Paper Chimney | English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2015-04-06

This is a wonderful toy you can make with an old book with lots of paper. It looks a chimney or a funnel or even an earthen pot (surahi in hindi). If the book has lots of pages it will make a fully circular nice looking chimney.
Open the cover of the book and fold the first page in half lengthwise. Then fold a triangle on the next page. Again fold the next page in half and triangle on the next. Repeat this process of folding in half and triangles on alternate pages of the book.
And now the chimney is ready. Open the cover and the hidden chimney shows up. The top part of the chimney is cylindrical. The Bottom part is also cylindrical and the middle part is conical (truncated cone or conical frustum).
Lying on the back this looks like a chandelier and you can play unfurling its papers. 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