Let's go fly a kite

Activity type: Crafting
Materials: piece of newspaper, cloth or a plastic bag, 2X straws or sticks, string, scissors
Age group: 2-6
Time: 50 mins
Language: All

Activity description: 
​Today we will make a kite. Choose which kite your will make with the kids and make a sample kite at home to show as an example.  Start by explaining that today we will make a kite that we can fly together. It might be a bit hard and require patience and concentration, but the adults are here to help, we can all help each other and together we will get it done!  
Put some music on the background and get each parent – child pair to pick up their supplies and then find a space to sit at a table.  
Older kids kite:

• Cut out the shape of the kite as show on the right. You can use cloth, newspaper or even a plastic bag.  
• Place the straws onto the kite as shown and tape them on.  
• Put some tape on the corners and make holes, where shown in the picture. Taping prevents the holes from tearing. 
• ​Cut two pieces of sting, tie them through the holes on the sides and tie the strings together with a knot. 
• Cut a piece of the string (at least 65 cm). The length of the sting will be dependent on the size of the kite, the bigger the kite, the longer the string. Tie the long string to the central know.  

Kite options for younger kids:
Younger children may not be able to concentrate for as long. These kite options are more suitable for younger kids. Start with a song about flying a kite if you can find one in your language.  

• Optional: You can start by letting your child decorate an A4 paper with pens and crayons. Encourage them to draw feathers in different colors 
• Fold A4 paper in half 
• Fold the top corners to the sides and staple the corners to the fold.
• Cut out a tringle out of a different colored paper and some feathers for the tail (you may want to cut these in advance if the children are very young). Glue on the beak and tail feather. Draw on the birds’ eyes.  
• With a hole punch, make a hole just above the fold and tie the long string to the hole  

Japanese fish kite:
You can either use the pre-printed “fish-head” or you can just use colored pieces of paper that you can cut out and get children and parents to draw the fish face on.  

• Cut out the fish head and draw on some eyes and a mouth. 
• Cut out around 16 small (approx. 2,5 cm) pieces of crepe paper scales in each color. Crepe paper is best because it is light, but you can also use normal paper.  
• Next only glue the edges of the two blank sides of the fish together. Make sure the middle is not glued to allow air to go through the fish’s mouth (put a pencil in between two papers whilst they dry)
• whilst the glue dries - sing a song about a kite or fishes together 😊  
• Glue the colored crepe paper scales on the side of the fish in alternating colors to create an awesome looking fish.  
• Whilst the children are coloring the face, parents can cut out the crepe paper for the fish tail. Cut about 5 long pieces in different lengths and let you child clue them on.  
• Punch a hole in the fish’s mouth.  
• Get 2 pieces of string or yarn and tie them through hole. Tape the string to the wooden stick.

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