Fortune-teller-origami is a toy from childhood. How to make an origami fortune-teller

Many of us want to know what will happen to us in a day, a week, a month, a year, read the thoughts of other people. So it was and always will be, because the desire to open the veil of the secrets of the future is inherent in almost every person. And what if we recall carefree school years and make a fortuneteller-origami?

This toy is a folded in a certain way a sheet of ordinary or colored paper, which has various answers to various questions. Such a fortune-teller is put on fingers, and thus they receive answers to all their questions: "how do I pass the exam?", "Do I like N?", "Does he love me?". So let's make this toy together with our children and play this fun 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 production?

You can make a fortune-teller a fortune in minutes. For work we need:

• A sheet of white paper;
• Scissors or paper cutter;
• Pen, colored pencils or markers.

Take a sheet of paper (you can take a color) in A4 format (21x28 centimeters). If you do not have one at hand, do not worry, because in this case any other 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 for us (it just does not get on your fingers).

Detailed instructions for manufacturing

So, you are stocked with everything necessary for work and now you can start working on making origami from paper.

A fortune teller will come out if you follow such advice:

1. First of all, put a piece of paper on the table, then take the left corner and lift it up. As a result, you should get a right-angled triangle.
2. Now take his lower corner and connect with his left end point of the base. The result is a triangle.
3. If you used a sheet of A4 paper as the source material, you will have an extra rectangle at the top when folding, which should be carefully cut with scissors or a clerical knife. In the end, you can just tear it away.
4. Expand the resulting square.
5. As a result of folding the square, you have two fold lines with a common point of intersection. Now add all the corners of the square to its center. You should have a smaller square.
6. Place the sheet on the wrong side and fold the square again in the same way as in step 5.
7. Now bend the figure in half, straighten, then rotate 90 degrees and fold again, straighten again.
8. Put the fortune-teller the other side to yourself and carefully open the corners of the small squares. The toy will easily start to fold according to the resulting folds. The corners will begin to open, forming a kind of pockets for the fingers.

Our fortuneteller-origami is almost ready, it remains only to fill it with the necessary information to make it work.

Decoration of toys

First, paint the outer pockets with colored pencils. And on the inner part 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 be eight of them, too. What answers should the fortuneteller have? And this is already a fantasy. If you do not know how to make an origami fortune-teller and how to arrange it, you can use some tips and recommendations.

Answers

For example, the answers can be:

1. Yes.
2. No.
3. May be.
4. Soon.
5. Not soon.
6. It is unlikely.
7. Depends on you.
8. Make a guess later.

You can even write more detailed answers, because it will be much more interesting to play. There are a lot of options for filling a toy. So, the answers for students can be:

• You will learn well.
• Soon the control.
• You will be summoned to the board - prepare!
• You'll be late for school.
• You'll quarrel with a friend.
• Check the textbooks in the school bag.
• Hints do not help - do it better!
• You'll get the five.

Or these:

1. You'll quarrel with relatives.
2. Invite to the party.
3. Make order in your room.
4. Your dream will come true.
5. Do not sit at the computer for a long time.
6. Everything will be fine!
7. Spend time with your friends.
8. You will receive a gift or a surprise.

The fortune-teller-origami can contain such answers for people of any age:

• The day will be successful.
• 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 the plans will come true.
• The day will bring a lot of joy and laughter.
• There may be trouble.

How to guess?

Predicting the future with the help of such a toy is extremely simple. A person who wants to know the answer to his question should call a number from one to eight. The fortuneteller-origami will help you to know the future.

The person opens the device horizontally and vertically as many times as he was told. On the sides of the toy it will be possible to read the answer to the question posed.

Interesting fact

Initially, the fortuneteller-origami was used not as fun, but for use in everyday life. Inverted product is filled with salt, put small sweets or eggs. Who and when decided to change the original purpose of fortune-teller - is unknown. But the fact remains: for today this amusement is favorite and very popular among young children and schoolchildren. Play an entertaining game can even adults, for example, at a party dedicated to some event. Of course, to ask questions and get answers to them with the help of a fortune-teller solid person is unlikely to become, but you can play in this way in the forfeits. Only in this case they will be replaced by a toy made of paper, inside of which tasks for players will be written. Now you know what an origami-fortune-teller is, how to do it right.