DLTK's Sites for Kids
Our print version allows you to print the page in a more traditional font with fewer colors and fewer images.
Use the "PRINT" link to print only the content in the white space below:

 

DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Spring Fortune Teller

I'm sure we've all made these at some point in time (it used to be a sleepover favorite).  Kaitlyn, my 13 year old, still loves to make them though she makes them up herself instead of using templates.  Younger children or kids who are new to the idea will appreciate the template to walk them through how fortune tellers work.

Kaitlyn does them with riddles on the inside (Question on the second layer, Answer on the third layer), with "future boyfriend" questions and with "future career" questions.  It seems that every time she makes one, she comes up with something different to write on them!  They're a great sleepover party activity.

These are very simple to make, but if you have trouble with the instructions, try reading through the basic origami instructions.

Materials:

Spring Origami Fortune Teller

Instructions:

 

  • Fold paper from corner to corner, making a triangle.
craft instructions

  • Fold the triangle from corner to corner, making a smaller triangle.
craft instructions

  • Unfold everything -- you'll have a square of paper with an X crease.
craft instructions

  • Fold the corner to the center of the square (where the X crosses)
craft instructions

  • Repeat with the other three corners.
craft instructions

  • And you end up with a smaller square!
craft instructions

  • Flip your paper over -- you'll still see creases from your first two steps             craft instructions

  • Fold the corner to the center of the square (where the X crosses)
craft instructions

  • Repeat with the other three corners and you'll end up with an even smaller square
craft instructions

  • Fold and unfold the bottom edge of the square up to the top
craft instructions

  • Fold and unfold the left edge of the square over to the right
craft instructions

  • so that the creases look like an astrix across your small square
craft instructions

  • This bit is easier to do than it is to explain -- basically, you want to push the four corners of the square together in the center and then slide 4 fingers into the flaps of your fortune teller, creasing the folds back so your fingers fit in nicely.  You'll be able to move the flaps with your fingers like little puppets.
craft instructions

  • At this point, carefully print 4 things on the outside flaps (the standard are blue, red, green and yellow).  Print 8 things on the inside flaps (the standard are the numbers 1 thru 8).  And print 8 things underneath the inside flaps -- the standard are "fortunes" like:
    • You'll be rich
    • You'll be famous
    • You'll fall in love
    • You'll be happy
spring fortune teller

  • To play the standard version, Kaitlyn will
      
    • ask your favorite color and then flap the fortune teller open one way, then the other spelling out the color (ex:  B  L  U  E)
    • ask your favorite number or how many children (boyfriends) you'll have and then count out the number, again flapping the fortune teller back and forth
    • then ask your lucky number, lift that flap and read the person's fortune.

Templates:

 

Fortune Teller Template   (color)   or   (B&W)