> > > > As a child, were you taught to color the outer flaps and add numbers > inside or to just color the inner flaps? >
We just wrote the name of the color on the outermost flap, numbers on the inside and fortunes down deep ... This fold is what got me started in origami. I was folding one in the library and the librarian saw me. She came over and said "Here is a book you might like," and handed me Robert Harbin's "Secrets of Origami." Couldn't make heads or tails of it until I hit the fortune teller there (I think he called it a salt cellar?) ... the rest is history ;-) I have used fortune tellers in other ways. I helped in the classroom when my kids were smaller and suggested a fortune teller for science ... the kids put colors or something on the outside flaps, planets on the inside and then a fact relating to that planet where the fortune should go. I think the teacher did that later in another class with another subject as well ... Klutz used to make a craft/book with fortune tellers as well - I haven't seen it in a long time, though. Googled it and several others popped up :-) Dee
