Fortune Cookie Place Settings

The Project: Large Paper Fortune Cookie Place Settings as well as smaller paper table decoration paper cookies.

The Cost: ~10.00 or maybe less if you already have the paper as we did. We used left over paper from our engagement invites to make these. We got 12x12 black and white paper from Michaels, originally 20.00 with a 50% coupon, got it for the 10$

The Story:
Seeing as how our engagement invites were origiami styled, my fiance and I thought it would be nice to continue that theme and to always create some type of origami something for each event that we do. For the party, I originally wanted to make lotus flower origami and place them on each setting but then when I researched it, it was alot of work! I was looking for something simpler. I then leaned more toward ordering custom fortune cookies from a store when It hit me, DUH! fortune cookies made out of paper! How hard could that be. I went on youtube and looked it up and sure enough, it was so simple! I decided to make them custom on my own by creating individual Love Fortune sayings such as: Live, Love, Laugh...Love is two people looking in the same direction...Love makes the world go round...etc...

First Things First:
1. Decide how you are using them. Place settings? Table Decorations? Both?
2. Decide on your sizes. For place settings, go big! For decoration, vary up your sizes.
3. Pick a color theme or type of paper you would like to use.
4. Be creative! Its your creation so put whatever you want on the fortune itself. It can be a saying, a word, a symbol, a joke, or just their names.
5. Count how many people are coming. If you have 50 guests, youll need 50 settings and 50 sayings if you are not repeating them

What You Will Need:

1. Paper for the cookie
2. Circle cutter or anything circular that you can trace (CD, cup, etc)
3. Krazy Glue! Not any glue will work.
4. Paper for the fortune
5.Computer and Printer
6. Scissors







Step By Step Directions:
1. Start by making your circles. Get as many circles on a paper as possible, so if your largest circle is of CD size and you can fit only 3 big ones but it looks like you could fit 2 smaller circles on it, do that! You can use the other ones as decoration later on.

2. Trace all your circles on all your paper, large medium and small sized then cut them out. (If you have a circle cutter, use that for the smaller decorative ones, its easier than cutting. If you dont want to spend the $ though, just cut away!)

3. Seperate the circles in size order. I did this because it made it easier for me but you can skip this step.

4. Take your circle and begin to fold it evenly onto itself without creasing the middle line. If you crease the middle, it wont fold right.

5. Press your finger into the middle of the bent part to form a slight indent. This will help you when youre folding

6. Place your pointer finger into that fold while at the same time, using your thumb on one side and your middle finger on the other to pull the sides together.

7. The paper will automatcally fold a certain way when you do this, forming the cookie.

8. Sometimes the fold is not perfect and the cookie parts are uneven, if this is the case you can actually tug at the one side and move the paper to where you want it but dont force it if its not working.
9. At this point it probably looks like a pac-man because its not glued yet. Close the cookie to see where the middle touches, this is where you will place the glue.
10. Place the crazy glue onto that area and quickly close the cookie.

11. Press and hold it together for about 10 seconds or until glue adheres. If you let go too soon, itll pop open. This part can take some time.
12. Do this to all your circle, large and small. Place your setting cookies aside though so you know which ones get the fortunes and which do not.

The next part with the fortunes can be done at two seperate points depending on what you want to do. I made my cookies first and then put the fortunes in but you can also choose to put the fortunes in prior to folding the cookie.

*I learned this the hard way, try to pick shorter sayings! If your sayings are too long, they look funny coming out of the cookie*

Fortune cookie sayings

1. Either create your own on the computer or google sayings and copy and paste

2. Either way, put your sayings into a Word Doc., one saying per line! and skip a space for cutting.

3. Change your font and color if you choose. (We did red paper so I had to use black)

4. Load your paper into the printer and print.

5. Cut your sayings out and get ready to put them into the cookies.

6. Slide them into one side of the cookie and then press the ends of the cookie together so it forms kind of a seal that will keep the saying inside.

7. If this doesnt work and the saying keeps slipping out, use some glue on it but not much bc your guests will be taking them out.

8. Sit back and enjoy the coversations that go on over this project and what their sayings actually say. Its funny to see if people think whats written in it applies to their life!

* The ones that will not have sayings in them, you create just the same, just dont put the sayings in them*

Hope you enjoyed this project! It was fun to do and a pleasure to see everyones responses. Let me know how yours come out!

Happy Crafting! Check out my next post for some fun Thank You cards!