Cooking Man has never loved to eat fortune cookies, but he loves the fortunes. For the last several meals out, he has received uninspiring fortunes, so I decided to make him a fortune cookie with a special message. I didn’t want to bake them, I wanted to make them out of paper.
Folding instructions for paper fortune cookies
To see how to fold the cookie, I looked up a recipe for baking fortune cookies, and adapted it for paper.
It’s not hard, but because it involves that mystery–spatial relationships–I drew a diagram.
Start by choosing a paper in a color close to fortune cookies. A paper bag will work, although I used a double-sided mulberry paper.
Cut a circle about 3 inches in diameter. Fold in half, top to bottom. Crease.
Cut a narrow piece of double sided tape about an inch long. Place it along the fold line, in the center of the circle.
Now pinch the paper so the short ends of the tape stick to each other. Keep
Paper fortune cookies, ready to give.
holding the pinch with your non-dominant hand, transferring it if you have to. Using your fingers of your dominant hand, push out the sides, joining the flat sides of the circle.
Let go the pinching hand, and create the fortune. Place it in the cookie. Three drops of glue along the top of the cookie will hold it in shape. No baking necessary. Happy Father’s Day!
–Quinn McDonald is a writer and the author of Raw Art Journaling, about to be shipped, probably before July 20, 2011.
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You are so creative!! I never would have thought of a way to do this without baking the cookies!!
For me, looking up how cooks do something and adapting it for paper is the REAL mixed media!
Hey no wonder he doesn’t like eating fortune cookies. Wasn’t he saying something about “…tasting like paper…”
Or “eating my words.”
I agree, great idea! Thank you, blessings, Olivia
What a fun idea! Thanks for sharing…I am definitely going to have to try this. And it makes a sweet gift!
They are fun to make–and easy. You can use them as small gifts, cute reminders, even party favors. If you leave the message partially exposed, they can even be place holders. While I made them for Fathers Day, they would be cute at a wedding–to write a wish for the bride and groom, or at a birthday party.
Making them into place holders is a great idea! Thank you for the additional possibilities!
They are really versatile–you can add gold touches, perch them on the edge of a glass, or make the fortune the main piece and use instead of a bow on a present.