Cat's Cradle

Amber · Member User Online: Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 381

where you had string or wool tied ,put between each middle finger and do different things ,you eventualy end up with a cat's cradle.

Serenity · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

Oh yeahhhhh forgot about that! We's raid nans knitting wool to do it, you could make jacobs ladder and there were a sequence of about 6 things to get to cats cradle, whatever one of those was, I've always wondered lol

Can anyone remember Chinese skipping? With loads of elastic bands tied into a continuous line? Two people would stand either end, legs apart with the lastic bands stretched between them, then the third person would do a routine of stepping on one side, pulling one side over the other with their feet, and jumping clear or landing in a certain way! I loved this! If I was on my own I'd often arrange the string of bands between two kitchen chairs.

I think the art of playing has definitely gawn forever

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redhead · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject:

rem both these cats cradle used to spend hours doing , used to nick mums wool as well

I rem the elastics loved it , was ok till the elastic broke ouch , when we couldn't get the elastic we would use wool . string I can picture us now outside our house waiting our turn but there was always one who could do the sequence kids of today don't know what fun there missing

Thumper · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject:

I can remember doing the Cats cradle, can't remember the elastic band thing though, Poor Deb, no friends, had to play with a chair, must've been ever so lonely

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Serenity · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:31 am Post subject:

lol

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Dreama · CC&S User Online: Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 349

we used to call it french skipping, and i can't for the life of me remember the rhyme, but we always had to twang the elastic at the end of each one lol.
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