Many of us want to know what will happen to us in a day, week, month, year, to read the thoughts of other people. It has always been and always will be, because the desire to open the veil of secrets of the future is inherent in almost every person. But what if you recall the carefree school years and make an origami fortune teller?
This toy is a sheet of plain or colored paper folded in a certain way, on which various answers to various questions are applied. Such a fortuneteller is put on the fingers, and in this way they get answers to all their questions: “How will I pass the exam?”, “Do I like N?”, “Does he love me?” So let's craft this toy with our children and play this exciting game. If you do not know how to make an origami fortune teller, this article will help you in this matter.
What will be required for manufacturing?
You can make a fortune teller in a matter of minutes. To work, we need:
- a sheet of white paper;
- scissors or paper cutter;
- pen, colored pencils or felt-tip pens.
Take a sheet of paper (you can take color) of A4 size (21x28 centimeters). If you suddenly don’t have one at hand, don’t be upset, because in this case any other one will do. However, remember that the length of each side of the sheet should not be less than 21 cm, otherwise the toy will not work with us (it just does not fit on your fingers).
Detailed manufacturing instructions
So, you have stocked up with everything you need to work and now you can begin to work on making origami from paper.
The fortuneteller will be sure to leave if you follow these tips:
- First of all, put a sheet of paper on the table, then take the left corner and lift it up. As a result, you should get a right triangle.
- Now take its bottom corner and connect with its left extreme point of the base. The result is a triangle.
- If an A4 sheet of paper was used as the starting material, when folding you form an extra rectangle at the top, which should be carefully cut with scissors or a clerical knife. In the end, you can just tear it off with your hands.
- Expand the resulting square.
- As a result of folding the square, you form two fold lines with a common intersection point. Now add all the corners of the square to its center. You should get a slightly smaller square.
- Lay the sheet on the wrong side and fold the square again in the same way as in step 5.
- Now bend the figure in half, straighten it, then rotate it 90 degrees and bend it again, straighten it again.
- Lay the fortune teller with the other side facing you and carefully open the corners of the small squares. The toy will easily begin to fold over the resulting bends. Corners will begin to open, forming a kind of pocket for fingers.
Our origami fortuneteller is almost ready, it remains only to fill it with the necessary information for it to work.
Decoration toys
First paint the outer pockets with colored pencils. And on the inside of them, put the numbers from 1 to 8 in order. We open the toy and fill it with answers. By the way, there will also be eight of them. What answers should a fortuneteller contain? And this is already prompted by fantasy. If you don’t know how to make an origami fortune teller and how to arrange it, you can use some tips and tricks.
The answers
For example, the answers may be:
- Yes.
- Not.
- May be.
- Soon.
- Not soon.
- Unlikely.
- Depends on you.
- Guess later.
You can even write more detailed answers, because playing this way will be much more interesting. There are a lot of options for filling the toy. So, the answers for students may be:
- You will learn well.
- Coming soon.
- They will call you to the board - get ready!
- You’ll be late for school.
- Quarrel with a friend / girlfriend.
- Check the textbooks in the school bag.
- Tips won't help - do better!
- Get the top five.
Or such:
- Quarrel with family.
- Invite to the holiday.
- Clean up your room.
- Your dream will come true.
- Do not sit at the computer for long.
- Everything will be fine!
- Spend time with your friends.
- You will receive a gift or surprise.
An origami fortune teller may contain these answers for people of any age:
- The day will be a success.
- From today you can start a new life.
- It will rain - do not forget to take an umbrella.
- If possible, stay home today.
- Rely only on yourself.
- All conceived will come true.
- The day will bring a lot of joy and laughter.
- Possible troubles.
How to guess
Predicting the future with such a toy is extremely simple. A person who wants to know the answer to his question should give a number from one to eight. An origami fortune teller helps you know the future.
A person opens the device horizontally and vertically as many times as he was told. On the edges of the toy you can read the answer to the question.
Interesting fact
Initially, the origami fortuneteller was not used as fun, but for everyday use. Salt was poured into the inverted product, small sweets or eggs were put. Who and when decided to change the original purpose of the fortuneteller is unknown. But the fact remains: today this fun is loved and very popular among young children and schoolchildren. Even adults can play a fun game, for example, at a party dedicated to some event. Of course, a solid person is unlikely to ask questions and get answers to them with the help of a fortuneteller, but you can play in such a way forfeits. Only in this case a paper toy will serve as their replacement , inside of which tasks for the players will be written. Now you know what an origami fortuneteller is, how to do it right.