TREE OF LIFE | Kashmiri
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 03/11/2015

You can make some very pretty and creative pieces of art using throw away and natural materials. You will need old corrugated boxes, jute twine, glue, sketch pens etc. First remove the top covering of box card board to expose the corrugations. Draw leaves on this corrugated board and cut them with the scissors. Cut the leaves along the midrib into two halves. Then interchange the half leaves. This way you will get a very pretty venation pattern. 
On a card sheet draw the outline of a tree – the trunk with branches. Apply glue along the outline and let it dry. Make a circle out of twine and stick it in the middle of the trunk. Stick more twine along the trunk and the branches. Then apply glue to the underside of the leaves and stick them near the branches to make the umbrella like crown of the tree. In this glorious tree you place a twine nest and then fold some colorful birds from old magazine paper and stick them on the tree. This will complete the TREE OF LIFE.  

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, Satyen Khashu, Grande namaste 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