Blooming Lotus | English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2014-11-22

This blooming lotus looks very pretty in the dark. You will love the play of shadows and light. For making this model you will require a total of 12 strips of paper 30-cm long and 1-cm wide. 6 strips should be of magenta color, the other 6 should be green. Fold all the strips in the middle. Stick two magenta strips like a plus-sign. Then stick two more to the vertical strip and then upturn the model. Then glue two more horizontally. Now you will have a plus sign with 3 standing and 3 lying strips. 
Then make a similar plus sign using 6 green sticks and glue it at 45-degrees to the magenta plus sign. Once again upturn the model. Apply a dab of glue on all the top of all four right side magenta strips. Then take two adjoining magenta strips and stick them to make a loop. Make four such magenta loops or petals. Place the middle green strips on top of these four petals and then glue them to the loops. 

Once again make four petals with the green strips. Then lift the middle magenta petals on top of these green loops and stick them. This will complete this symmetric model. This beautiful model will look like a lotus flower. But its real beauty will be revealed if you wait for the night and place a lighted lamp in this center. Then the lotus will appear exquisite and you enjoy the patterns of light and dark. This work was supported by IUCAA and Tata Trust. This film was made by Ashok Rupner TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org