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Are your kids dying of boredom this summer like mine? I'm not ready to send my girls back to school yet, but I am in desperate need of some more things for them to do! Today, we made these adorable mini paper kites. They're quick and easy enough for your youngest crafters. Depending on age, the kids can make these kites as simple or as fancy as they'd like. Get ready for a fun and easy boredom buster!

Now, send the kids out to test the kites! Sure, the kites will fly higher on a windy day, but don't let no wind deter you. No wind just means that the kids get a lot more exercise running around! My daughters loved spinning and running around with their paper kites. Have fun!

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Really great idea..If my little girl wasn't only 3 months old I'd definitely be trying some of these! I love the kites, I remember doing them as a child! I was brought here by the Link party on a bowl full of lemons hoping to find new bloggers to follow and I am really enjoying your site!

Kite paper can be just about any kind of paper, but making kites fly really well requires more than just ordinary writing paper. The main properties required are strength and lightweight. Gift wrap's not bad. Having said that, I'm going to touch on thewhole variety of paper used in modern kite-making.

Going back to at least the middle of the 1900s, kites for childrenwere available in shops. The bulk of these used paper for sail material.Although shop-bought kites now use mainly plastic or nylon, kite-makingworkshops for kids still often feature paper or tissue for sails.

The simple diamond is a common choice, since it is so easy tomake and is such a reliable flyer. The longer the tail, the morereliable :-) Rokkakus are often made of paper too. Another choice forthe more artistically minded is butterfly kites, which tend to be paleimitations of the real flying art-works from China.

Here, the range of options is pretty wide. For a kite with aframe, such as a diamond or rok, almost anything works to a degree. Aslong as it is not so porous that it lets air through! A perimeter linegoes around the tips of the spars, and the paper or tissue is madeslightly oversize. Hence, the sail can be folded over and pasted downaround the edges to help keep it flat and resist tearing.

Not surprisingly, this approach tends to result in ... minimum performance too, but that doesn't stop loadsof people enjoying the thrill of making something themselves and thenseeing it fly! Long tails are often required to keep the kites stable,and they won't fly at all in light winds since the paper and tape can berather heavy. Of course, kids can always tow them around to make them fly.

What's the most commonly available kind of paper on the planet?A4 or Letter-sized sheets of course, as commonly used for photocopying. These are too heavy for greatperformance but can be coaxedto fly as proven by the kite designs already mentioned. In fact, thepicture up there is our Minimum Sled design. It's crafted from a single sheetof A4 and precious little else!

Any reasonably thin and stiff type of paper could be tried andshould work to a degree. For example, wrapping paper, which could havesome great patterns preprinted on it. However, flimsy tissue or crepepaper would be less suitable.

Although kite-making tradition goes back 100s or even 1000s of yearsin various locations, modern kite-makers in Asia are still churning outlarge volumes of paper kites which are very faithful to ancienttraditions. Often, the kite paper and techniques used are virtuallyunchanged.

Andin the next photo you can see the whole train of traditional Taiwanesekites that we saw at the Adelaide Kite Festival one year. They are tissue paperand bamboo; all are attached to a single natural-material flying line.

Apparently, the art of hand-making extremely strong butlight kite paper originated in China before finding its way to Japan. InJapan, this "washi" paper is often created from the bark of mulberrytrees.

The final product is laminated from thin layers of fiber, one ontop of another. It's the long length of the fibers which gives the extra strength. Commercially-made paper created from wood pulp just can't compare!

Modern recreations of these kites workadequately well with tissue sheets from newsagents or gift shops. As long asthe tissue has relatively low thickness, weight, and stretch, it is fine.However, the Indian makers of the best fighters have their own specialsources for tissue paper.

To make this kite, you will need:

1. 8.5"x11" piece of paper.

This is your standard copy paper size. Regular paper works fine, but I like card stock because it's a little sturdier. Use whatever you have. If you use plain white paper, let your kid color bright designs all over it before beginning the project.

2. A wooden skewer. A straight drinking straw works too.

3. Kite string. You can find this at a lot of department stores. If not, almost any strong but light string would work. Quilters' string is about the right thickness. Yarn may be too heavy, sewing thread too light. Fishing line is light but strong.

4. Ribbon. Most wide ribbon would work fine. I like using surveyors tape (available at hardware stores) because it's made of plastic, which is lighter (for a longer tail!) and durable. Surveyors tape comes in bright fluorescent colors that kids like.

5. Scissors or hole punch.

6. Tape.

Mark a point on the top of the paper about one inch from the fold.

Mark a point on the bottom of the paper about one inch from the open side.

Imagine, or draw, a line connecting these two dots.

Your kite is ready to fly!

These kites don't need very much wind to get lift, and are not the best for VERY windy days. A nice steady breeze is all it needs.

Remember, sometimes it takes practice to learn to fly a kite. Just remember to reel it in some if it looks like it's falling, and let out more string if it starts to tug hard. Make sure that middle "spine" is straight before the kite goes up.

Good luck!

Excellent Instructable!

Last night we made these with our Cub Scout pack, and I passed on the design to another pack who did the same. The preparation for both was very much last minute for both of us.

Both cub packs had an total success in making the kites. given about 25-30 mins all the kids had a decorated kite with a string they could use to run about with the kite. All of the kids took them home!

Thank you!

The Paper Kites play in Wellington at Bodega, Friday 9th October and Auckland at The Powerstation, Saturday 10th October. We have a double pass to giveaway to their Auckland and Wellington shows. See the Come Alive Facebook page for details to enter.

For more details on their New Zealand shows visit: www.thepaperkites.com.au/tour-dates

Fantastic kites made of handmade Japanese washi paper show off the craft of the papermaker and the artistic and engineering skill of the kitemaker. These fantastic washi kites are works of art that are displayed in the sky rather than on the walls of a traditional gallery.

From humble beginnings in 1982, when owner Nancy Jacobi started showing artists and bookbinders gorgeous Japanese papers from the trunk of her car, The Japanese Paper Place staff remain committed to the company's ideal of encouraging and promoting creativity with quality Japanese papers.

Like the other kites in the collection, Kite, girl is made from traditional Chinese materials. It has a split cane bamboo frame wrapped in Chinese paper. Gouache, an opaque watercolor, decorates the front of the kite with an image of a girl wearing a blue garment and black pants, carrying a red piece of paper and a basket.

With the goal of stabilizing the original materials, we proposed that the kite would undergo surface cleaning, pigment consolidation, tape removal, and humidification. The addition of a Japanese paper lining would restore structural stability to the kite. Finally, a new box would be constructed for safe storage and handling.

Once the front was stabilized, surface cleaning and tape removal continued. Exposing the back of the kite was exciting as it revealed how the kite was constructed. The bamboo was lashed together with twisted paper ties, while the Chinese paper was so thin that the laid and chain lines (evidence of the handmade paper manufacturing process) were immediately apparent, and a graphite underdrawing was visible! e24fc04721