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Cootie Catcher
or Fortune Teller
– to complete by
hand
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Entering text into the template (slide one)
– Triple-click (click 3 times quickly) in each area and type your information
If you wish, you can print the “empty” template (slide two) and have students
handwrite or draw their information
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The Flaps (labeled A, B, C, and D) are the outermost choices… these are
often color words – remember you can change this text to color if you will be
printing in color.
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The Options (labeled 1 – 8) are the second choices and these are often
numerals or number words.
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The Fortunes (labeled Fortune1 – Fortune8) are where you type your
SHORT messages. (You can adjust the font size if you need to fit more.)
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Use slide one to enter in your options (see slides 3-5 for examples)
Print your Fortune Teller.
Cut out the Fortune Teller along the outside line (6 or 8 inch square)
With the printed side up, fold the square in half horizontally and then
vertically, open the folds.
Turn the square over.
Fold each corner over so they meet in the middle, do not let them overlap.
Leave the square folded, and flip the square over.
Now fold the corners into the center – make sure they do not overlap.
Fold the entire square in half and poke your thumbs and forefingers in under
the flaps.
Bring your fingers together so the Fortune Teller forms a peak –
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Put an action where the fortunes are usually written and use it as a PE activity
generator (children might select a flap and get an activity like “run in place” or “hop on
one foot”)
For Language Arts, use words and have students open and close it the number of
syllables in the word or spell the word rather than using numbers.
For math put simple math facts instead of numbers – so “5+3” could be on a flap,
“6+1” on another flap and students open and close the “catcher” according to the
solution to the math fact selected.
For reading and writing, students create the fortunes and must write them concisely to
fit in the space allotted. Students must read aloud the fortunes for all to hear.
For any subject, 8 facts or factoids can be written in the place of fortunes, or
questions with their answers can be written there as well.
For writing, students could have a different “catcher” for selecting a character (with a
wide collection of characters, one under each flap), another for selecting a setting or a
predicament and then write or draw the story using these characters, settings or
predicaments.
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(books and websites)
Cootie Catchers are also called:
“Fortune Tellers”, “Nose Pinchers”, “Salt Cellars” and “Chatterboxes”
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Some related resources about "Cootie Catchers" are:
Arthur and The Cootie Catcher (a book by Marc Brown) (reading level third
grade)
The Cootie Catcher Book, by Klutz (a collection of “catchers”)
http://aperfecttime.com/Cootie.Directions.pdf (step-by-step from a piece of
paper, includes a mention of history of this "flexagon")
http://www.funorama.com/cooties.html (Why they are called "Cootie
Catchers" is explained here.)
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~as0bgr/moscow.html (background, animated
gifs and international versions - for adults)
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Ready-made Online “Catchers” and
Patterns
Ready-made “Catchers” and Patterns:
http://www.cityofmesa.org/police/kids/pdf/be_alert_catcher.pdf a safety-themed
“catcher” to print
http://www.tammyyee.com/origamidragon.html (cool ready-to-print dragon pattern)
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/halowen/CootieCatcher.html (Halloween
themed “catcher”)
http://pbskids.org/arthur/print/cootiecatcher/index.html (Arthur-themed “catcher”)
http://www.thetoymaker.com/Toypages/16Cootiecatcher/16COOTIECATCHER.html
(Valentine themed pattern)
for older students http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/st6starfinder/st6starfinder.shtml (night sky and
constellations in a "cootie catcher")
http://www.yourpage.org/hanfortune.html (Hanukkah "fortune teller" with holidayrelated content)
http://dev.sandiegozoo.org/kids/images/craft_cootie_catcher.pdf (conservation riddles
on this “catcher”)
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