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the pecking birds is a traditional toy. its difficult to buy this toy today but you can
make this using stiff straws, all pins, glue and some card sheet. take a long straw and
poke pins near its two ends. then take two short straws 8cms long, make holes in their
ends and weave both these short straws in the pins. finally take another long straw
with pins and weave the other side of short straws in them to make a rectangular frame.
you can see that the frame is ready. then take pliers and cut the sharp ends of all
the four pins and also bend them. now the frame is ready. as it moves you can see that
the rectangular changes into a parallelogram and this is the principle of this toy. apply
glue at the center of the straws and two ends. stick two birds on the two ends and stick
a bowl of corn in the center and now the toy is ready to play. as you move the frame it
distorts from rectangle into a parallelogram and birds peck at the grain one by one.