How to Make a House Out of String

Loop string between your thumb and palm and also between your pinkies and ring fingers on both hands. Place your palms facing one another. Draw the string that's laying across your palms up over the middle fingers on each hand.

Insert your first finger under the string that's between the thumb and forefinger on each opposite hand. Keep your hands loose. Slip the ring finger under the string that lays over each ring finger on the opposite hand and pull it snug. This completes the formation of your start position for this string figure.

Turn your hands, moving the palms towards you while at the same time making loose fists, enclosing all parts of the string except for the section going around your thumbs.

Push your fingers in a slow swooping motion under the last free string and pull your hands up to start position formed in Steps 1 and 2. The string is now around the back of the hands and the thumbs are free.

Insert your thumbs through the triangle shapes on either side, across the underside of the design and draw the bottom string back through the triangle shapes with the thumbs.

Turn one hand downward, being careful to keep string formation on the hand. Use your forefinger and thumb to pull the string laying across the back of the hand forward and over the fingers. Complete the same procedure for the other hand.

Pull hands back to start position as completed in Step 2. You should see the outline of a house when you turn your thumbs upward.