Xerox or scan and shrink their sayings and cut them into strips. Enclose them in real fortune cookies that you cook up in class using this simple recipe . Explore the many different variations. Use several fonts in different sizes and styles to create a letter design. Try overlapping the letters and turning them different directions.
Students can even make designs from entire words.
Use different colors and levels of transparency. Ask a foreign language teacher to visit your class to share idioms and their English equivalents. Research the origins of interesting slang terms and sayings.