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WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures

How to make string figures--described and illustrated: Cat's Cradle, Jacob's Ladder, and many other favorites.

http://www.alysion.org/string.htm

Kid's Guide to Easy String Figures

Learn 30 easy string figures. With illustrations and video.

http://www.alysion.org/figures/introkids.htm

This+That - String Figures

Learn to make string figures - Animated instructions.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~steve_glimpse/stringar.html

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Fleeting Glimpse. steve_glimpse frontiernet.net.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~steve_glimpse/

International String Figure Association

Since 1978 members of the International String Figure Association have been working hard to gather, preserve and distribute string figure knowledge so that ...

http://www.isfa.org/

Links to other string figure web sites

The Survival, Origin, and Mathematics of String Figures: Includes a topological analysis of string figures, a list of museums with string figure artifacts, ...

http://www.isfa.org/isfa5.htm

The Ancient Art of Hawaiian String Figures

String figures have been found in almost all of the cultures of the world and new ones continue to be created. Most people remember the games of Cat's ...

http://www.stringfigure.com/

String Figure: Honu (Turtle)

Simple instructions with photographs for making a traditional turtle figure. Includes an associated chant.

http://www.stringfigure.com/Direct/Honu.html

String Figures

Brian Cox, the Incredible Stringman, tells a story called "Going Fishing" illustrated with string figures. Photos and text of his performance.

http://www.whimsical-workshop.mb.ca/string.html

Whimsical Workshop - Origami and String Figures

Offers workshops on origami and string figures, juggling and magic. Provides bio, links and description of services.

http://www.whimsical-workshop.mb.ca/

Strings on Your Fingers: String Figures, Tricks, Catches, Designs ...

Michael P. Garofalo does presentations on string figures art, and performances of string figures, catches, and tricks in Northern California and Southern ...

http://www.gardendigest.com/string/

Class about String Figures for 3rd to 5th Grade Students

resources for learning more about string figures and creative art projects ... String Figures and How to Make Them: A Study of Cat’s-Cradle in Many Lands. ...

http://www.gardendigest.com/string/class1.htm

String figure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_game

STRING GAMES

make it easier for beginners to make string figures, the fingers of the hands have ..... This string figure is a great fun to make especially if you hate ...

http://www.vidyaonline.net/arvindgupta/stringgames.pdf

String Figures - String Games - Mom's Minivan Car Travel Games

There are several resources available on the web with pictures and instructions for how to make all kinds of string figures. Here are my favorites. ...

http://www.momsminivan.com/article-stringfigures.html

String Games

San Juan School District's Dine String Games reproduces an article by Will Wirt and Mark Sherman from the Bulletin of the International String Figure ...

http://dine.sanjuan.k12.ut.us/string_games/index.html

String Games | Games

The numbers in parentheses after each string figure title are location codes that indicate where each figure was observed during our three visits to the ...

http://dine.sanjuan.k12.ut.us/string_games/games/index.html

Amazon.com: String Games (Klutz): Anne Akers Johnson: Books

This book is a sequel to Johnson's "Cat's Cradle", which contained five string figures. This book has seven more, from around the world--Paraguay, ...

http://www.amazon.com/String-Games-Klutz-Akers-Johnson/dp/1570540403

Amazon.com: Fascinating String Figures (Master String Figures ...

Amazon.com: Fascinating String Figures (Master String Figures): International String Figure Association: Books.

http://www.amazon.com/Fascinating-String-Figures-Master/dp/0486404005

String Figures and Shamanism

An essay by Lois Stokes, with speculations on the role of string figures in Hawaiian culture.

http://www.huna.org/html/string.html