ten little fingers - arvind gupta (4 mb pdf)

FAN TAILED BIRD1. Take a 7.5-cm x 3.0-cm strip ofbond paper. Fold its length into threeequal parts. Leaving one third of thewidth cut two sectors along thelength Repeat the same at the othershort edge.2. Fold one third ofthe end strips inwardsand glue them.3. Cut a one centimetrelong piece from an oldball pen plastic refilland flatten one of itsends by pressing itbetween your teeth.4. Put a pin throughthis end. The oval refillend prevents the pinfrom going through.5. Apply glue (Fevibond /Vamicol is best) on the doubledup ends. Stick the end of the pinas shown in the picture.6. Now turn the strip and stickthe two glued portions together.Glue7. If you now hold the refill andblow through the wide side ofthis Y shaped propeller then itwill rotate very fast.8. Fold a FLAPPINGBIRD using a 10-cmsquare of thick paper. Cutthe bird’s tail as shown bythe dotted lines.9. Apply glue on both the innerportions of the tail and stick theplastic refill of the fan. Take careso that the glue does not touchthe head of the pin.10. Tie a thread to thebird and then rotate it.11. The tail fan will rotate giving afeel of the bird in flight.