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Cats Cradle Anyone?

Thought I'd impress my 7yo DD with my prowess at cats cradle, but I can't remember how to do it:o . I guess I thought it would be easy to remember once I had a bit of string. We used to do some quite complicated patterns when I was at school and pass them backwards and forwards to each other. Can anyone point me in the direction of some instructions? I Googled it with little success.
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  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,639 Forumite
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    Hi Bizzimum,

    These links might help, although I couldn't get the videos to open on this pc in the first link:

    Playground games

    String figures

    If you enter "cats cradle+game" into google you'll find more results.

    Pink
  • squeaky
    squeaky Posts: 14,129 Forumite
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    Bizzimum wrote:
    Thought I'd impress my 7yo DD with my prowess at cats cradle, but I can't remember how to do it:o . I guess I thought it would be easy to remember once I had a bit of string. We used to do some quite complicated patterns when I was at school and pass them backwards and forwards to each other. Can anyone point me in the direction of some instructions? I Googled it with little success.

    This looks helpful:-

    http://alysion.org/figures/main.htm
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  • lil_me
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    :rotfl: Goodness this brings back some memories :o
    One day I might be more organised...........:confused:
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  • vivaladiva
    vivaladiva Posts: 2,425 Forumite
    :rotfl: :rotfl:
    It kind of did and didn't for me!
    I have plenty of willpower - it's won't power I need.
  • jennyjelly
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    I'm 47 and can still do it! (How sad is that!)
    Oh dear, here we go again.
  • emilyt
    emilyt Posts: 2,051 Forumite
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    Thats brought back memories.
    Used to play this with my 2 DD's.
    Will have to get the string out.LOL
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