Toys from Trash

Get the junk out of the trunk and fashion it into cool toys that promise endless hours of fun.

Create over 50 toys—a cool stick figure from ice cream sticks, a snazzy goody bag from an old plastic bottle, a simple spoon propeller from plastic spoons and even a complicated water turbine from a water bottle and drinking straws. All out of readily available material.

The step-by-step instructions and simple and clear illustrations make this handy book to have at home to tide over long vocations.

Arvind Gupta graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1975) with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He has written 15 books on science activities, translated 140 books into Hindi and presented 125 films on science activities on Doordarshan. His first book Matchstick Models & Other Science Experiments was translated into 12 Indian languages and sold over half a million copies. He has received several honours, including the inaugural National Award for Science Popularization amongst children (1988), Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT, Kanpur (2000), Indira Gandhi Award for Science Popularisation (2008) and the Third World Academy of Science Award (2010) for making science interesting for children.