three. Still, with practice I don't see any reason she can't be very good at them. Practice got her going to a list of six or seven when we play "I'm Going on a Trip", and I wouldn't've thought a three year old could do that.

What there really needs to be is some consolidated website with videos, as I've said. There are plenty with rhymes (and the way they're written always hurts my eyes, as to the various assertations that THIS is the correct way and the other are wrong, ye gods), but very few with the clapping itself, and that just has to change.

Now. What's the best way to do that? This is a solvable problem - heck, there are scads of videos on youtube, if only they were easy to find! - so how does it get solved?

Comments

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I'm probably gonna get virtually tarred and feathered for this one, and it's not technically an interactive clapping game...

How about the Chicken Dance? It's fun, it's silly, it has various parts to do various physical motions, and it's musical.

[azurelunatic]

Website including the rhymes and a written description of the clapping, and then an embedded or linked YouTube video of the clapping itself? Searching down videos would probably be the hard part, though.

[conuly]

Searching down videos is already the hard part! Gah!

[leora.livejournal.com]

Take videos of you and a kid doing the ones you know. Put them up on YouTube. Set up a website with a brief description of handclap games. Then put names of different handclap games with each name being a link for that game. On that page put all the words written out and a link to your youtube video of how to do it.

On the main page ask people to submit their handclap games with an email/form reply with the words written out and a link to a video of them doing it. Then as you get submissions, add them to the page.

It'll be slow growing at first, but if you're lucky some people will see it and go, hey yeah, I know some of those and so do my friends, let's give this person handclap games. Try to get your friends to point to your page and to ask their friends to submit any they can. I bet you could get people to do it.

(I don't actually know any though... I sort of know pattycake, but I'm not sure what all of the motions are supposed to be, but if you set that up, I'd post asking my friends to submit stuff if they can.)

[conuly]

I have nothing to take videos with, and (the worst part)... though I'm ashamed to admit it, I know nothing about setting up my own website!

The rest of it is easy, it's just that one big step!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I can build webpages quite easily (I'm actually the website designer for a friends wrestling company, but I'm not giving links til its all done and I can convince him to STOP FUCKING UP MY CODING!).

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I'm probably gonna get virtually tarred and feathered for this one, and it's not technically an interactive clapping game...

How about the Chicken Dance? It's fun, it's silly, it has various parts to do various physical motions, and it's musical.

[azurelunatic]

Website including the rhymes and a written description of the clapping, and then an embedded or linked YouTube video of the clapping itself? Searching down videos would probably be the hard part, though.

[conuly]

Searching down videos is already the hard part! Gah!

[leora.livejournal.com]

Take videos of you and a kid doing the ones you know. Put them up on YouTube. Set up a website with a brief description of handclap games. Then put names of different handclap games with each name being a link for that game. On that page put all the words written out and a link to your youtube video of how to do it.

On the main page ask people to submit their handclap games with an email/form reply with the words written out and a link to a video of them doing it. Then as you get submissions, add them to the page.

It'll be slow growing at first, but if you're lucky some people will see it and go, hey yeah, I know some of those and so do my friends, let's give this person handclap games. Try to get your friends to point to your page and to ask their friends to submit any they can. I bet you could get people to do it.

(I don't actually know any though... I sort of know pattycake, but I'm not sure what all of the motions are supposed to be, but if you set that up, I'd post asking my friends to submit stuff if they can.)

[conuly]

I have nothing to take videos with, and (the worst part)... though I'm ashamed to admit it, I know nothing about setting up my own website!

The rest of it is easy, it's just that one big step!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I can build webpages quite easily (I'm actually the website designer for a friends wrestling company, but I'm not giving links til its all done and I can convince him to STOP FUCKING UP MY CODING!).