A smiling face, round blue eyes, a bright outfit and an amazing ability to return to its original position. Grandparents of today's hyperactive toddlers, cheerfully and surprisedly trying to knock over their favorite toy, remember very well the “Vanka-Vstanka” of their childhood. The tumbler doll was one of the first entertainments for several generations. Today's "somersaults" can differ significantly in appearance, but bring the same joy. You can make a toy with your own hands. Available materials, a small amount of time, imagination - the tumbler doll toy is ready.
The toy owes its origin to the mysterious East. Legend claims that the prototype of “Vanka-Vstanka” was an ancient Buddhist monk who observed a vow of silence and immobility for a decade, as a result of which he lost his arms and legs. Then the tumbler doll, the description of which is found in ancient books, came to Japan, which had been isolated from the rest of the world for a long time, receiving the name “darum” after the name of the hermit monk. The toy is credited with the ability to make wishes come true. Eyes are not drawn on the face. The recipient of a daruma draws one eye, making a wish; its fulfillment is marked by the other eye. Otherwise, the tumbler is burned, following traditions, on the eve of the next New Year. Travelers brought this original children's entertainment, which has become a favorite for many generations, to Europe and Russia.
The Russian version received a head, a cheerful smile, and national clothes. A headdress and a musical instrument appeared. The stabilizing abilities and noise effects were appreciated. Soviet industry made mass production of “Vanka-Vstanka” for many years.
The tumbler doll has a simple round shape. The main feature - rising from a lying position - is due to the physical principle of stable balance. The correct placement of the load inside the lower part of the daruma is the main rule of manufacture. Guided by this law, it is easy to determine how to make a tumbler doll that takes a vertical position, swings in different directions, and turns around its axis.
A huge assortment of factory-made toys, bright and cheerful, expensive and not so expensive, makes it possible to please your child with an interesting, non-boring gift. A do-it-yourself tumbler will bring pleasure not only to the child, but also to the mother. Older children can be involved in joint work, the process will strengthen family friendship. The base of the toy will be any hollow vessel with a round bottom. The best option is the body of everyone’s favorite chocolate egg. Having secured a weight to the bottom of the vessel, the plastic container is filled with beads of different sizes, materials, and weights. The result is a wonderful rattle. The outside of the toy is covered with bright shreds and painted with cheerful colors.
Those who like to craft from wood can carve a hollow toy from suitable wood, install a sinker, decorate it, and varnish it. Such a souvenir will be an excellent gift not only for a small child, parents will be happy to receive a masterpiece specially made with their own hands.
An original figurine for the holiday is made from an ordinary eggshell. The insides are blown out or poured out, the resulting container is washed, a small weight (nut, heavy bead) is carefully lowered down, and secured with wax or paraffin. The first method: drip with a candle until the entire weight is covered, the second: finely chop the wax, pour it in and warm it over a low flame, after securing it in the correct position. When the base has hardened, draw a smiling face, put on the finished hat, cap, bow - a unique gift is ready.
The classic face of your favorite toy has long gone out of standard execution. The tumbler doll, a photo of which can be seen in the article, depicts your favorite cartoon character, the hero of a computer game. The author's imagination helps to give the tumbling doll the features of his beloved offspring, which will make the game more exciting. A lightweight ping pong ball will make the toy convenient and compact for little ones. Small sizes will allow you to make a swinging “family”. By painting the little people with different colors, drawing numbers or letters, they create an additional educational gaming tool.
The six-month-old baby happily plays with the new “Vanka-Vstanka”. At the same time, it distinguishes the volume of sound when rocking, develops fine motor skills, happily rocking your pet.
The two-year-old future man gives his favorite toy “tasks” - to guard the castle, the young lady teaches how to sit at the table correctly, monitor behavior, repeating the rules that she hears from her parents. Description of a toy, learning to count, and much more are much more enjoyable to learn with your favorite tumbler.
Childhood memories are the most vivid. The first toy is associated with joy and good mood. A tumbler doll, given to a friend or loved one for a birthday or family holiday, will strengthen warm relationships. A souvenir can carry a functional load. By placing a small clock mechanism in a tumbler, they build an excellent alarm clock that always keeps its balance. A young mother will be pleased to receive a sippy cup for her baby as a gift. The whole trick: a rounded base with a weight is glued to the bottom of the plastic cup, which prevents the dish from falling, maintaining balance.
Imagination and love will help in your work.
You will need:
1. Remove the lid from the box and cut it in half (cut the edge in the form of “waves”, as shown in the photo).
2. Using a template, make a drawing of a “ship with a mast” and cut out two identical parts from brown cardboard folded in half. Glue them together. Cut out a sail from white cardboard and glue it to the mast.
