Fortune Cookie Handout

Abby HargreavesHead RA of New Student Programming

Hollins University

The Plan

This year I made roughly 150 paper fortune cookies and handed them out to all of the new students on campus.

The Materials

• Scrapbooking or origami paper• Printer paper with fortune-cookie-sized notes

(Mine said, “You will have a great first semester at Hollins! Your lucky numbers are 2, 0, 1, 6)

• Glue (preferably glue sticks)

The Process

• There are multiple tutorials available online. I used this one: http://hamblyscreenprints.typepad.com/screen_prints_blog/2010/02/paper-fortune-cookie-tutorial.html

• You probably won’t get the first few perfect, but keep trying – once you get the hang of it it’s quick and easy!

The Result

Good luck!

Suggestions from the EditorThis program could be adapted into a bulletin boards, door tags,

or educational programs in several ways: • Create a welcome board and put the fortune cookies with

positive quotes along the border. Ask each person to take one at the end of a hall meeting. Put another paper fortune cookie with their name on it on their door with as their door tag.

• Make a bulletin board with a big fortune cookie in the center and inspiring quotes coming out of it. Use the paper fortune cookies with each person’sname on it to decorate the board and resident’s doors

• You could also put information about a certain educational topics in the paper fortune cookies to turn socials into fun educational programs