FORTUNE FACES CRAFT
This craft is an origami fortune teller and a puppet. Print and cut out the square pattern and follow the instructions to fold the puppet. Decorate the puppet using light pencil lines. Then unfold and color the face. Refold the puppet and use it to tell someone’s fortune. Or…just use it as a puppet.
New Year’s Eve is a time to hope for good luck in the coming year. People have customs to bring good fortune in the new year. The Irish put a sprig of mistletoe under their pillow on New Years eve to help them dream of their future love. In Spain, they eat 12 grapes (one for each month of the year) at midnight. Some people eat ring-shaped foods to insure a circle of good luck. Kissing at midnight is thought to bring good fortune to a relationship.
FUN FACTS ABOUT FORTUNE TELLING
The word “fortune” comes from the ancient Roman goddess, Fortuna, the goddess of destiny.
Fortune telling is predicting what will happen in the future.
There is no scientific evidence that anyone can really tell the future.
There are many fortune-telling methods:
Astrology is looking to the stars and their positions in the sky to predict future advents.
Palmistry is predicting a person’s future by reading the lines on their palm.
Tasseography is tea leaf reading. The fortune teller looks at the pattens of the tea leaves left in the bottom of a cup after the person drinks the tea.
Some fortune tellers look into a crystal ball to “see” the future.
There’s also numerology. The fortune teller uses your birthdate and the letters in your name to predict the future.
Nostradamus was a famous French astrologer whose book of prophecies is still studied today.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!