TIPPING BIRD | Malayalam
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 15/04/2016

This is a wonderful model of a bird which just tips to one side. You will need a square paper 20-cm on the edge and a sketch pen. First fold the paper along the diagonal and then open it. Then bring two adjacent edges to the diagonal to make a diamond shape. Fold the triangle below to make a isosceles triangle. Once again fold the two short edges to the midline to make a smaller diamond. Repeat this process once again. Once again fold the top triangle and bring the short edges to the midline. Now there will be many creases – 16 creases in all. Now fold the model along its spine to complete the bird. Place the bird on a table and soon its tail will lift and it will tip to one side. This is what is happening. The multi-crease triangle inside opens up and this gently shifts the center of gravity and makes the bird tip to one side. This is a fun toy. See this one tipping over – as if by magic! Now paint and decorate the bird with a sketch pen. In the end are two birds one red and yellow engaged in a tipping competition!

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

Dubbed in Malayalam by CK Biju, SNV Sanskrit HSS, Kochi 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