Pecking Bird |  English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2015-04-18

This is a lush green surrounding and you can hear Koels in the background. Let’s make our own Pecking Bird with a square paper. Take a square with an edge of 12-cm. First fold along the diagonal. Open the paper and then fold two adjacent edges of the square to the diagonal. Then fold along the same diagonal to fold the model in half. Now fold a triangle as shown. Continue folding and wrapping. You will have to do this about two-three times until a small triangular flap will remain. Tuck this flap in the pocket to lock the model.
Now draw the picture of a bird. First a line for the beak. Color it yellow. Then draw the wings. With the scissors cut a small piece as shown. The color the bird with bright, attractive colors – the wings, the body and the tail. Stick two eyes on both sides of the bird. Mark the outlines with black ink. Now slide your index finger in the cavity leading to the beak. Move your index finger to make the bird peck. Place a bird on each index finger and move them simultaneously. This is a very simple finger puppet, and it can help animate a story for children in the classroom. 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