RAK day - Chatterboxes with Gelli Arts® by Birgit Koopsen
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- In this video, Gelli® Artist Birgit Koopsen crafts her own chatterboxes with uplifting messages-perfect for spreading kindness this Saturday on #RandomActsOfKindnessDay! 💖 Fold them, leave them in unexpected spots like buses, trains, grocery carts, waiting rooms, or tables at cafes.
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I've found and watched this well past RAK Day, but I'm inspired to gel print some cootie catchers, as we called them when I was young. We didn't fold the tails in, and we numbered and painted the various flaps and asked questions about numbers and colors to determine our subject's message. Mine will be all positive messages too! Thanks so much for this great idea. :)
What a briliant idea, these little treasures will make the day of random people!!! The world needs more of this handmade kindness!😍
OMGosh... I remember these from when I was in grade school... years ago. So much fun. And as @rtd1791 said below, they weren't nearly so colorful and meaningful. When we made them, they didn't include "cooties" though, just words as I recall.
I can see this brightening somebody's awful day. They could be left on a table at a Coffee Shop, on a Teacher's desk, on a table I'm a Break Room... anywhere. Maybe include a "How To Use" sheet. Thank you for sharing a wonderful memory (and maybe a new beginning).
Great RAOfK treasure to find. I plan on leaving some along woodland trails.
That it what we all made as children and write underneath ❤❤❤❤we used to ask how many goes if you chose 3 you flicked it 3 times then read what was underneath best I’ve seen for ages 🎉
i will have to try this may i ask what kind of paper are you using
I played with these as a child, only where I lived they were called “cootie catchers” and they weren’t nearly so colorful. There were usually numbers on the outside and letters on the inside flaps with a variety of message types underneath the flaps. One kid worked the catcher and another made selections. You ended up with a sweet/funny message or caught a “cootie”.
Cootie is slang for a body louse. But kids used to pretend that socially undesirable children had germs you could catch. It was also just a game with the catchers or in a game of tag, the chaser had cooties that were given to the kids the chaser tagged. Cootie was also used in the typical boys vs girls stuff that goes on at young ages. Girls used to say that boys had “cooties” and therefore were not to be played with.
While having lice is unpleasant, during WWI the louse was credited with saving the lives of soldiers in trenches. They would bend over to deal with lice and miss being shot. Not so unfortunate in this way.
I’m not sure an American would know what to do with this form though. Maybe it is cultural? In the US it certainly is regional. Southerners and people from the Eastern US have told me they didn’t play with cootie catchers. But maybe they called them by another name. I grew up in the West.
You could gel print flexible paper and fold any origami shape and leave those about for a RAK though.
Out of curiosity, I did a CZcams search and at least some Americans call this origami toy a “fortune teller”. Same format though. Four choices on the outside squares, eight choices on the inside triangles and eight “fortunes” under the flaps.
I’m curious to hear from people who grew up in other countries. Did you play with these as a child? What did you call them?
Soy de Argentina y también hacíamos este origami de niña ( en los 70) para jugar en la escuela😊
I’m in the New England area and we called them fortune tellers as well.
@@lauriebarnes7122 gracias por responder! Que tengas un lindo día!🤗
@@rtd1791 Yes, we played with them as a child... not positive what we called them, but I think Fortune Teller is correct, because they held a positive message or a word as I recall. It's been many years, but I remember them being fun and enjoyable.