So what do you call those things?

[Rojo]

From grade school, anyone remember those folded paper things girls made (usually girls) that they'd hold with their fingers and open like a mouth. You'd pick a number and they'd do the mouth thingee and then reach in to open a flap to reveal who you were going to marry or whatever.

They're real hard to describe. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Is there a name for them?

[westofyou]

Fortune tellers

or..cootie catcher, scrunchie, chatterbox

[KronoRed]

Those things were mesmerizing.

[Raisor]

Those things were mesmerizing.

the girls?

[edabbs44]

I believe the appropriate name is "future telling device". At least that's what they call it in Colorado.

[BuckeyeRed27]

Never touched one. They were full of kooties.

[Rojo]

Fortune tellers

or..cootie catcher, scrunchie, chatterbox

Ah, ok. I knew that "fortune teller" would google too much. So I tried "paper fortune teller"

http://www.diyplanner.com/files/fortune_teller_paper.jpg

[Falls City Beer]

Cootie catcher was the proper nomenclature in 70's Ohio/Kentucky

[SunDeck]

Cootie Catcher. Totally.
And they were for girls.

[texasdave]

Remember them? Sure thing. And I still believe I am going to marry Carla Weber and become President of the United States some day.

[reds44]

Cootie catcher in the late 90's/early 00's.

[RollyInRaleigh]

Cootie catcher was the proper nomenclature in 70's Ohio/Kentucky

......and West Virginia.

[GIDP]

Chatterbox

[Unassisted]

Those were Fortune Tellers in my part of 1970s Ohio.

[Chip R]

I honestly can't remember what we called them but none of those sounds familiar.

[westofyou]

I honestly can't remember what we called them but none of those sounds familiar.

yeah, we had em Michigan... but I don't know what we called them, neither does my wife who tramped many a playground on the eastside in the 70's.

[Rojo]

I honestly can't remember what we called them but none of those sounds familiar.

Me too. Fortune teller makes sense but doesn't ring a bell. Cootie catcher sounds vaguely familiar but makes absolutely no sense.

[RichRed]

I never knew what they were called either but it was just one in a long list of things girls did that I didn't understand. Over the years, I've only improved marginally in that respect.