Playing Pattycake (Pat-a-Cake)

8 people bested this! 1 person is curious.

Do you think this is the best?

"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man" is a traditional English nursery rhyme.

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can. Pat it and roll it and mark it with "B" and put it in the oven for Baby and me.

It is often accompanied by hand-clapping between two people, a clapping game known as pat-a-cake (also rendered as patty-cake or pattycake), after the rhyme. It alternates between a normal individual clap with two-handed claps with the other person. The hands may be crossed as well. This allows for a possibly complex sequence of clapping that must be coordinated between the two.

If told by a parent to a child, the "B" and "baby" in the last two lines are sometimes replaced by the child's first initial and first name.

There are alternative renditions which have the third line as follows:

Pit it and pat it and mark it with "B" (In this version the child pats, then "pricks" the palm with a finger, then draws a "B" on the palm.)Roll it and roll it and mark it with a "B"Roll it and pat it and mark it with a "B" 

-info from Wikipedia