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Criss Cross Absurdity – Rhymes and Sitting Manner
July 10th, 2011
Adults used to tell kids to sit "Indian Style" when asking them to sit cross-legged on the basis. You lot don't hear that phrase used and then much anymore. According to my quaternary grader, now they tell you to sit "Criss-Cantankerous Applesauce" in pre-schoolhouse. In grade schoolhouse, they tell you lot to "Sit Pretzel Style".
There'due south a rhyme that teachers say to students when they want them to quiet down and sit cantankerous-legged on the floor.
Criss-Cross Applesauce
Give your hands a clap
Criss-Cross Applesauce
Put them in your lap.
In that location's some other Criss-Cross Applesauce rhyme that people do on kids' backs. Here are the words to it:
Criss-cross applesauce
Spiders itch upwards your dorsum
Cool Breeze,
Tight squeeze
Now you've got the shiverees!
Here's how y'all play this rhyme-game:
1. Make an "x" on the child'southward back.
two. Walk your fingers up the kid's back.
3. Blow on the child's neck.
iv. Hug the child.
five. Tickle the kid's back!
This video shows how to play "Criss-Cantankerous Applesauce":
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July 14th, 2011 at iii:25 am
In France we have no rhyme about it probably because to sit cross-legged is said "être assis en tailleur" (to be sitting tailor style) considering tailors used to sit down this fashion on their working tabular array, so no user-friendly crss-crss or whatever other inspiring sound(s).
May 16th, 2013 at 9:52 pm
Do y'all know the remainder of the song?
May 27th, 2016 at 11:44 pm
we used to dirge this "Criss Cross" before playing hopscotch to keep the players at the desired number. We would both cross our arms out in front of ourselves and hold each others easily. While bouncing our clasped hands up and down we would dirge…
"Criss Cross, Applesauce, no one else tin can play with the states. If they do we'll take our shoe and vanquish them 'til they're blackness and blue… criss cantankerous".
If someone came up after the game started nosotros would tell them we had already 'criss crossed' and they knew not to accept it personally.
May 28th, 2016 at 12:03 am
I recall role of that dirge as part of this one:
Practiced night, slumber tight. Don't permit the bedbugs bite. Merely if they practise, then accept your shoe and hitting them till they're blackness and blueish.
April 29th, 2017 at 11:15 pm
We did it as
Cross cross applesauce
Tight squeeze
Brisk breeze
Spiders crawling up your back
Snakes sliding downwardly your back
Now yous've got the chills!
September 27th, 2017 at 6:51 pm
Criss cross, applesauce
Break an egg over your caput
Spiders crawling up your dorsum
Compression hither, pinch at that place
Absurd breeze, tight squeeze!
At present yous've got the chillies!
September 29th, 2017 at x:45 pm
We did a more gory version I don't call up all of it but hither's what I do:
Egg in your pilus and the yolk runs down
Knife in your back and the claret gushes out
Criss cross applesauce now do you take the chills
January 16th, 2019 at 7:22 am
Ugh, why not just say Indian Mode or cantankerous legged? What's with the applesauce bit? I am a Native American and, all this politically correct stuff sounds like special snowflake garbage. Information technology's sit Indian Way – exit it solitary or, if you must just say sit cross legged.
Jan 16th, 2019 at 2:59 pm
Information technology seems saying criss cross absurdity for sitting cross legged goes back to the seventies. That's the earliest reference I've found to it in print. It can be found in the volume called "Uncomplicated Physical Didactics: A Developmental Arroyo" (1978) by Daniel D. Arnheim, Robert A. Pestolesi. In that book they recommended using the expression to be culturally sensitive, "Use inclusive language: Say, 'boys and girls,' 'folks,' 'anybody,' or 'you lot all.' Don't use stereotypical phrases, such every bit 'sit Indian style' or 'sit tailor style'; instead, say 'sit with your legs crossed' or 'sit down crisscross apple sauce.'"
According to Wiktionary, "Generally used past nursery school and primary school teachers to children, sometimes followed by 'spoons in the bowl' to hateful 'hands in your lap', strengthening analogy with a bowl of applesauce; alternatively, 'spoons in your bowl' or 'spoons in your lap'."
It's my impression that information technology's also said for the sound of it (sometimes in a sing-song voice) and that people don't think near the pc aspect of information technology so much whatever more than. It'southward merely the expression that teachers use at present.
There are rhymes that utilise the phrase that become back a little before. 1 is called Criss Cross Absurdity and is played on the child's dorsum. It'due south like to the X Marks the Spot rhyme.
There'due south a reference to "Criss cross applesauce" in a book called "Street Games" (1976) past Alan Milberg. It says, "The final part of the ritual [to decide the rules of a game] is called 'cementing in the rules.' Once the leader specifies what should or should not be included in the game, he sings, 'Crisscross absurdity…'" Is anyone familiar with using it in this way?
Every bit an bated, there's besides a volume called "Criss-Cross. Applesauce" (1978) Tomé Do Paola. It's about reading together every bit a family.
Did anyone use the expression every bit function of any other rhymes or games?
October 7th, 2020 at seven:53 pm
We used criss cantankerous applesauce as a leap rope song (1960s-70s) only I cannot remember there residue of the lyrics.