Butterfly's Hide and Seek -  English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2015-12-14

Today we will make a beautiful butterfly playing hide and seek. As you open / close the box the butterfly will appear and disappear at your will. For making this you will need color card sheet, sketch pens, scissors, glue and a small piece of plastic. First fold the blue strips along the lines. We use two strips and glue them together make a reinforced square frame. Apply glue and stick both the strips to make the blue frame. The other magenta card is 21-cm on the base and 10-cm high. The shape is that of a twin-house. You will see a vertical cut on the top with two triangles. Glue the triangles together to make a magenta half-box. This is the view from below of this box. On pressing the triangle goes up and down. Then take two same size butterflies and apply glue on their back sides. Stick the butterflies back-to-back. On both sides there will be two colorful and different butterflies. Glue a plastic strip on the tail of the butterflies. Stick the other end of the plastic strip to the underside of the magenta half-box. On pressing the half-box the butterfly will go up. On opening the half-box the butterfly will go down. Keep closing / opening the half-box to make the butterfly go up/down. Finally apply glue on both edges of the magenta half-box and stick it inside the blue frame as shown. On closing /opening the blue frame the butterfly will constantly move up/down. It will appear as if the butterfly was playing a game of hide and seek. You can turn the frame to see the differently colored back side of the butterfly. Instead of the butterfly you can stick a picture of a human being.

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

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar 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