Cat's Cradle Game History

Cats Cradlegets its name from the childrens game.

Cat's cradle game history. I had to look up the history of Cats Cradle and was surprised to find that this clever game is played by children EVERYWHERE. Along with its cousins -- Jacobs ladder cup and saucer crows feet -- it is played by schoolchildren everywhere. Is a chamber orchestra that takes its name from one of the oldest games in recorded human history - the cats cradle.

Included are directions for four classic string games. String games such as Cats Cradle have been played around the world for thousands if not millions of years. That certainly sounds far-fetched today but it was a commonly held superstition back in the 1600s and 1700s.

The art of making pictures or telling stories with string and your hands or sometimes feet. 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. The cats cradle is a game played with string one of the oldest games in human history.

It is thought that this particular game traveled to Europe in the early seventeenth century with the tea trade from Asia. Cats Cradle String Games by Camilla Gryski 1983. Back when I was in middle school I went through a phase where I was really into cats cradle.

Cup and Saucer The Witchs Broom Cats Cradle and Jacobs Ladder as well as a brief history of string games. String games like this one have a rich and varied history. It has also spread to some extent among the Asiatic islands.

Cats Cradle is one of the oldest games in human history. Though it is most commonly seen as a childrens game in contemporary society cats cradle is one of the oldest and most widespread games found in recorded human history. Cats Cradle has moved a few times in its 50 years including to locations on Franklin and Rosemary streets in Chapel Hill.