Naturally, these studies tended to include many of the faults associated with the gathering of folklore and folk song examples in the eras studied. Both were considered landmark works in studies conducted on respective sides of the Atlantic. However, the first studies to focus solely on this area were William Wells Newell's Games and Songs of American Children (1883) and Alice Gomme's The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1894-8). Northal's English Folk Rhymes (1892) all included singing games. Joseph Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Robert Chambers’s Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1826), James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) and Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1849), and G. Singing games began to be recorded and studied seriously in the nineteenth century as part of the wider folklore movement. The same term is also used for a form of video game that involves singing. As a collection, they have been studied by folklorists, ethnologists, and psychologists and are seen as important part of childhood culture.
A singing game is an activity based on a particular verse or rhyme, usually associated with a set of actions and movements.
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