Cootie catcher template
Pick a colour, pick a number — and read your fortune.
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Example
Getting-to-know-you cootie catchers for the first week of school, two to a sheet
A third-grade teacher wants a catcher for every child to play in pairs. Settings: Inside “Questions”, the four outside squares typed as Purple, Orange, Pink and Blue, Colours “Colour”, Per page “2”, Text set 1, Paper “US Letter”.
- Page 1 holds two squares of 124 mm (4.9 in) each; with two per page the folding steps move to page 2, so 12 copies of page 1 make 24 catchers.
- Each outside word that names a colour paints its own square: Purple, Orange, Pink and Blue print in those colours. A word that is not a colour, a team name say, gets a colour of its own.
- The theme has 16 questions and the two catchers on a sheet get eight each, so partners ask different ones. Text set 2 deals them out again in another order.
- To play: pick Purple, six letters, so six opens and closes; pick a number, count, then lift that number’s flap and ask the question under it.
| Flap | Catcher 1 | Catcher 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What makes you laugh the most? | What is your favourite song? |
| 2 | What is your favourite season? | What is your happiest memory? |
| 3 | Who is your hero? | What is your favourite animal? |
| 4 | What would you do with a magic wand? | What is your favourite food? |
| 5 | Where would you like to travel? | Which book or film do you love? |
| 6 | What is your favourite game? | What is the best present you have ever had? |
| 7 | Which superpower would you like? | What do you want to be when you grow up? |
| 8 | If you were an animal, which one would you be? | What would you name a pet dragon? |
A Letter PDF with two coloured catchers on page 1, all 16 questions between them, and the six folding steps on page 2. For one big catcher a page, a 175 mm (6.9 in) square on Letter, choose Per page “1”: the steps then print under it.
How it works
- Choose fortunes, dares, questions or blank — or type your own eight texts.
- Keep the four colours outside or type other words.
- Print, cut out the square and fold it along the steps on the sheet.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I fold a cootie catcher?
- Fold the square corner to corner both ways, fold all four corners to the middle, turn it over, fold the four new corners to the middle again, fold it in half and push your thumbs and fingers into the pockets. The steps are printed on the sheet.
- How do you play?
- Someone picks a colour; you spell it out, opening and closing the catcher with each letter. They pick a number, you open and close that many times, then they pick a number inside and you lift the flap to read the fortune.
- Are the texts suitable for children?
- Yes — the fortunes are friendly, the dares harmless and silly, the questions for getting to know each other. Change the text set for other ones, or type your own.
- Can I write my own?
- Yes. Type up to eight lines in your own texts and they go under flaps 1 to 8, in order; with two per page, type up to 16 and lines 9 to 16 go on the second catcher. Fewer than eight are filled up from the chosen theme, or left as lines to write on with Blank. Or print it blank and write by hand.
- How big is the printed cootie catcher?
- One per page, the square is 175 mm (6.9 in) on US Letter and 190 mm (7.5 in) on A4, with the folding steps underneath. Two per page, it is 124 mm (4.9 in) on Letter and 132 mm (5.2 in) on A4, and the steps go on a second page.
- Can I print it in black and white?
- Yes: choose Colours → “Outlines to colour”. The squares and flaps are left white, the four outside words print as outlined letters and the numbers in rings, ready to colour in before folding.
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. The sheet is made in your browser.