Cat's Cradle Game History

The art of making pictures or telling stories with string and your hands or sometimes feet.

Cat's cradle game history. String games like this one have a rich and varied 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. Cats Cradle is one of the oldest games in human history.

Cats Cradle String Games by Camilla Gryski 1983. The cats cradle is a game played with string one of the oldest games in human history. It does not appear that this game has a particular origin.

Hoenikker reportedly played it on the day the atomic bomb was droppedas opposed to expressing emotion about all of the people his invention had just killed. Its origin is unknown and it has been found in wildly diverse indigenous cultures from the Arctic to Europe to Indonesia. It is well known in China Korea Japan the Philippines and Borneo.

Known as fan sheng in China and Jack in the Pulpit in the UK its a simple game that requires teamwork and offers a great sense of satisfaction when mastered. Haddon has pointed out the familiar game of cats-cradle probably had its origin in Asia whence it was introduced into Europe. Back when I was in middle school I went through a phase where I was really into cats cradle.

The Oxford English Dictionary describes the origin as fancifull and notes the. According to Edward Tregear in The Maori race 1904 the Cats Cradle whai huhi or maui was known to the Maoris as to almost all the inhabitants of the Malay Archipelago and South SeasIt was played with the two hands and a piece of string assuming very complicated forms. Cats Cradle has moved a few times in its 50 years including to locations on Franklin and Rosemary streets in Chapel Hill.

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. Whale and fox. 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.