Game
Schoolchildren often play Pease Porridge Hot by pairing off and clapping their hands together to the rhyme as follows:
- Pease (clap both hands to thighs) porridge (clap own hands together) hot (clap partner's hands),
- pease (clap both hands to thighs) porridge (clap own hands together) cold (clap partner's hands),
- Pease (clap thighs) porridge (clap own hands) in the (clap right hands only) pot (clap own hands),
- nine (clap left hands only) days (clap own hands) old (clap partner's hands).
- (Repeat actions for second stanza)
NOTE: The actions are performed during recitation of the word or phrase, not following.
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