Hand game
Hand games are games played using only the hands of the players. Hand games exist in a variety of cultures internationally, and are of interest to academic studies in ethnomusicology and music education. Hand games are used to teach music literacy skills and socio-emotional learning in elementary music classrooms internationally.
Examples of hand games
- Arm wrestling
- Bloody knuckles
- Chopsticks
- The circle game
- Clapping games
- Fingerhakeln
- Hand cricket
- Mercy
- Morra
- Odds and evens
- Red hands
- Rock paper scissors
- Sansukumi-ken
- Thumb war
- "Where are your keys?"