How to Fold an Origami Fortune Teller
Medium level, 14 steps. Traditional. Earliest record: a Froebel kindergarten manual (Jacobs), 1859.
The animated version shows each fold moving, one step per screen. This page shows every step at once.
All 14 steps
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Step 1. Fold in half corner to corner, then unfold.
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Step 2. Fold in half along the other diagonal, then unfold.
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Step 3. Fold the top left corner to the center.
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Step 4. Fold the top right corner to the center.
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Step 5. Fold the bottom right corner to the center.
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Step 6. Fold the bottom left corner to the center.
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Step 7. Turn the paper over.
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Step 8. Fold the top corner to the center.
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Step 9. Fold the next corner to the center.
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Step 10. Fold the next corner to the center.
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Step 11. Fold the last corner to the center.
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Step 12. Fold in half, top edge down to bottom edge, then unfold.
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Step 13. Fold in half, left edge over to right edge, then unfold.
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Step 14. Slide your thumbs and first fingers under the four square flaps on the back and push the four corners up and together.
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Done. Move your fingers apart and together to open it one way, then the other.