You’d make them out of paper, kind of a mouth thing with four quadrants. You manipulate it from underneath; opening it and closing it a certain number of times, and then do what was written on the open quadrant.
Does that make sense? Anyone know what these are called?
It’s a cootie catcher.
I made hundreds of these when I was a kid!
We didn’t call them that. It was something about wishes.
Fortunetellers, New York.
yup, in WI they were cootie catchers.
Fortunetellers, Philadelphia.
We had them in West Texas, but I can’t for the life of me think what they were called. None of the names in the link sounds familiar. We may not have called them anything.
Cootie Catchers, New Jersey.
Huh…sounds like a quaint shore town…
South Park had a whole episode about it, actually.
Wikpedia calls them Paper Fortune tellers, cootie catcher, salt cellar, chatterbox, or whirlybird.
Cootie catcher, MI.
Cootie catcher, Los Angeles.
Fortune tellers, when growing up in Boston in the 80s.
Indiana- 80s, we called it a fortune teller. We made them to predict who we were gonna marry.
I think we called them fortune tellers–Illinois, 1980s. I never heard the term “cootie catcher” until very recently.
Fortune tellers, Chicago north suburbs. They weren’t very accurate.
Yip, fortune tellers, northwest Arkansas. In fact, I don’t get the “cootie catcher” name.
As seen on the opening of Community. (which I find odd since those remind me more of elementary/middle school than college, but anyway…)
I don’t recall ever hearing “cootie catcher” before; Chicago area, late '60s/early '70s. “Fortune tellers” sounds right, but I have trouble remembering last week, so take that for what it’s worth.
Cootie Catchers, Boston, 1960’s.
Fortune teller, southern England.
I was the one who started the craze in my school after finding the plans in my origami book - at least, that’s what it felt like to me. My teachers probably thought, “Oh crap, fortune tellers are back again.”
Fortune tellers, Chicago SW side. Never heard of “cootie catcher” until this thread.