Talking Frog | Bhojpuri | Dynamic Origami
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 10/02/2015

The Talking Frog is a very dynamic paper toy. All you need is a square and a long strip of paper. Fold the mid-line in the square and then a slant roof. Fold the roof down. Upturn the paper and shut the two doors. Again fold a slant roof and then open it up. Make cross folds and then lift a small triangle to make the right eye of the frog. Similarly lift the small triangle to make the left eye of the frog. 
The frog is slowly evolving. Upturn and fold the mouth. It will have a lower and an upper jaw. Take a 1.5-cm x 20-cm strip and fold it thrice so as to make it stiff. Then double the frog and cut a cross slit on its vertical axis. Slip the strip in the slit and push it inside until it reaches the nose of the frog. Paint two eyes.
Now if you gently push-pull the strip the lower jaw of the frog will move up and down as if the frog was talking. 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