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Information: This category is for rhymes such as ball-bouncing rhymes, jump-rope rhymes, finger and toe rhymes, dandling rhymes (to bounce children on the knee), counting-out rhymes (to determine who will be "it" in games), and nursery rhymes.
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SwingSongs SwingSongs: A catalog of schoolyard songs, limericks and ditties. (Rhymes) http://gogomag.com/swingsongs/
"One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night" "One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night": Several versions of an American folk rhyme. (Rhymes) http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Onefineday.htm
Rhyme Time Rhyme Time: Traditional and kid's jump rope rhymes. (Rhymes) http://satsop.olympus.net/biz/skookum/jumpropes/rhymetime.htm
Picking Who Is "It" Picking Who Is "It": A collection of the folk rhymes that American children chant while choosing "it" in games; part of a larger site on children's games. (Rhymes) http://www.gameskidsplay.net/who_is_it/picking_it.htm
Playing the Dozens Playing the Dozens: Verbal tradition of taunting combining elements of aggression, strategy, and poetry. (Rhymes) http://www.online-magazine.com/snaps.htm
The Chinese Boy and Girl The Chinese Boy and Girl: Describing Chinese children's nursery rhymes, games, toys, and tales, by Isaac Taylor Headland (1901). (Rhymes) http://www.romanization.com/books/childrensgames/
BBB is for BBBear BBB is for BBBear: An overview of rhythmic and/or rhyming schoolyard folklore. (Rhymes) http://www.kith.org/logos/words/upper3/BBBear.html
Splatt: Rotten Rhymes Splatt: Rotten Rhymes: Schoolyard rhymes sent in by children to Splatt. (Rhymes) http://www.abc.net.au/splatt/rhymes/default.htm
Draznilkas Draznilkas: Article on Russian children's taunts. (Rhymes) http://www.virginia.edu/~slavic/seefa/DRAZNILK.HTM
Chants and Taunts, Clapping Games, Jump Rope Rhymes Chants and Taunts, Clapping Games, Jump Rope Rhymes: Collection of American children's folk rhymes for taunting, playing patty-cake, and skipping rope. (Rhymes) http://www.beachnet.com/~jeanettem/chants.html
Additional
Information: This category is for rhymes such as ball-bouncing rhymes, jump-rope rhymes, finger and toe rhymes, dandling rhymes (to bounce children on the knee), counting-out rhymes (to determine who will be "it" in games), and nursery rhymes.
Rhyme is a basic s
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