Develop clapping games with the children in kindergarten

Clapping games belong in kindergarten to the most important methods to impart good body awareness to the little ones and are therefore an important part of early musical education. You can also develop and implement clapping games together with younger children from around two years of age. Here are some suggestions.

You should keep this in mind when playing clapping games in kindergarten

• Implementing gossip games in kindergarten is not difficult. However, you should first get an overview of the different gossip games that you can use educationally.
• A child can already clap his hands consciously by clapping his hands at one year old. However, only from the age of around three can children clap a rhythm and are able, for example, to accompany a song with a clapping rhythm. So the choice of a gossip game should be based on how old the children in your group of children are.
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• Familiarize the children in your children's group with clapping games by incorporating clapping movements into familiar songs and finger games.
• Let older children clap along a rhythm that you set either by clapping or with the help of a rhythm instrument such as the chime bars.


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Develop gossip games with older kindergarten children

Older kindergarten and elementary school children can let you develop gossip games on their own by giving them the task of writing down a gossip rhythm.

• Invite the children to think of signs to clap and signs to pause afterwards. For example, a circle could stand for clapping and a triangle for a break. In the case of the character sequence circle, triangle, triangle, circle, there would be a two-second pause after the first clap, before clapping again. Explain to the children that pause must be as long as it takes to count to 3 in their heads.
• Have the children try to clap their own gossip games using the characters.

Inventing gossip games with younger children

Younger ones children can ask you to consider how and where to make clapping movements.

• One after the other, the little ones should specify how and what to clap on, for example with both hands on their thighs, with one hand on their own bottom, etc.
• Invite the other children to emulate this newly invented clapping.

And now: Have fun trying out the clapping games in kindergarten.