First grade for me but I can't remember if the Fortune Teller or the
Water Bomb came first.
Both were popular with boys and girls.
My family is from Eastern Europe but I was born and grew up in Berkeley,
California.
In first grade, Japanese American children who had been born in the
You may not be familiar with Bennett Arnstein and my Spike Ball family of
modular
origami modules but if you are interested in the fortune teller shape, you may
want
to look at them. The models are based on different polyhedral and look like
fortune
tellers glued together, although the modules
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> Can you please help me with a second question regarding fortune tellers: to
> your knowledge, around what grade and age are fortune tellers particularly
> popular among kids?
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Oh gosh - that was SO LONG AGO ;-)
I think, as someone mentioned before, that it was mostly the girls that
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> As a child, were you taught to color the outer flaps and add numbers
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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
