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They’re also called Cootie…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 2, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: Lizzi
 

They’re also called Cootie Catchers in the US. There’s a book out by the Koosh people called The Cootie Catcher book. I bought one. They have directions on making your own, and ones that are printed that you just pull out and fold up. I have to say the home made ones are still more fun than the printed ones from the book… There was a funny episode of “Arthur” (the kid’s show) about a Cootie Catcher…

Posted in Girl games, Other Games | Tagged Paper "fortune teller"

This is so funny…but I’m…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 15, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: Sharon
 

This is so funny…but I’m from Canada and what you refer to as “Fortune Teller”, we refer to as “Cootie Catchers”. I’m almost 40 and we played with them as kids and now my 2 daughters and their friends use them. They operate the same way as your fortune tellers and we also used a method by which you choose colours and numbers to arrive at your “fortune”. We write silly fortunes in them about boys, about having stinky feet, etc, etc. I have no idea where the name Cootie Catchers originated.

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I remember making them with…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 13, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: CasalsK
 

I remember making them with loose-leaf paper. So there were some extra steps to make the paper square. We would even go as far as to tear off the part of the loose-leaf with the holes first. But that complicated things and made it harder to get a nice square piece as an end product. And yes, we wasted lots of paper as well. 🙂 Lay the loose-leaf paper lengthwise. Take the right-bottom corner and bring it up to the top edge of the paper. Crease the paper well. Now you’re left with a small rectangular piece that you can now crease and tear off. Scissors, ha! Who needed scissors?! You’ll now be left with a peice of paper folded into a right triangle. The 90 degree angle should be to the left. Unfold. Now fold the bottom left corner up to the top right. Crease well. Unfold. You should now have a square piece of paper with creases in the form of an X. Fold all four corners to the center of the X. Turn the paper over so that the smooth, unfolded side is up. Fold all four corners of this “smooth” side toward the center. This is when I would pull out my pen and start writing. If you followed the above step precisely, you should have a square piece of paper with four triangular flaps. Each flap is “split” down the middle. Not literally split, thus the quotes, but the previous folding leaves the triangle “split” into two smaller triangles. You’ll see it when you do it. 🙂 Each smaller triangle gets it’s own number…1-8. Then lift up each flap, draw a line down the middle of it and write your fortunes within the two smaller triangles. Close up all the flaps and turn the paper over. Now the square flaps should be facing you. On each flap, write a color name. Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green. Crease the paper again, half and then half again, following the lay of the square flaps and so that the triangular flaps are on the inside, square flaps on the outside. (This part is hard to verbalize but when you do it I think you’ll see what I mean). Now you’ve got your Paper Fortune Teller! I don’t remember a rhyme… all I remember is being asked to choose a color. The color chosen would be spelled out, each letter prompting the opening and closing of the Fortune Teller. When it stopped, you’d see the numbers inside. This is how we did it: “Pick a color.” “Yellow.” “Y-E-L-L-O-W” “Pick a number.” “3” “1, 2, 3” “Pick another number” “7” Then you’d open up the flap that had the #7 written on it and read it’s corresponding fortune. I don’t know about anyone else, but the more we used the Fortune Teller the more times we would ask, or be asked, to pick a number. That would help keep it fresh a little bit longer. 🙂 But it would inevitably go stale and you’d have to make another one. If you had enough foresight to do it in pencil, then all you’d have to do is erase the old fortunes and write new ones. But those 4 color pens were more fun. 🙂 And girls being girls, you always have to include some kind of mention of how many children you would have when you grew up. It was almost an unwritten rule of Paper Fortune Teller making. 🙂

Posted in Clap and Rhyme, Girl games, Other Games | Tagged Paper "fortune teller"

For Fortune Teller origami,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 24, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: Victoria Linchon [e-mail]
 

For Fortune Teller origami, you fold a square piece of paper in half and in half again, making 4 little squares. Opening the piece of paper and using the 4 little squares as a guide, you make a smaller square (or a diamond) by bringing each of the four corner to the middle. Then you turn it over (to the flat side)and bring each corner into the middle again, making a smaller square. When you turn it over, you should see 4 square flaps. Fold in half, square flaps out. Slip your thumb and index fingers under the 4 square flaps, push together like a fortune cookie and voila! foturne telling game. On the inside where the triangles are, write numbers on each half of triangle. Open triangles and write fortunes inside. Kinda hard to describe. Would be easier to show you but if you get a piece of paper and follow along, you ought ot be able to get the idea. I think there used to be a rhyme that went along with the fortune telling game but I don’t remember that now.

Posted in Clap and Rhyme, Girl games, Other Games | Tagged Paper "fortune teller"

Does anybody remember how…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: John Fornasar [e-mail]
 

Does anybody remember how to fold a sheet of paper into a “Fortune Teller”? I’m not sure of the correct name, but I remember all the girls on our block telling fortunes with a folded paper operated by the thumb and index finger of each hand. After viewing “Romy & Michelles High School Reunion”, where one of the characters plays with one of these things, my wife is trying to remember how to fold the 8-1/2 x 11″ paper. I’m out a ream of paper. Thanks…

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