These things from our childhood - what on earth were they called?

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Do you remember getting a square of paper, folding it into 8ths(?) Folding it back into itself to make a device you can hold and flick it back and forth.
You'd ask your friend to choose a number from the top, then you'd flip the thing that amount of times, and you end up getting an instruction or something at the end.

I'm "teaching" (it's just an after school club as a volunteer don't worry nothing official) some children how to make these in the club, but can't find anything online to help out with ideas as I've no idea of the search term !!

We called them quackers, OP, at school in west London.

They were called snap dragons when I was at school (a long, long time ago). You had to chant "snap dragon fortune teller, snap dragon fortune teller" while using them. We all believed they were a bit magical and spooky.

I also loved these when I was at school.
My son (8)went through a stage of making these at school earlier this year, he called them chatterbox.
I had no idea what he meant till he showed me

A "quackie", or a "who do you love".

Who do you love wasn't always an apt name when you opened up the last one and it said "you stink" or suchlike 😂

I have never heard of the names pp called it....fortune teller etc.

We called them fortune tellers. They are called cootie catchers in the US, you might have better luck using that to search for?

They didn't have a name when I was a child or when the children made them.

sometimes they were dares or challenges, so 'Fortune Tellers' seems an
odd name.

they're so simple to make though

square of paper
fold corners into the centre
turn over
fold corners into the centre

unfold, write on the appropriate sections

refold

Making paper cubes was more fun!!

Chatterbox (East Mids)
Have also heard them called Fortune Tellers as above

Just asked my dp- he says they were called "Annoying things girls made."

Midlands here, they were called 'four pods' in my dim and distant days at school!

I used to make loads of these as a kid in the early 80's. We used to call them paper cruets.

In the SW we called them salt cellars, for whatever reason.

We called them magic squares

I don't remember them having a name (London).

Although lots of playground terms are regional (see fainlights) so that might be true here too, looking at the responses.

Bring back French skipping (or ‘elastics’ we called it)!

Granny put her knickers on
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How?

Salt cellars - I'm in the north west

We called them 'flickers'.

I'm sure we called them snap watchers. But that sounds nonsensical thinking about it now. Surrey.

French skipping got banned at my primary school as far too dangerous. Tripping and elastic flicking your eye out.

Snap watchers or fortune tellers or whatever much safer. Ditto cats cradle.

I called them fortune tellers (London, 1970s)
DD calls them chatterboxes (S/W Yorks, today).

A wif-waf… no idea why.

DC call them chatterboxes, they’re under that or fortune tellers on twinkl.

I love those things! Some year 2 girls in my class a couple of years ago had a phase of making them and I was so happy to see them again.

i remember them also french skipping, and jacks, marbles,

We called them chatterboxes
I've just introduced my 7 year old to skip with the elastic skipping rope. Didn't know it was called french elastic though