TUMBLING MATCHBOX | Punjabi
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2016-10-21

The TUMBLING MATCHBOX is a traditional toy which can be made with simple things found in the house. Take a card strip the same width as that of the matchbox. Wrap the card strip around the match box. Remove the matchbox and tape the strip to make it into a hoop or an ellipse. This hoop must fit on the match. 
Remove the matchbox drawer along with the matchsticks. We will not need them. Now place the matchbox outer shell partly in the card hoop. Then drop in two marbles. Then push the matchbox shell completely in. The marbles will make the matchbox heavy on one end. Stick two pictures of monkeys on the hoop to make the toy look realistic. 
Now place the toy on an inclined board and the monkeys will start to tumble in the most funny and intriguing way. 
You can also take a small plastic box – this happens to be an old powder box. Place three marble in it and then shut the lid. Stick paper on the plastic box to increase the friction. If you place this box on a ramp it will start to tumble.
Here you can see a few school boys delighting themselves tumbling the monkeys.  

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

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