Cat's Cradle Game History

Is a chamber orchestra that takes its name from one of the oldest games in recorded human history - the cats cradle.

Cat's cradle game history. 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 String Games by Camilla Gryski 1983. CATS CRADLE is one of the worlds simplest string games.

It is probably one of the oldest games. The art of making pictures or telling stories with string and your hands or sometimes feet. Cats Cradle is one of the oldest games in human history.

It is one of the oldest examples of human play and thus ties in with the idea that the book though grounded in a specific historical moment is principally concerned with the entirety of the human story. 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. I had to look up the history of Cats Cradle and was surprised to find that this clever game is played by children EVERYWHERE.

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. Using simply one string - alone in pairs or in groups - across times and cultures humans have created figures invented stories and let their imagination soar. 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 has moved a few times in its 50 years including to locations on Franklin and Rosemary streets in Chapel Hill. Included are directions for four classic 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.

String figures are a storytelling tradition in many cultures around the world including among Arctic Indigenous Peoples Aboriginal. It does not appear that this game has a particular origin. It has also spread to some extent among the Asiatic islands.