TEN LITTLE FINGERS - Arvind Gupta

FLYING FISH1. To make it all you need is a strip of oldnewspaper. The strip should be 2-cm wideand about 12-cm. long. Place the strip in ahorizontal position. On the lower right- handside, about 1.5-cm. from the end, cut a slithalf-way across the strip.2. Make a similarcut on the upperleft- hand side.3. Slip both the slitsinto each other sothat they interlocktogether.4. The fish is now complete.HELICOPTER5. Throw it high in theair and it will twist andturn around on its wayto the ground. Trymaking Flying Fishes ofvarious sizes andcolours. This is thesimplest and the mostamazing flying objectthat you can make. Thefish will twist and turnround and round as itcomes to the ground.1. Cut a long strip of paper12-cm. long and 3-cm.wide. Cut two-thirds of thelength along the dotted lines.4. Fasten the two ends witha paper clip, and that thehelicopter will stay verticalwhile flying.2. Hold the upper right-handand the lower left-hand andbring them together.3. To form a ‘V’ shape.5. Now drop the helicopterfrom a height andwatch it whirl round andround. Make a loopwith the thumb and firstfinger of your right hand.Try and catch thevertical tail of the fallinghelicopter in this loop.