Boom, Snap, Clap

A percussion khel

Beats Notes

• Boom – one open pat near left shoulder (right shoulder for left-handed people)
• Snap – regular snap with right or left hand
• Clap – regular clap
• BuhBoom – one quick short Boom quickly followed by another Boom

Mix Beats to make tunes

• Says beats like Boom-Snap-Clap-BuhBoom, Boom-Snap-Clap-BuhBoom,
  Boom-Clap while doing these actions along.
• See that everyone is saying and doing in the right way
• Make more beats as above by mixing notes
• See that everyone “gets it” and can follow both beat sound and action

Khel

• Now deliberately do wrong action for the beat note and see what action everyone is doing (like Doctor ji, Neta ji, Gandhi ji, Guru ji khel)
• Whoever does the wrong action is “out”
• Let someone else be the shikshak/leader

Variation:

• Replace Boom with Jai, Snap with Shree and Clap with Ram
• Now tune can be – Jai Shree Ram, Jai Shree Ram, Shree Ram Shree Ram Jai Jai Jai.