How to Make a Fake Fortune Cookie out of Paper
As the debate continues over the validity of fortunes received from Chinese fortune cookies, you'll have the inside scoop with these fake fortune cookies. Customize fortune cookies with personalized messages to use as invitations to your next birthday party. For a wedding proposal she'll never forget, pop the question with a paper fortune cookie. You can also use over-sized paper fortune cookies as advertisements by including your contact information on the paper messages. Display the cookie advertisements in clean Chinese take-out boxes wherever you advertise, such as on receptionists’ desks, restaurant tables or in restrooms.
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Things You'll Need
- Beige stationery paper
- Compass with pencil
- Scissors
- Pencil eraser
- Double-sided tape
Instructions
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Draw a 6-inch circle on a sheet of beige-colored stationery paper. Use a compass with a pencil attachment to lightly draw a symmetrical circle. Cut out the circle. Remove any pencil marks from the perimeter of the circle using an eraser.
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Bend the circle in half across the center; don’t press a crease along the fold. Hold the paper in the center of the rounded edge. Bend the two corners, which are the only angles of the semicircle, so that they meet on the opposite side of the rounded edge. Allow a crease to form horizontally across the middle of the circle between the corners.
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Let go of the corners of the paper so the paper returns to the semicircle shape. Cut a 3-inch strip of double-sided tape. Place the tape lengthwise across the outside of the straight edge of the semicircle so it crosses with the crease. Bend the corners of the semicircle again so the tape sticks to itself to hold the fortune cookie shape.
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Cut a one-quarter-by-3-inch strip from the remaining beige stationery. Write a message for the fortune on one side of the strip. Add a list of five random numbers to the other side of the paper for the recipient’s lucky numbers, if desired. Slip the paper inside the fortune cookie so it is concealed.
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