What were these childhood paper creations called, and how do you make them?

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Another vote for fortune tellers, at least in Montana in the '80s. All the flaps had fortunes under them, no bugs. Never heard of “cootie catchers.”

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We used to make hexaflexagons.

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I never called them anything, but I really like hexaflexagon.

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We called them ‘cootie catchers’, but used them for telling fortunes. Ours used both numbers and colors.

I think the age gap vs. object name thing is interesting. I’m 42 and grew up in KCMO.

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I think ours had a number, then a color, then a boy’s name.

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Cootie catchers. Grew up in Baltimore, MD, born in 1954.

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Red Lobster used to have a children’s menu/placemat thingy that folded into one of these; I believe it had a fish print on it, so that it looked like you were opening and closing the fish’s mouth.

I only saw handmade ones a few times in school. I don’t know what they were called though.

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cootie catcher/fortune teller instructions:

http://www.dltk-kids.com/WORLD/japan/mfortune-teller.htm

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Would you guys believe my boss actually instructed me to find them and make one? Now I have just made one, yay!

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We called them fortune tellers. There was also something we made out of paper where you could create a pretty loud pop by flicking your wrist.

That’s what she said:D

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Hey, I remember those! We called them “heaven and hell”, because one side would be colored red with a bad fortune on it, the other one was blue with a good fortune.

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Paper Popper instructions

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We called them chatterboxes.

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Paper Popper instructions You had an extra http or something in your link, this should work now.

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Well, we have those in Singapore too. I remember seeing it when I was much younger.

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Yeah, cootie catchers! We used to make 'em back in the 50s.

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And that’s the first time I’ve heard them mentioned in about 36 years. :cool:

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Hmm, I’ve seen 'em, but neither “fortune teller”, “cootie catcher” (I almost just typed “cootchie catcher”), or “chatterbox” rings a bell. Maybe because I never heard it called anything.

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That’s what we called them over here (Germany), too. Well, of course we called them that in German. I never got what the fuss was all about, frankly – it was just one of those weird things girls did.