Bop Bop Tomato

My heart goes bop bop together

I like the weather

Bring back my love to me

My heart goes criss cross

Tomato sauce

Ear to ear

Three musketeers

Eye to Eye

Three apple pies

Hip to Hip

Potato Chip

Bop Bop Tomato

Bop Bop Tomato
Bop Bop Tomato

FREEZE!

Danyelle, our Girl Griot in Brazil saw some other girl griots playing hand games!!! The Handgame Society is global! Look familiar? :)

Soooo much fun!!!!

Peace to the Clutch Magazine Girl Griots!

“I Don’t Wanna Go To Mexico No More More More”: Black Girls & Handgames by Jade Foster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Yw6xsffaU

This is a handgame based on slide. My cousin and I sat around one summer and were playing hand games and got bored with the traditional back hand touch part of slide and decided to add more hand gestures, probably hand movements from other hand games. Nevertheless we came up with this combination. This video was taken my junior year in college, during finals week. Procrastination at its best. It shows my friend and I playing the version of slide my cousin and I had made up years earlier. 

Mailman Mailman

Mailman Mailman do your duty, here comes a lady with a African booty, she can do the pom pom, she can do the twist. Most off all she can kiss kiss kiss. K-I-S-S (Repeat over & over while seeing who can stay low the longest.

Down Down Baby

Down down baby

Down by the roller coaster

Sweet sweet baby I’ll never let you go

Chimie chimie cocoa pop 

chimie chimie pow

chimie chimie pow

chimie chimie cocoa pop

chimie chimie pow

I’m glad i found this site! I’ve been trying to collect hand games for the past two weeks for little girls at the local Y.  Here’s one of my favs (it can also be used as a rope song):

Take a peach take a plum take a pocket full of gum

No no don’t take it

Take it up

Take it down

Take it all the way around

Popcorn maybe  chicken and gravy

Here comes the lady with the bald-headed baby

She can wiggle she can wobble

 She can do the splits

Betcha 5 dollars she can’t do this:

Said spin all the way arrrrouunnd

Jump all the way arroounnd

Do you remember your favorite hand game?

(Girl Griots, New Orleans)

“Four person games are always better!” - Z, 9 years old.

Down down baby, down by the roller coaster
Sweet sweet baby, I’ll never let you go
Shimmy shimmy coca pop shimmy shimmy pow
Shimmy shimmy coco puff shimmy shimmy pow!