Skip Counting Game
Learning to count by twos, fives, tens, fifties, and hundreds will make basic arithmetic easier for your child. Before you begin playing, learn the skip-counting jingle and its rhythmic accompaniment:
Directions
| (slap knees) | (clap hands) | (snap left hand) | (snap right hand) |
| Counting, | counting, | 1, 2, | 3. |
| That's too | easy, | can't you | see? |
| Count in- | stead by | twos or | threes, or |
| By the | number | named by | me. |
- The players sit in a circle on the floor.
- To begin, they recite the jingle together while slapping, clapping, and snapping as shown above.
- All the players continue to slap, clap, and snap as the first player declares a number to count by (for example, ten).
- The player to his left then must say the next number in the series (in this case, twenty).
- Play continues around the circle.
- Each player must say the next number in the series during one slap-clap-snap-snap pattern.
- If a player is stumped or says the wrong number, he must drop out.
- To resume the game, the remaining players recite the jingle again and declare a new number.
- The last player remaining after all the others have dropped out is the winner.