About Ladushki

Ladushki (Ладушки) is the Russian pat-a-cake, the first clapping game a caregiver plays with a baby. The site is named after it because a clapping rhyme is the smallest complete piece of childhood: one person, one baby, a beat, and a surprise at the end. Everything else here is a version of that with more props.

The domain has been about children and play for over twenty years. Before this site it belonged to a small bilingual children's party business, which has closed. We kept the name and the subject and started again from the first rhyme.

Pages are written by a parent, by hand, and checked against printed collections where origins are claimed. Where a fact is a common explanation rather than a certainty, the page says so. There is no sign-up wall and the printables are plain pages.

To point out a mistake or ask for a rhyme, write to hello at this domain.