Woven Ball | Kannada | Fun with Paper
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2015-02-17

This colorful woven ball is made from 4 long strips of color paper. You need four strips 30-cm long and 2-cm wide. Hold one end of each strip together and staple them so that they are a little phased out. Then take the top strip from the left side and the bottom strip from the right side. Cross both these strips. This is the mantra. Continue this process - top strip from the left side and the bottom strip from the right side. And slowly, a colorful woven ball will start to emerge. In the end you will be left with the four ends of the strips. Tuck these ends in the previous folds. This will lock the ball – and the ball will not open up. We use no glue at all in this ball. In the end if there a strip end still pops out after tucking then trim it with the scissors. Slowly you will make a multi-color beautiful ball. You can throw this ball in the air and catch it. Here you can see these young girls playing a game of throw and catch.

Instead of using paper strips you can use a Palmyra leaf. Double the Palmyra leaf and tear out the midrib. This midrib is the hard part and makes the famous coconut broomstick. Take four such leaves and tie their thin ends into a knot. Tear away the extra bit. Now once again weave these leaves - top strip from the left side and the bottom strip from the right side. Continue this process until you make a beautiful natural ball. Then poke the broom stick in the ball and tie a loop as a stopper. Then swing the stick several times and let it go!! This is precisely what the designer of this ball Prof. Surendra is doing! 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