FunctionsClapping Game, Hand and Finger Play, Language Play and Physical Play
Down by the Banks is a clapping game played by (normally ) girls.
Details
At School 16
Players: 3
Girls
Age: 7-8
Props: None
At School 13
Players: 8+
Girls
Age: 11
Down by the Banks
Down by the banks of the hanky pank
Where the bull frogs jump from plank to plank
With a
hip, hop belly flop
Watch yourself or you'll be OUT!
At School 12
Players: 5
Girls
Age: 11 -12
Props: None
The players sit cross-legged in a circle, with their hands resting on their knees, palms up, and with their right hands resting on top of the person on their right's left hand. Someone starts the rhyme by saying 'Down', and bringing their right hand across to hit the player on their left's hand. That player does the same action with her right hand to the
next player, and it goes around the circle in time with the beat of the rhyme. When the rhyme ends, if the last person's hand is hit on the word 'out', they are out. If they manage to avoid being hit, the person who tried to hit them is out instead.
The rhyme is:
Down by the banks of the hanky-panky
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky,
With a hip, hop, crackle and a pop,
Hip, hop, crackle and a pop,
O-U-T spells out!
Played at
April 1, 2020 Down by the banks of the hanky panky Plop! Down by the banks of the hanky panky Plop! Down by the banks of the hanky panky★ Down By the Banks of the Hanky Panky Lyrics:
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky
With an eep ipe ope oop
Ee-sock-a-diddy and a phbbllllt
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky
With an eep ipe ope oop
Ee-sock-a-diddy
and a phbbllllt
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky
With an eep ipe ope oop
Ee-sock-a-diddy and a phbbllllt
Plop!
★ Checkout This songs Aswell:
Many different versions abound and can be found online!
Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky,
Where the bull frogs jump from bank to banky,
With a hip, hop, hippity, hop,
Leap off a lily pad and go KERPLOP!
Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky,
Where the bull frogs jump from bank to banky,
With a flip, flop,
flippity, flop,
Leap off a lily pad and go KERPLOP!
Down by the banks of the hanky panky
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky
With an eep, ipe, ope, op,
Ee-sock-a-diddly and go KERPLOP!
Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky is a simple and fun song that is generally sung as part of a circle game. As with most rhymes the origins of Hanky Panky are unclear but it most likely originated in the United States somewhere around the 19th century. In 1895, a similar rhyme was published in Virginia: He
came to the banks Currently there are more versions of the rhyme in circulation and more playground games are performed while singing it, most notably a circle game and a counting game. The right hand of each player sits under the palm of the person on the right while the left hand of each player rests on top of the hand of the player to
the left. When the song starts a designated player will tap with their left hand the hand of the person sitting on the left and that person will tap as well another person’s hand at the next beat and the clap is passed along the circle until the song ends when someone’s hand is being clapped when saying “Kerplop”. Then, the person whose hand was touched during that beat is out and the song starts again until only one player remains. To play a
counting game, replace the first two words of the second line (Where the) with a random number (for example 10) and count backwards. An example: Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky, And so on. You can either choose to stop counting at “One” or when no bullfrogs jump anymore. Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky,
Of the Pasquotank,
Where the bull-frogs jump
From bank to bank….How to Play Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky
Down by the Banks Counting Game
10 bullfrogs jump from bank to banky,
With a hip, hop, hippity, hop,
Leap off a lily pad and go KERPLOP!
Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky,
9 bullfrogs jump from bank to banky,
With a hip, hop, hippity, hop,
Leap off a lily pad and go
KERPLOP!
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky,
With a hip, hop, hippity, hop,
Leap off a lily pad and go KERPLOP!