A children's game in which participants gently clap their hands in time to the words of a rhyme.
（按儿歌韵律拍手的）儿童游戏
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She's also naïve and curious, and praeternaturally sensitive - her epiphanies are simple, involving scarlet gloves or rose-tinted glasses, playing pat-a-cake quietly to herself or imagining conversations in front of the mirror.
Hence the unravelling of what should have developed as a pat-a-cake Q & A session into a short, sharp masterclass in discourtesy.
The fact is, children love repetition of good things, from pat-a-cake games to stories and songs.
From early spring to late fall, he will leave his apartment, limp across the street and coax whoever is willing to play patty-cake with him until the bus arrives.
Clapping hands to the pat-a-cake rhyme gives your baby practice in coordinating actions with words.
Who can remain sane watching a load of professional Bavarians performing their version of ‘Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker's man’?
From peek-a-boo to chess, from pat-a-cake to baseball, games occupy a central role in the lives of most children from infancy to adolescence.
We laughed as classmates screwed up patty-cake and made clowns of themselves.
The four began seated on wooden boxes facing each other and started what looked like a super-advanced game of pat-a-cake.
Ashley looks like she had a really bad game of patty-cake.
The infant guidelines involve a parent or caregiver planning physical activity with a variety of baby games, such as peekaboo and pat-a-cake, and sessions in which the child is held, rocked, and carried to new environments.
It seems that White has led his men even further away from the silly pat-a-cake days when South Africa shared New Zealand's ‘vision ‘of candyfloss rugby, as paraded in the Super 12.’
Evidently, the girls didn't pay much attention, since they are shown sleeping and playing patty-cake instead.
Hip-hip hurray - by the time he's a one-year old, your baby will be able to clap his hands together, so you can play games such pat-a-cake or just clap along to music.