Dump Truck | Bhojpuri | Fun with Matchboxes
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2015-04-17

You can make a delightful Dump Truck with two matchboxes. You’ll also need 4 show buttons for the wheels, two needles, old ball pen refill, glue and a toothpick.
Heat the tip of a needle in a candle flame and poke it in the center of a show button. Slip in a 2-cm long ball pen refill which will act as a bush bearing. Then heat the other end of the needle and poke it in the pip of the other button. This way you will get a pair of good wheels which will spin smoothly. Make two such pairs of wheels.
Remove the drawer from the matchbox. Cut the side flap of the drawer and bend it down. Then glue it to the underside of the match shell. The drawer will become the LOADING PLATFORM of the dump truck. Now remove the drawer out from the second matchbox. Flatten the outer shell and cut off one-thirds. Stand the two-thirds shell in the drawer to make the DRIVER’S CABIN. Join both the matchboxes to complete the chassis of the DUMP TRUCK. Now make a hole in the driver’s cabin in place a toothpick lever as the LIFTING JACK. 
Finally tape the pair of wheels to the matchbox base. The truck is all ready to glide smoothly on the road. In the end load the truck with pebbles. Then press the toothpick lever with a refill. You will be surprised to see that the LOADING PLATFORM will slowly lift and all the cargo will be UNLOADED. 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