Slithering Snake |Gujarati | Traditional Indian Toy
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2015-03-14

This is a traditional Indian toys with which generations of Indian children have played with. On the underbelly of the snake you will find a clay pulley with two holes with a rubber band woven through them. A black thread is tied to the pulley. On holding the rubber band and rotating the pulley the thread will wind on the pulley. The two ends of the rubber band are attached to the two hooks of a wire arch fixed to the snake’s head.  The other end of the thread comes out through a hole on top of the snake’s head. In this side view you can see that pulling and releasing the thread you can wind and unwind the rubber band and thus rotate the clay pulley. Now pull the thread and place the clay pulley on the ground. This will wind the rubber band. On loosening the thread the snake will leap forwards. Children have great fun playing with this snake. This snake beautifully imitates the slithering and other actions of a real snake. 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