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.
Play with it
Tap each term to see how everyday things are made and who makes them.
Learn
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.
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
On a festival day, a potter’s simple clay lamps light up thousands of homes — handmade things still matter.
From a cotton plant to thread, to cloth, to a stitched shirt — many skilled hands made what you wear.
A card you make yourself from paper and colours is a special gift, made with your own two hands.
Check yourself
A friendly set of questions to check that you can use these ideas, not just remember them.
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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