CHISTMAS TREE  | Telugu
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 12/12/2015

Let’s celebrate Christmas by making this wonderful Tree out of paper. Every year we cut around 80million trees worldwide. These trees are traditionally spruce, pine or fir have needle like leaves overall conical shape.  
We need around square pieces of paper of varying size. First take the square piece of paper and fold in half along both the sides and both the diagonals. So now you have divided the square in 8 small Triangles. Now open the paper and fold all four corners of the paper to the middle of the square to make a smaller square half the size of Original Square.
Now pinch the edges of the smaller square and push it inside to make a pyramid shaped structure. Pull the triangular flap down between the two walls and fold the middle point of triangle on the side. This leaves a small triangle hanging downwards. This small triangle needs to be folded between the two walls of the pyramid at the bottom.
Repeat this procedure for the remaining three triangles between the walls. This makes the primary structure the pyramid of our tree.
Make eight such structures from varying sizes of square paper.
Weave the smaller pyramid over the larger one and keep doing this for all the pyramids in ascending order. This makes a wonderful coniferous Christmas tree.  This looks conical or pyramid shaped like the real ones.
And now we can decorate the tree with paper star. Tie a knot in a small rectangular strip to make a pentagonal star.
You can put lots of stars and paper balls on the tree and decorate your house this Christmas. 

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, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar

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