Remember paper fortune tellers? It’s a basic piece of origami schoolkids have made since who knows when. You put your hand inside and open it one way and then the other, a much more elaborate way to reach a binary result than flipping a coin. I dimly recall one being used to see who you’d end up falling in love with, but more clearly I remember a funnier use.
Instead of alternating on some kind of counting system, you alternate with the pincers down on the top of somebody’s head. One of the results was left blank, the other one had a bunch of weird bugs drawn on it. If you got the bug result, well, you had cooties, son. That’s just science.
Hey, that wikipedia article is fun. Give it a look.
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I clicked the link, got out a piece of origami paper, and made one.
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I do remember it was something of a craze in my small-town elementary/junior high school
(1960s southern Alberta).
We used them for alot of “fortune-telling”. Sometimes just funny, sometimes just mean.
Then we stopped. I don’t remember why, it may have been banned at school.
It was only the girls who played this.
also
when we made them out of standard 8.5 x 11 paper, we made littler ones out of the scrap
until it was no longer possible
i did that too! so fun.
about origami cranes
I made a few using cigarette paper
they were very tiny and cuuuute
annoying do not recommend
i remember seeing rolling papers around the house when i was a kid, my dad used “zigzag” brand, had some kinda pirate on the package. looked cool. hope i’m in the clear on secondhand smoke effects ha.