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The following is a list of string figures, various figures which can be made using a loop of string, and which occur in games such as cat's cradle. Most of the titles are translations and/or descriptions.
String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet. They may consist of singular images or be created and altered as a game, known as a string game, or as part of a story involving various figures made in sequence (string story). String figures have also been used for divination, such as to predict the sex of an unborn child. [1]
Camilla Gryski's Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Games. illus. Tom Sankey. Scholastic/Kids Can Press, 1995. ISBN 9780439779388/ ISBN 978-1-55337-090-1. Camilla Gryski's Favourite String Games. illus. Tom Sankey. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995. ISBN 978-1-55074-261-9. Let's Play: Traditional Games of Childhood. illus. Dušan Petričić. Toronto ...
A child playing tag.. This is a list of games that are played by children.Traditional children's games do not include commercial products such as board games but do include games which require props such as hopscotch or marbles (toys go in List of toys unless the toys are used in multiple games or the single game played is named after the toy; thus "jump rope" is a game, while "Jacob's ladder ...
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...
Cat whiskers in homemade detectors usually had a simple curved shape, but most professional cat whiskers had a coiled section in the middle that served as a spring. [30] The crystal required just the right gentle pressure by the wire; too much pressure caused the device to conduct in both directions. [ 5 ]
Whiskers, a fictional winged cat in Michael Moorcock's Multiverse; Whiskers, a fictional villain in The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter; Captain Whiskers, villain of the video game Sonic Rush Adventure; Mr. Whiskers, a character in the American animated television series Brandy & Mr. Whiskers
Mark Allen Sherman of Pasadena, California is a biochemist (PhD) and prominent string figure enthusiast. [1] His editing and writing led to the publishing of Kwakiutl String Figures by Julia Averkieva, "the most comprehensive Native American string figure collection ever assembled from a single tribe," (or nation) the Kwakwaka'wakw. [2]