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Clapping Game Miss Mary Mack

Functions
Clapping Game, Hand and Finger Play, Language Play and Physical Play

Miss Mary Mack is a clapping game with a number of rhyming verses.

Details

At School 17

Players: 4
Girls
Age: 11

The first verse of Miss Mary Mack is as follows:

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack,
All dressed in black, black, black,
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back.

At School 09

Players: 2
Girls
Age: 6-7

Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac,
All dressed in black, black, black,
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother,
For fifty cents, cents, cents,
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants,
Climb the fence, fence, fence.
She climbed so high, high, high,
She touched the sky, sky, sky,
And never cam back, back, back,
Till the fourth of July, July, July.

At School 15

No text description. There is a video at Museum Victoria.

At School 19

Players: 2
Girls
Age: 8

Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac,
All dressed in black, black, black,
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother,
For fifty cents, cents, cents,
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants,
Climb the fence, fence, fence.
She climbed so high, high, high,
She touched the sky, sky, sky,
And never cam back, back, back,
Till the fourth of July, July, July.

At School 18

Players: 2
Girls
Age: 7-8

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