In fact, it`s either too windy or too still. It`s not always a perfect day for kite flying. After your children see their creations come to life they will be won over. There are other alternative paper crafts that you can try.

Use a strong thread or very fine string for simple paper kites, and they will fly better. Felt tips or markers are best for bold colored decoration, and paper streamers, or thin strips of polythene for kite tails. Feathers are nice and light and plastic sequins are also feather light. Buy light materials to build kites, and decorate them. You can make the kind of kite you see in my pictures, or make small diamond kites from tissue paper and thin dowels or bamboo sticks. There are different types of craft paper that can be used depending on which kind of paper kite you are going to make. Kite craft materials are inexpensive and can be bought locally. You don`t need to spend a packet on entertainment for children. One or two days spent making them and one to enjoy the flying. I`m curious! Do kids know what a Sunday-best shirt is? Maybe not!Ī few days out of the holidays can be spent on any of these kite craft ideas. You can even make them out of your Sunday-best shirt according to Maxwell Eden who wrote 'The Magnificent Book of Kites'. You can build them out of so many different materials like wrapping paper, polythene bags, newspaper, calico, and rip stop nylon. If that sounds a bit complicated, the classic diamond might appeal to your construction crew. All you need is a few drinking straws, string and tissue paper and you`re all set for some fun. They are much harder to fly, taking a bit of skill but they do look koooool. These are for the older kids to make, and it will take a few days to complete the project. Have you heard of a tetrahedron kite? We are getting into the symmetrical here. Anything that makes some kind of interesting sound will do. Bees, butterflies, fish like the Japanese koinobori, snakessssss! As for wind chimes, save old cds, large buttons, beads or tin cans. Wind socks are colorful and can be made from either polythene, or kite fabric. Keep them occupied with making wind socks or wind chimes which have an endless variety of themes to choose from. Like the pinwheels, or windmills as we call them here is England, there are other kite crafts that children can admire and enjoy right at home in the back garden.

If their little hands find them too hard to construct, theyĬan decorate and someone older ones put them together. There are quite a few simple wind toys you can get children to build for Helping to ignite the creativity in them for this activity.

You, make it a date to take the kids so they can see all the different If you know of any kite festival taking place this year near

All the components for this project can be foundĪround the home and there are no skills needed to get it to lift off theįlying a kite is a calming pastime for kids and a very Of constructions, which only took about 1 hour to make from scratch to We had long hours of enjoyment from the easiest The end result worked a treat with the Iain and The simplest paper kite we could think of to make was based on an A4 So keep it simple at first! Later I will introduce you to more advanced kites but not too difficult. There is nothing worse than children becoming impatient because the end product is not in site quick enough. The best kids crafts to begin with should be the easiest ones. Getting the kids involved in hands on kite craft is where the excitement starts.

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