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I do remember this one. We called it “Cat’s Cradle”. I don’t think I ever played it, though childhood was 10,000 years ago so I may have just forgotten.

Yeah. Had books and books about how to do different things. Cats cradle was the most well known...shape (?), but use to know so many. It was considered a girly thing like the fortune teller puzzles out of paper. A shame for the boys, it was fun to learn.

I remember playing it in elementary school in the 80-90s, where it was popular for a while. I wasn't very good at it.

This was in Finland.

we called it "cat's cradle" and yeah, we 'played' it in the American Midwest in the 80's and 90's

I remember playing that with other kids in elementary school. We knew the first 6 or 8 moves, then would just make it up from there... we'd end up with a complete mess of string, but we didn't care, and we'd keep going anyway.

I played this as a kid growing up in Germany. I also learned it from my mother but I forgot how it's played.

Yes I remember this but we used elastic bands instead of strings. Simply because we had them more readily accessible at school. I've also seen it done with string or yarn.

And yes usually girls would be the ones playing with that but not too exclusively.