One thing that probably everybody does but is still fun is to jump rope and say the alphabet and see how far you can get. If you get all the way to Z then start saying it backwards. It's pretty challenging to jump rope while shouting the alphabet backwards at the top of your lungs...

SFTDP, but I thought of a bunch more stuff to say.

Me and my friends do Miss Susie Had A Steamboat as a hand-clapper. I need to come up with a better hand-clapping routine for it sometime, the one it has doesn't fit. But anyway. The idea of a rhyme being used for something different got me thinking.

There's one rhyme that everyone uses for picking who's It, but could be used for jumping rope just fine. It goes, Bubblegum, bubblegum, in a dish, How many pieces do you wish? One, two, three, &c. 

*rereads post and is astonished at how rambly it is - oh well* 

This is from one of the Redwall books by Brian Jaques - maybe kind of abstract, but it's used as a jumprope rhyme in the book, and it's got a good rhythm.

Down in the cellars where nobeast goes

Littlebob Hare went running

He ran and he ran and he followed his nose

Where the rocks never let the sun in.

He got very tired and sat by a pool,

Then found out to his cost, sir,

That he was naught but a silly fool,

Who'd goten himself lost there.

"Oh, woe is me," cried Littlebob,

"Tis dark and so unsightly, 

I must find some way out of here

To where the sun shines brightly."

So he climbed up to the coiling snake,

All damp and slippy-feeling,

And found beyond the big plum cake,

A hole right through the ceiling.

He went up through and chased the blue,

And made it home for tea, sir,

He beat the tide and spinies, too,

But his mamma tanned his tailfur!

If you haven't read the book Lord Brocktree, this is about a little hare who gets lost in some caves. The coiling snake and plum cake are rock formations - he climbs up near the ceiling and finds a tunnel. The blue it talks about is strange lighting from the sea, and the "spinies" are little crabs in the tunnel. The rest is self-evident. Kind of strange, but I hope it helps! Sorry this is so long.

-Emily