One, two, three, four, five! Folklore: Do kids still do clapping rhymes?

On every beat, a person claps their higher hand onto the touching person's palm. ]Fire 1 2 3 4 5!I thought it was Latin. Join Facebook to connect with Stella Ella Ola and others you may know. My name is Justin. Anyone remember this?

Get your answers by asking now. Thanks a lot for sharing that interesting recollection, Justin. From looking around the web, it appears that the game is most popular with Girl Scouts. "Stella Ella Ola" (Stella Stella Ola) is a clapping game where players stand or sit in a circle placing one hand over her or his neighbour's closer hand and sing the song. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10! View the profiles of people named Stella Ella Ola. Folklore: Tag banned in Colorado Springs School. When the countdown gets to "FIVE", if the girl who would get her left hand slapped by her neighbour at "FIVE" moves her hand out of the way in time, the girl doing the slapping is out. (If your hand gets clapped on the last “buff” you’re out, or if that person pulls their hand back and you clap your own hand, you’re out)”, “Quack diddley oh-so quack quack quack…from San Diego…ego, ego, ego…”. Album I Think We Should Hang Out All the Time.

folklore: Game of TAG - use/ploy of feinites ????? Other versions here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Ella_Ola, Edit: the pause between 9 and 10 allows the person who is about to be hit “out” to dodge the clap, You might be thinking of what I remember to be a game called “ahm Pompi” (not sure how to spell it) it is referenced on this forum a few comments down clap game. The local kids then taught the girls the actual words in Spanish. In Brazil, we have Adoleta (portuguese wikipedia). Trending Questions. Stella Ella Ola.

Whoever is out moves to stand in the middle of the circle.

Read the rules and suggestions of this subreddit for tips on how to get the most out of TOMT. This is the place to get help. Actually just very corrupted which is why it’s taken me years to Google it successfully. Lol we sang it like someone misheard the correct words. Yep, but the person whose palm got slapped on the last syllable was out - so either the person to their right or the slapper themself (if the person yanked their hand away fast enough). Summerette Lyrics [Nixon Boyd] If you see a pretty girl in the park at dawn And she’s taking her shoes off with her headphones on As you indicated, there's no way to really know whether the Spanish words those Central American children sang were the "original" words for that rhyme or were used for that rhyme due to folk processing. That's one way that recreational rhymes are spread throughout the world especially before the internet.One love! Stella Ella Ola Photography is a Photographic Artistry Studio that utilizes natural light to create timeless pieces of artwork that you can display in your home, on your walls and pass down from generation to generation. I was only looking it up as I'd had a conversation about the song, about how when I took a group of teens from Toronto to Nicagragua 2 years ago, to a rural coffee farm in Matagalpa, some of the girls in the team "taught" the game to the local kids, and discovered that they already knew the song. Oh we did one in Girl Scouts. Here's a discussion with a bunch of people all recalled their versions: http://awe.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77066&messages=80&page=2. Stella Stella Ola Clap clap clap singin S cheeka cheeka cheeka cheeka check singing S cheeka cheeka below below below below below below singing 1,2,3,4,5 “We spent hours playing this one at recess, though I’ve never heard it outside of my elementary school: Oom pa pe colony colonasta, Oom pa pe (rest) colony, Acadaymi safari, acadaymi buff buff!

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Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. We would sing the song "clack dooley oh so clack clack clack" (don't remember words...) and with every beat someone would slap their left hand over their right and that would move down the circle--the unlucky guy who got the last syllable at the end of the song sat out.

Version From Victoria, BC. By the way, I started that mudcat discussion thread on "Stella Ella Ola" which you mentioned on January 4, 2005 https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77066#1370839.

10!! The girls had assumed it was mostly just nonsense words. 5 answers. 0 0. In Search Of The Sources For "Stella Ella Ola"/"Quack Dilly Oso" Rhymes Edited by Azizi Powell (Update: October 10/23/2016 2:25 PM). I don’t remember where. !”, That’s the one I remember.

If you were planning on studying in the Palmerston Library on May 22nd, this is really gonna piss you off. Source(s): https://shrink.im/baw4n.

Btw, I mentioned in that post that I was working on a book of children's contemporary recreational rhymes. The more players you have, the more concentric circles you can get. I grew up in MN, and ours was pronounced, "Oboe Shin Aughten Taugten". Subject: RE: Kids chant Stella Ola Ola / Stella Ella Ola From: Azizi Date: 02 Oct 08 - 08:05 PM I just read GUEST,Gagi's Israeli version of Stella Ella Ola.

Lyr Req: Children's rhymes in dance songs, http://www.beachnet.com/~jeanettem/chants.html#STELLA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FA0a1YRSOE&mode=related&search=, http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:sg1eWniJTGYJ:www.cepal.ca/uploads/tx_pdforder/the-arch-spring-2003.pdf+stella+ella+ola&hl=e, http://www.cocojams.com/handclap_rhymes.htm, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loltwWPM0Uo&NR=1, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTBJsLjOpdw&feature=related. She or he may be long gone from reading this site. I shared an example of a group hand slap rhyme that I learned from some African American children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which they called "Strolla Ola Ola". Version from Philadelphia, PA. Quack didily oso, quack quack quack Say san-derico, rico, rico, rico, Delora, delora, delora, lora, lora, lora One, two, three, four! I remember our phonetic version of what the kids taught as something along the lines of (my memeory May be wrong because my 8 year old just came home singing it here in Ontario, 38 years later): Es chico chico wanna wanna go for Es chico chico chico chackSay Es chico chico Valo Valo Valo falo falova1 2 3 4 5This was not what the kids taught us; it was just our anglicized version of what they saidWe all played it for ages after and took it back to our various mostly west side and south side schools to play with our school friendsYears later I remember meeting kids at summer camp who weren’t there and being surprised that they knew the song and game too, My mother says the Bach Choir started later in the 80s.