Try Our Origami Fortune Tellers
Yeah, I hope you weren’t exactly expecting science. We will leave the data for another post! Today – I thought we could just have some fun. Back when I was in primary school… yeah the dark ages, we used to fold silly fortune tellers to predict our future jobs. Well I have ‘eurovisionified‘ them for you! Simply follow the instructions and you too can make your own!
Step 1: Print These Gorgeous Nets
Alas, we can only fit eight songs per semi, I went with the odds at Eurovisionworld.com. If your favourite in the semi isn’t here – chances are your runner up may well be!
Tip: Struggling to print? Right click on the image and then select “open image in new tab”. Then just print that page!
Step 2: Folding Time
If you have never done one of these before, never fear – it really is rather simple. We even have a handy video to take you through step by step!
- First of all fold and unfold along the dotted axis so you have your lines of symmetry.
- Fold in the four corners to the centre
- Flip the ‘fortune teller’ over
- Fold in the four corners here to the centre
- Push the four new corners together, creating flaps for your thumbs and index fingers
- Congratulations! You can now find out who we have predicted as your winner!
Step 3: How To Play
In order to find out the prediction simply:
- Pick your favourite of the four given colours. For each letter in that colours name open pull at the flaps. (pulling length, width, length, width etc)
- Then repeat with your favourite of the four numbers shown on the fortune teller.
- Finally, pick your favourite of the (potentially new) four numbers shown and lift it’s flap.
- The flag of the country we ‘predict’ to be your winner will be shown!
Step 4: Tell Us About It
So we probably got it wrong… But maybe just maybe, we found your semi-final winner! Either way, the world needs to know! Please feel free to comment here or on social media (we now even have a discord group)! And if you don’t like any of the songs… Repeat in a different language of your choice! Who knows this might be a great way to learn some Italian before we sit down to enjoy the contest!