Cat's Cradle Game History

Our Cats Cradle and Other String Games uses the Haddon and Rivers terminology for defining the strings on the fingers and features jumbo yarn.

Cat's cradle game history. String games like this one have a rich and varied history. The cats cradle is a game played with string one of the oldest games in human history. In the mid-80s David and the Penleys passed the torch to Frank HeathAs we all realized during two weekends of anniversary shows in December and January the rest is history.

Cats cradle is one of the oldest games in recorded human history and involves creating various string figures either individually or by passing a loop of. String games such as Cats Cradle have been played around the world for thousands if not millions of years. Included are directions for four classic string games.

Cats Cradle String Games by Camilla Gryski 1983. Sometimes a whole drama was played by means of the changing shapes. Rather it was developed independently by many cultures around the same time.

Cup and Saucer The Witchs Broom Cats Cradle and Jacobs Ladder as well as a brief history of string games. CATS CRADLE is one of the worlds simplest string games. In the American colonies Cats Cradle or Cratch Cradle was one of the earliest and most popular of all known string games.

As Vonnegut says For maybe a hundred thousand years or more grownups have been waving tangles of string in their childrens faces to form nothing but a bunch of Xs between somebodys hands 165-166. Variations of the game have been found in cultures across the world including Eastern Asia Africa the Americas and even the Arctic giving the game a significant amount of interest among anthropologists and ethnologists. The best guess of most historians is that Cats Cradle got its start in a rudimentary form somewhere in Southeast Asia near China and Korea where the game is still played today.

The use of cats in the cradle to describe something dangerous appears to come from an old wives tale that if allowed into its crib a cat would kill an infant by sucking out its breath. Cats Cradle has moved a few times in its 50 years including to locations on Franklin and Rosemary streets in Chapel Hill. Our Cats Cradle and Other String Games 3014 uses the Haddon and Rivers terminology for defining the strings on the fingers and features jumbo yarn.