Here is the church and here is the steeple...

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If you know the next lines, where did you grow up?

We did it all the time as children. It didnt make sense then. It doesnt make sense now.

It popped into my head and no one here knew what I was talking about with with the finger action. I grew up West Mids.

Devon

Open the doors and there’s all the people - Essex

My mum taught me ‘Here are the pews and here are the people’ - she was from Clapham.

Northern England and we’d recite it with actions - although looking back on it now it seems a dumb thing to do!! My kids/grandkids weren’t impressed when young.

I remember, North Wiltshire, my family all did this, from my gran to my aunts and uncles, and at school too

Eyes,nose, cheeky, cheeky,chin,
Cheeky,cheeky, chin , nose, eyes!

Point to each bit of the face, then back again!

Open the doors and here's the people!
Rural Kent.

Open the doors and here's the people.
Here's the parson climbing the stairs
And here's the parson saying his prayers.

N. Ireland.

We did a thing where you end up with a fist and the thumb waggling like the pulpit

Manchester. Yes, this was popular.

We would do hands back to back, hooking pairs of fingers together one by one (little finger first) and then turn your hands down and under towards you so you end up with fists interlocked and one thumb poking through. I remember that bit took a long time to learn but I was very proud once I'd mastered it!

another one I had forgotten!
Here's the lady's knives and forks
Here's the lady's table
Here's the lady's looking glass
and here's the baby's cradle

similar to this, did anyone play cat's cradle? you has to pass a loop of string backwards and forwards between two people or around a circle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_cradle

Open the doors. And there are the people.
Belfast.

Ditto

Open the doors and heres all the people. South East

NE coast

"We sure are cute for two ugly people"

'Two little dickie birds sitting on' a wall
One named Peter and one named Paul.'..
is an entirely different rhyme
Learned them both from my big brother growing up in Shropshire

This.
East Mids.

Learnt it at Brownies.

Open the doors and OUT come the people!

Bedfordshire

"Open the doors, here are all the people"

Australia, but English grandma where I think it came from.

This. Worcestershire/warwickshire

Look inside and there's the people wiggle fingers grew up in Lancashire and Buckinghamshire but parents were from West Midlands.

This, south Wales. You wiggle the "people" as you say it!

Or if you make the church roof with your fingers over one another rather than intertwined do "but where's all the people?"