TREE NAME PLATE | Punjabi
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2016-11-30

Three are trees all around us and they become friends if we know their names. Trees give us food, shelter, wood, shade, fuel and much more. But still we know very little about trees. If we put little name plates on trees then people can know their names and say a “hello” to a tree. To make nameplates you will an Alphabet Punch set which are like hardened chisels. There are also number punches from 0 to 9. The letter punches come in various font sizes. Take a thin aluminum sheet and place it on an old magazine. Place the appropriate punch and hammer and the letter will be embossed. Slowly, emboss the whole name of the tree. This is the Spathodea campanulata – also called as the Syringe Tree. To increase the visibility inlay the embossing with a marker pen. This way people can read the name from far away and this will be good public education. Apart from the Botanical name you can also write the common English name and the Local name. Make many name plates and tie them to trees, bushes and shrubs. You can emboss names of trees on the inside of Tetrapaks. Schools could take this project and encourage children to place name plates on trees. This will be great public education. 

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

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Credits:,Ashok Rupner,  Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar

Dubbed in Punjabi by Bipanmeesh Kaur, Delhi Public School, Ludhiana