The next time you are planning an out-of-town excursion school with your students, do consider a trip to this amazing hands-on exploratory space for young children where they experience "science" through the joy of making things. This center, housed within IUCAA (Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astro-Physics) in Pune, is where Arvind Gupta and others delight children on a regular basis, with hand-made toys from everyday things that bring the principles of Science and Maths alive. read more

A playful digital toy on the web. The user is given a digital canvas to create a puppet, including the colouring, and let it dance on the web. The website is very Open, the most recent user's puppet goes on the show on the main page; one can dig the archives and play the other puppets. It seems fun time-pass activity for kids (and adults too!). The contexts in which one could apply it for learning is less clear but who knows... read more

Sutradhar is an NGO based in Bangalore which can be best described thus (from their website) -

"Sutradhar was started in 1995 as a non-profit trust to improve the quality of education for children. We are particularly focussed in the use of media in educating children. By "media" we mean toys, games, storybooks and other teaching aids that help children learn.

We believe that a large variety of play materials allows children to learn concepts and make connections – the foundations of early learning. read more

I had the privilege of watching Mr. Arvind Gupta in action at Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore, where he has been invited to share his ideas on "tinkering" and toy-making with everyday stuff with the children of Std. 06 for about a week. The children are enjoying their time with him immensely. That they are beginning to see science in action in toys made from everyday stuff, is of course, an icing on the proverbial cake.

I have uploaded a couple of the videos on youtube.com. read more

I had the privilege of watching Mr. Arvind Gupta in action at Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore, where he has been invited to share his ideas on "tinkering" and toy-making with the children of Std. 06 for about a week. The children are enjoying their time with him immensely - building air and water pumps out of empty toothpaste tubes, straws and empty film roll cannisters, motors out of batteries, magnets and copper wire, sound-makers out of straw, and what not. read more