Bottle Spinner | English

Using a used Plastic Bottle we will make a simple and delightful SPINNER. Here you can see the boy playing joyfully with the spinner. We will need a throwaway plastic bottle, scissors, needle and decorative color tapes. First make a hole in the bottle with a needle about 10-cm from the base. Then cut the bottle using a small scissors. Make 10 equally spaced cuts on the lower end of the bottle from the rim to the base. Then flatten all the 10 cut petals. Then decorate the petals with colorful tapes. Then twist all the 10 petals to give them a curvature so that they become blades. The propeller is now ready. If the bottle base is convex then it is easier for the propeller to spin. Place the convex part on the cut bottle mouth and place the whole assembly under a ceiling fan. Soon the propeller will be spinning fast. The beauty of this dynamic toy is made from a throwaway plastic bottle!

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.ernet.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, Gunjan Rupner, Gargi 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