This is my friend

Stolen from: A Network for Jewish Youth

Everybody sits in a circle. Somebody starts up a beat; hitting their knees twice then clapping their hands twice. Everybody joins in and gets used to the beat.

As everybody claps away, the first person says their own name once in time to the beat, in time to the first hand clap. On the second set of claps, they would say someone else's name, who would say their own name again, and then someone else's name, and so on.

Players are "out" if they mess up the rhythm or say names at the wrong time. Obviously, you might want to be more patient with younger players, or people as rhythmically challenged as myself.