BOBBING BUTTERFLY | Bengali
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 14/10/2015

The Bobbing Butterfly is an extremely creative toy. To make it you will need two stiff card sheets 9-cm x 7-cm, thread, and sketch pens. Make half cuts in the cards and interlock them so that they open and close like a butterfly. Draw half a butterfly and cut both layers to make a butterfly with antennas.  Upturn and apply tape on the joint so that the two pieces do not come out. Then decorate and color the butterfly. Then make 4 holes as shown – two to the left and two to the right. Weave threads and tape them as shown. Now stand the colorful butterfly and hold the threads in two hands. On gently pulling and releasing the threads the butterfly will flap its wings. This dynamic and endearing toy is also very simple to make. 

This work is supported by IUCAA(www.iucaa.ernet.in) and TATA Trust (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar, Krishnanjan Mandal 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