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Practical exercise

Make one functional object: phone stand, pen holder, or kite spool

Decorative work is good; useful work is better. Today you make one object that is used after you make it. Three options, all from materials in any Pakistani household: a phone stand from cardboard, a pen holder from a tin can, or a kite spool (charkhi) from a piece of round wood and two cardboard discs. The object must work, not just look right. Family members will use it after you finish.

60 min·practitioner
Mimi the mascot, encouraging you

Now try it

Make one functional object: phone stand, pen holder, or kite spool

Stretch

Build a second copy of the same object, learning from the first. Note in writing the three things you changed and why. Iteration documentation is what turns making into engineering.

Goes into your portfolio

Three photos: the sketch you started with, the finished object on its own, and a shot of the object actually being used by a family member. Plus a one paragraph note: what worked, what failed in the test, and what you would change in version 2.