Draw Your Own Kite Design

1 4 inch round wooden dowel 36 inch twine or string small handsaw to cut the dowel lightweight craft paper large enough to fit the frame of your kite a roll of easel paper works well scissors glue stick ribbon craft paint and brushes craft tube.

Draw your own kite design. I can teach my child. Kites and kite flying have also inspired other flight inventions such as the para glider hang glider and sport parachutes. Chances are you ve already checked out how to build kites using the simple diamond instructions up there. Design your own kite to show a challenge that you ve overcome in your life and the people who have helped you along the way.

The materials and tools for making these kites are very easy to find and cheap to buy. The challenge or problem. Kite with streamers. Most of our kite kits include flying line and some even come with paints or crayons.

In fact you ll probably find most of them around the house somewhere. Kid made kite from i can teach my child. You can make your kite out of a classic brown lunch sack. The kite will fly without a tail but will fly better with one.

Use thick string or a strip of cloth for the tail. Decorate with markers stickers glitter or. Tie these together until the tail is around 10x the length of the kite. Make your own kite.

The kite tail is essential for stability in the air and keeps your kite from nose diving. Tie the tail to the end of the kite frame. Use other plastic bags to cut out long strips of plastic. On either side measure 15cm down from the top.

Create your kite tail. Attach the tail to the bottom end of the frame looping it over the frame several times and tying it tightly. Cutting two holes towards the rear edge of the kite will help it fly in stronger winds. A brilliant kite flyer s smile is at the end of each flying line kite kits for children and adults kites in the sky high quality kite kits come with clear simple instructions high quality pre cut parts and sails.

Attach streamers at the bottom of the kite to help it fly through the sky. Use ruler or other straight edge to draw a line between these marks and the top centre. Kites in radio and wireless communication italian inventor guglielmo marconi transmitted the first radio signal across the atlantic ocean from england to new foundland using a large kite to lift the receiver antenna 400 feet into the air. Make the sail of your kite with a large sheet of paper 60cm long by 45cm wide.

Make a kite tail with a 6 ft 1 8 m long piece of thick string. A reel of brown paper will do or buy coloured paper from a craft shop. In the first panel design a visual representation of a particular problem you ve faced in your life. Pick a string or cloth color that matches the color of your sail so your kite looks pretty in the air.

In the description box below describe the situation. Fold the paper in half lengthways.