Introduction: Creating a Cootie Catcher - for All Ages

When I was a child, me and my friends used to create Cootie Catcher every day at school, and We would write things like - where we will live when we grow up, how many children we will have, what kide of animal we will have, etc.

In this instructable I'm going to share my way of creating a cootie catcher, and adding a way to make it useful to adults.

Supplies

-       White sheet 

-       Scissors

-       Pen

-       8 markers in different colors

Step 1: Creating a Square Shape From the White Sheet

  • Take your sheet and fold it across diagonally lining up the two sides (picture attached)
  • Mark the line where the triangle was created
  • Cut the sheet with the scissors were the line is
  • Now you have white sheet in the shape of a square (picture attached)

Step 2: First Folding

  • Take the corner adjacent to the corner you took in the first step and fold it across diagonally
  • Now you have two lines that divide the square into 4 equal triangles (picture attached)
  • Take one corner and fold to the meeting point of the two lines - repeat for each corner (picture attached)

Step 3: Second Folding

  • Flip over the paper you created (picture attached)
  • Take one corner and fold to the center of the paper - repeat for each corner (picture attached)

Step 4: Writing

  • Fold Out one triangle, Making it look like the picture below
  • Write what ever you want under that triangle (picture attached)
  • Repeat for each triangle

like I said in the introduction, I changed the game to be suitable for adults.

I will use the cootie catcher to help me in making decisions, and you can also, her are some examples to things I am using - what to eat for dinner, where to go on a date with my partner, when to exercise , Which restaurant to go to with a friend - and basically in any dilemma I have and need help in making a decision

You can use the one of my example, or you can use it for any decision making problem you have - write in each triangle one decision option. If you don't have 8 options - you can color only some of the triangles and not color the unwritten triangles - and that way you will know not to choose them during the game

Step 5: Coloring

  • Flip over the paper – you need to look at the side with the 8 triangles (picture attached)
  • Color each triangle in one of the colors you chose in the first step (picture attached)

Step 6: Creating the Shape

  • Fold the square in half (picture attached)
  • Slide you fingers under all four flaps using both your thumbs and pointing finger (picture attached)
  • Pinch pointer finger and thumb together and push them towards the center (picture attached)

Step 7: Playing and Having Fun

You can play alone (but may remember what you wrote and them the game wont be that good), or you can play it with a fried.

  • Tell you friend (or you) to choose a number from 1 to 20
  • Move your fingers and open the cootie catcher for one side and then the other – repeat as many time as the number you selected before (picture attached)
  • When arrived to the number, your friend (or you) has to choose one color of the four possible colors (picture attached)
  • Open the selected color and read what is written (picture attached)