KITE LONG TAIL DOWNLOAD

How does the kite fly compared to when it had no tail? Why do you think this is?ĭid you know that one of the most famous kite flyers of all time was a 10-year-old boy? His name was Homan Walsh, and without him the Niagara Falls Bridge may not have been built in 1847. (This will probably be less than one grocery bag ring.) Try to fly your kite outside again, first walking and then running with it. Using the plastic grocery bag rings you made, tape a tail to the bottom of your kite that is 4 inches (10 cm) long.Discard the handle pieces and the bottom strip of the bag, but save the rings. When you get to the handles (if the bag has handles), you can cut around them to make more rings, or cut across the bag to just remove the handles.Keep cutting the bag this way until you have cut up the whole bag. Cut straight across the bottom of the bag to create thin rings (which will look like strips when flat), each about 1 inch (or 3 cm) wide.To make some tails to test on your kite, take a plastic grocery bag or other thin plastic bag and lay it completely flat.What does the kite do when you walk and then when you run? How well does it fly? First walk with it, then try running with it.

Try to fly your kite in an open, clear area outside.

Tie one end of this string to the other end of the paper clip.

Cut a 40-inch (1 meter)-long piece of kite string.

Tie the opposite end of both strings together to one end of a paper clip. Tie them tight, but not so tight that you tear the paper.

Cut two pieces of kite string, each about 18 inches (or 45 centimeters ) long.

Using a hole punch, carefully punch the two holes marked by the black circles.

Place three pieces of tape in the marked areas covering the black circles to reinforce the holes for the kite string.

Trim the length of the two drinking straws so they will fit in the area marked for the straws.

You can decorate it using crayons, markers, or other art supplies.

KITE LONG TAIL DOWNLOAD

Download the Sled Kite Template and print it out on a sheet of 8 ½” x 11″ paper.

Kite long tail