Fun with Twisted Bottle | English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2016-02-09

In America close to a billion bottles are consigned to the dump every single day. Instead of throwing, we could make interesting things from bottles. You will need a stiff plastic bottle and a pen knife. Hold the mouth of the bottle and make long 1-cm wide uniform cuts along the whole surface of the bottle. Be carefully while cutting. Seek adult help. This is how the cut bottle will look like. On pressing the ends the bottle will compress. On leaving the bottle will spring back to its original height. Now hold the mouth with one hand and twist the base. The bottle will take an unusual shape with a neck near the top. See the Twisting Action once again. The twisted bottle will make a very beautiful flower vase. Now untwist the bottle. This shape will make a very nice lamp shade!

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.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