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Things Around Us · NCERT Class 3 Our Wondrous World

Making Things

Every thing we use was made by someone from a raw material. Tap each idea to follow clay, cotton and wood as they become useful things, and meet the skilled people who make them.

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Six things about making things

Tap each term to see how everyday things are made and who makes them.

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Three big ideas

  • Everything we use begins as a raw material — clay, cotton, wood, metal or wheat.
  • People shape these into useful things: clay into pots, cotton into cloth, wood into chairs.
  • The change happens in steps — for example, wheat → flour → dough → a soft roti.

Trace it. Where does the cloth of your shirt begin?

It begins as cotton growing on a plant. The cotton is spun into thread, woven into cloth, and stitched into a shirt.

  • Skilled people make the things we use. The potter makes pots, the weaver makes cloth.
  • The carpenter makes furniture from wood, and the tailor stitches clothes.
  • They learn their skill with practice, and they make our lives easier. We should respect and thank them.
Remember: The things around you did not appear by magic. A real person, with skill and hard work, made each one.
  • People use tools to make things — a wheel for pots, a loom for cloth, a hammer and saw for wood.
  • Some things are made by hand and some by big machines in factories, but both need people’s care and skill.
  • We can make simple things ourselves too — a clay toy, a paper boat or a card for a friend.

Make it. What can you make at home from waste paper?

You could make a greeting card, a paper boat, or a bookmark. Making things by hand is fun and saves waste.

Where you'll see it

Made things all around us

A clay diya

On a festival day, a potter’s simple clay lamps light up thousands of homes — handmade things still matter.

Your cotton shirt

From a cotton plant to thread, to cloth, to a stitched shirt — many skilled hands made what you wear.

A handmade card

A card you make yourself from paper and colours is a special gift, made with your own two hands.

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Fun quiz

A friendly set of questions to check that you can use these ideas, not just remember them.

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Interactive built to the OpenMAIC approach (THU-MAIC, MIT). Content from the NCERT Class 3 Our Wondrous World textbook (ncert.nic.in).

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