We used to do something like that as kids. What a beautiful Granddaughter and time spent together. Such a treasure!

❤❤ i used to look like her in high school, my senior year. So sweet.

Oh my, we did these all the time as a kid.

Grandma your granddaughter is very close to you she always happy cause she loves you a lot and her heart is full of happiness and joy

I had forgotten all about string games. I used to love them as a child.

I had to save this video 👍 also my dad long ago taught me the string game "brought back memories"🤗 thanks grama

I love your video about navajo hair bush I been canyon de chelly

I used to do this with my gran growing up and we live in Iowa. She was so good at it and I was so bad. My fingers would just never cooperate with all of those movements. We also did a two person version and I was good at that one.

I would have a bunch of knot's 😂....all tangled up ....i would really need alot of practice.. Excelente job NAVAJO GRANDMA ❤️🤗

I remember doing them as a kid, but forgot how to do them. It's what we did before internet.

Oh goodness! I forgot all about these wonderful games!! Our children need to stay children longer again. Get off the flippin’ computer & PLAY with some string & with each other! Thank you for this & yr granddaughter is so cute!!! God bless you both!! 👍🙏🏻♥️👏

I learned those as a child so many years ago and had completely forgotten about them. Thank you for bringing back those easy ways to have fun. Great times when fun was at your fingertips.

OMG! My father taught me a tiny bit of string games, but I never reached that skill level!! So good to see your grand daughter learning her language! ❤️😁

My kids love string games!

Dear Navajo Grandma. What a wonderful way to play and at the same time strenghten your memory and dexterity skills. I can't believe that the same thing my mum taught me when I was a child. We live in Europe. So far from you, yet same thing being passed from generation to generation.Back then there was no phones and other devices causing our thoughts to jump like a monkey- from one thought to another. This game has only positive outcomes-brings you peace, happiness, laughter, sense of accomplishment,...I could go on and on. You can play alone or in a group... It doesn't need a battery to run so it's eco-friendly! I also love origami. It goes to similar category. Thank you Navajo Grandma for reminding me of this game! Greetings to your family. Your granddaughter is a very pretty and nice young woman. You can clearly see she is so proud of you!😊 All the best👋❤

I had forgotten about these string games that I learned from a classmate in early elementary school days (about 50 years ago). I am getting up straight away and cutting me some twine and see what all I remember. I know I can still do a cup and saucer for sure. Thank you again for your videos. You just get my brain to thinking whether it be making fry bread outside, shampooing my hair with yucca root or playing string games. As I told you before in one of my comments, you are indeed a treasure.

Wow... that's awesome.. pretty neat how you remembered how to do those string games from your childhood years.

This brought me back to my childhood. Now I'm going to cut some string for games. 🙂

This is the most wholesome channel I have come across! I just binged watch all of your videos, Ma’am, you are the sweetest person I have seen. I also tried your fry bread recipe with some tries and errors and I can say I will be doing it all the time. It's really interesting to learn about other cultures, their language and their history.

String game is very old because it's played all over the world.

Thanks so much for writing out the words and sounding them out, I try to follow along. I am T ł 'ááshchí'í born for Táchii'nii, I seen my clan in the background on the shelf. Your granddaughter is so cute and fun. These string games are great! Thanks.

That's a monarch butterfly! Love you and your granddaughter. So beautiful!

My grandma taught me how to make a Jacob’s Ladder and the cup and saucer. She and her sisters. It was such fun when I had them and my great grandmother. My grandma was born in 1898. I really enjoy your channel. Thank you for sharing and bringing me joy. 🌹

Thank you so much now I have something that my boys & us can do when we can't go play outside. Some of these I knew already like the witches broom, cats cradle, & cup. 🙂

I'm so glad you're back! I find the part about the weaving against the spiders in the summertime fascinating!

The way you keep such an important culture alive and passing this on is really lovely. Im a 55 year old white woman, who can't get enough of you and your commitment to knowledge that we all need. Thanks. I love hearing these ancient words coming out of you, and then from her lips, her ancient language. It makes me feel like crying with happiness for the world.

Grandma it's interesting what you could make out of string I love the angel and the star that you made love and hugs always grandma

Hi Navajo Grannie. My mama and I use to do that when I was little./I had forgotten. Thank you for helping me remember that fun game.

Navajo grandma im from tuba city az on navajo nation

HOw have I not found this channel before? This is the cutest thing! I remember learning some of these in grade school. I remember that when doing the teacup, right before you release the pinkies, when you have 2 points on your thumbs, that's a cat. Cat's ears on the thumbs, wide round face, and the crossed strings in the middle are whiskers.

Thankyou so much for sharing your string games and all the names for them. It always gave me such joy as a child and I am so glad I found your wonderful channel. Thankyou! 💜

This is awesome. How cool. I remember playing with strings.

I remember learning these from a little kit/book my parents bought me as a kid. I am not native and I had no idea until now that this came from Native Americans. WOW!

i loveeee string games! i used to do this when i was a kid, thank you for this wonderful video!

Love this

This is priceless. Thank you for sharing

Neat video from a Peruvian

I remember doing strings when little but they didn't describe to us what it was. We knew our ancestors are Indian and yo this day they hide in the Mountains of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 and not want to tell us past history and they were scared still. There are 14 in our familia including parents there are in our "tribe" we call ourselves 🙂 122 grandchildren and great-grandchildren

Woah how fun! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

your granddaughter hyping you up next to you while you show her the string shapes is so funny

Thank you. I'll feature this in our company blog. Ahe'hee' laa doo baa 'ahee nisin and look out for our educational video games at a school near you.

I know how to do the teacup, My stepbrother taught me when I was a kid.

Keep making your you vidos

Modern learning systems are taken from native games, every professional sport played today is from games played in the Americas before the genocide....Grammar are awesome this girl here will be showing this to her kids without realizing it because it's already in her from creation and maybe just been asleep but gram has woken it up 8n her. Way cool

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Wow

I was always taught the “gate” one you did was actually the two coyotes running away.

I wish she could speak Navajo

Oh wow. In Central Pomo language, só is "clover".

Hey, I have to say the strring game is not for me. I am a man 😆. So, you have a pretty grand daughter,. I am too old ( it's fun). If I come back into the world I will marry a Native.😘.

ten 4. i love you 💀