Customer Reviews

String Games

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Most of this book is for advanced but you can find also
beginning figures (Scissors, Jacob's ladder, Walking Sticks)

Then you will find figures a little less easy (Chest ornament, Fishing net and lightning).

Next you will try figures a little more difficult
(Hina's skipping rope, Teniako's bridge, Ten Men and Crayfish).

I'm very found of series. In the book there are three :
Mr Umake, Crabs and Mt. Fuji.

With a good friend, you will make the figures for two
(a Mountain, Looking Glass and Sting Ray).

Tricks are things i love because they amaze my children.
My youger child (6) did the "Buttonhole trick" to his friend.
Trick are easy and you feel like a magician!
The other tricks are Caroline Island catch, Cutting off the fingers 1 and Cutting off the fingers 2.

But i think people prefer, first, tri-dimensional string figures
(Two mountains and a stream, King'trone and Howler monkey'mouth).
When you see a "Butterfly" like a real, it's really magic.

An excellent book with photos to each step.

You have also the sources of the figures, if you want learn more
about string figures.

In the book you will find three good strings (not same longer).
An excellent idea.

This is a wonderful book. My son got it when he was 7 and got hooked on making string figures, which is a very educational pastime. This book shows how to make figures in a pretty wide range of complexity, and the 3 colored strings it comes with are perfect: the color of each string varies along the string, which sometimes helps in figuring out the patterns. (My son has used the strings so much that they've come apart a couple of times, but the ends can easily be glued together again.)

If this book inspires a passion for string figures, one can move on to classic collections of figures by anthropologists like Caroline Furness Jayne and famous mathematicians like Rouse-Ball (both published by Dover). Very educational, and all you need is... a string!

I bought the String Games book for my 12-year old daughter for Christmas last year and she loved it. Some of the techniques were a bit complicated, but she figured out most of them after a few months. She played with the strings so much that one of them popped (reason for the 4 stars).

A great book and activity for kids who need something other than TV and movies. The history of string games makes youngsters understand a bit what it was like to play creatively before society decided to overstimulate them.

This is not the book for a beginner. It does not explain things clearly, especially not for an 8 year old girl trying to learn string games for the first time. It is more suitable for someone already familiar with these games, but even then I was not impressed.

I was so confused by this, because I too thought the string was included. This is just so annoying, as this is a gift and I only just realized the string is missing. (I thought it was in the box, but what I had seen was actually a piece of the packaging - learned my lesson there to slow down a bit when verifying contents!!) The other reviews I read prior to purchasing mention the included string, and I understand now that the reviews may have been placed with the wrong product. Argh!

So, I've ordered the separate string which of course will arrive after Christmas. Double-Argh!!

Looking through the book it does look a bit tough for a child, so I am a wee bit concerned about comprehension; but it does look fun and impressive. I had to give this a 3 because it appears to have potential...but I won't really know until the string arrives. :(

Dear Amazon.com, please do not include customer reviews for the wrong products. I purchased "String Games" and there were no strings included, despite several customer reviews under the "String Games" product mentioning the colored strings that come with the book. I was surprised to see that when my book arrived, it did not include any strings. Now I see that the customer reviews were not for the item I ordered, although they were listed under the item I ordered. They were for "String Games - spiral bound" which apparently comes with strings. I am very disappointed because I certainly meant to order the "String Games" book for my child that actually came with strings. Imagine that.

bought this book for my boyfriends 8 yr old daughter for christmas and im not impressed. first, no strings were included... at all! also the book is a little advance for someone who is not fimilar with 'playing' with strings. it needs a basic beginners section in my oppion. not at all what i expected. i did read the reviews and i wish i would of listen.

Maybe a good book for someone older, but way to difficult for an 8 year old.

This book does seem slightly advanced for the 8 year old I purchased it for, but she's a good reader and I'm sure she can get some help with it if she needs it. I flipped thru some pages before wrapping it and tried my hand at Jacob's ladder, I'm a little rusty at string games, but I loved that it had colorful pic's and step by step instructions. This book is LOADED with different games and things to make.