Free Printable St. Patrick's Day Cootie Catcher

These printable St. Patrick’s Day Cootie Catcher Joke Tellers are easy to make and a fun way to celebrate this March 17th! Just print, fold, and share the luck of the Irish! This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this site when you make purchases through those links, at no extra cost to you.

Two hands holding a folded paper joke teller / cootie catcher with St. Patrick's Day themed illustrations on the top.

It’s time for another free printable cootie catcher! This time I’m sharing a joke teller perfect for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day loaded up with cute illustrations and silly jokes.

How to Make Your Own St. Patrick’s Day Cootie Catcher Joke Teller

These little joke tellers are are super easy to make! You will just need a few supplies to get started.

St. Patrick’s Day Cootie Catcher Supplies:

Letter Sized Copy Paper
Color Printer (This is the printer I used)
Paper Trimmer or Scissors
My Free Printable (Available at the link at the end of this post)

Step One. Print Joke Teller.

After you get the free printable from the link at the end of this post, you will want to print it out on letter sized white copy paper.

Step Two. Cut Out.

Cut around the outside edges of the joke teller and the envelope. I recommend using a paper trimmer if you have one, but scissors work just fine too!

Step Three. Fold the Cootie Catcher.

Next, it’s time to fold! For images showing how to fold the cootie catcher, check out this post.

Start by folding the cootie catcher in half both vertically and horizontally. Press to score and then unfold. This creates a crease at the center of the square.
Then, with the printed side face down, line up each corner with the creased center point of the square and press to fold.
After all four corners have been folded into the center, flip the cootie catcher over and repeat this process of folding each corner into the center point.
Flip over again, and fold in half so you have two squares on each side. Slip your index finder and thumb into two of the flaps on either side.

Step Five. Tell Some Jokes!

When your cootie catcher is all folded, you are ready for some St. Patrick’s Day jokes! If you haven’t used a fortune/joke teller like this before, it’s super easy!

Here’s how to use your joke teller:

Have a friend choose one of the four illustrations on the top square panels – shamrock, rainbow, lucky, or gold.
Open and close the cootie catcher once for each letter in the word they chose, alternating which side you open with each letter.
Next, have your friend choose one of the visible numbers.
Repeat step two for the number chosen, opening and closing alternating sides of the joke teller for each number they chose.
Again, have your friend choose a number.
Open the flap and read the joke under the chosen number.

That’s it! Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

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