Question Posted Saturday December 2 2006, 11:18 am
I'm making something for a school project and something i need to know about to do it, is;
what are the names of those things kids used to make out of paper? They ask you to pick a colour or number and then they move the folded piece of paper with their finger and thumb. Then in the end, they fold over one piece which the other person picked and read out whatever they wrote there.
I need to know a name asap. So thankyou to anyone who can help me!!
angie91 answered Saturday December 2 2006, 2:17 pm: Hmm, Well I know what you're talking about. I searched google, and all I found was "oragami fortune tellers" but I know there was a name for it. OH! I KNOW! COOTIE CATCHERS!! My little sister just came in and I asked her. They're called cootie catchers. Apparently, back like hundreds of years ago, girls were thought of as cootie carriers, and and basically if you don't remember from the second grade, cooties are basically a made up, "invisible" disease that children accuse other children of having. What that has anything to do with fortune tellers? I have no idea, but when I went to this site, it explains that the game originated as that little fortune teller thing being a game that you would use to chase other kids around to catch their cooties. I'm not sure when it changed to a fortune teller. But thats pretty cool. Good luck with your project! Lots of love,
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Razhie answered Saturday December 2 2006, 2:13 pm: In the US they are normally called Cootie Catchers, in other countries they are Scrunchies and Paper Fortune Tellers. Check it out:
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