3. Cut strips of corrugated paper in different shades of blue. Stick them on the outside of the box - you get a “sea”. Also stick a few stripes on the inside.
4. Attach the ball inside the box with duct tape. Use an awl to pierce the box and the “hull of the ship” through. Thread the wire and bend its ends.
The cut box lid can be used as a template to accurately align the parts when connecting them with wire.
The sea on which your boat will sail can be made from any paper, not just corrugated paper.
Round tumbler. Craft from a box
Open the box, attach a ball to the side of the box with insulating tape and close the box with a lid.
Cover the box with thick plain paper.
Cut out the decorations and stick them on both sides of the box.
You can decorate it with bright stickers.
The round tumbler will roll until it encounters an obstacle on its way.
Today we will learn how to make such a funny tumbler from an egg:
DIY funny toys
“Merry Family” - tumbler toy master class with templates
Gorbunova Elena Valerievna, senior teacher of MDOU kindergarten No. 5 “Zvezdochka”, Furmanov.
Vanka and Vstanka have unhappy nannies:
They will begin to put Vanka to bed,
But Vanka doesn’t want to - he’ll lie down and jump up,
He will lie down again and get up again.
They will cover him with a blanket on cotton wool -
In a dream he will throw the blanket away,
And again, as before, he stands on the bed,
The child stands on the bed all night.
He was treated by a doctor from a children's hospital.
He said these words to the patient:
- That’s why it doesn’t suit you, dear,
That your head is too light!
S.Ya.Marshak "Vanka-Vstanka".
Who doesn’t know what a tumbler is (aka Vanka-Vstanka)? A simple plastic doll with a spherical body. You swing it to the side, but it stubbornly returns to the vertical position. It turns out that there are probably hundreds of modifications of tumblers already. With arms and legs that can perform wonderful dance steps. There are tumblers that can be put to sleep or, for example, that can stand on their heads. And a great many devices that use the “Vanka-Vstanka principle” for practical purposes.
The simplest tumbler has a simple design. A hollow round body in which the center of gravity is as low as possible. In such a way that when the body is tilted, the load rises and tends to return the doll to a vertical position. This toy attracts attention because everyday experience tells us that such a design should seem to fall at the slightest effort. But she, on the contrary, stubbornly jumps up. An ordinary ball has a center of gravity equidistant from any point on the surface. Therefore, it has “indifferent equilibrium” - no matter how you put it on a plane, it will lie there. Screw the “head” to it - the center of gravity will shift upward and the toy will tip over. But a hollow ball with a displaced center of gravity will always tend to turn with its load downward, occupying a stable equilibrium position.
It is believed that the tumbler came to us from Japan. There it had a round shape and was called Daruma. It was believed that such a doll brings good luck. Darumas with unpainted eyes were sold or given as gifts. When making a wish, the Japanese painted over one of the doll's eyes, and when it came true, he painted over the second. Our Vanka regained his head and appeared at fairs at the beginning of the 19th century.
This Vanka was turned out of linden on a lathe, a lead weight was inserted into the lower part and the doll was painted with bright colors. It would seem, how else can you improve the simplest ball with a load? Engineering thought has reached Vanka-Vstanka.
You can make Vanka complicate his oscillatory movements by making the position of the center of gravity changeable. In this model, the load is fixed on a flexible pin. Oscillating at its frequency, it introduces additional harmonics into the rocking of the tumbler.
And here the additional weight is attached to a rigid pin, but with a hinged fastening. It will force the doll to make additional rotational movements.
The design of this model is simpler. Here the ball rolls freely at the bottom of the doll. But in the bear pictured below, the balls roll down along a spiral path, causing it to swing and at the same time turn around its axis in the opposite direction.
And here is Vanka, who knows how to balance with his hands:
When tilted, a load connected by an elastic thread to the arms forces the tumbler to raise the arm opposite to the upward tilt. It seems that the toy is balancing with its hands, trying to maintain balance. But since there can be arms, why not add legs too? This Vanka can even move around a little :).
Liquid fuel dolls perform very unusual movements. Here the load is a ferromagnetic fluid flowing under the influence of not only gravity, but also a suspended magnet. Even a choreographer will marvel at the smooth movements of such a dancer.
A watch that will always be in a vertical position.
Or an iron, which is difficult to forget on an expensive dress, because it rises to a non-working position as soon as you let it go.
But here is an unusual case for a mobile phone, which is more difficult to lose in the surrounding space, because it, like a float, tends to take a vertical position.
Based on materials from the sites trizland.ru, class-fizika.narod.ru.
The pictures were taken from the site "Cool Physics" class-fizika.narod.ru
