So, get to building and watch your kid take their first flight! A few household items, or maybe a stop at the hardware store on your way home is all you need! Within just one hour you can have your kid out running in the backyard smiling ear to ear pointing up in the sky at his new handmade toy.
Mine resulted in it getting swallowed up by the sky but every minute was exhilarating to say the least! It’s an exhilarating activity unlike most, I vividly remember my first experience flying a kite. The type of fun that has kids firing questions of curiosity like pop rocks. From building, to holding the spool, feeling the vibrations of the kite soaring in the wind, smelling the fresh air of the outdoors, and taking in the sights of the whole environment is truly an experience every kid should have growing up.įun. To build and fly a kite is sensory overload.
But, their imagination of the kite coasting through the sky is where imaginations can sky rocket. Therefore, allow your kid to pick out a themed sail, let them draw their favorite characters or sports team on it before assembling the kite, or leave it blank. Since the origin of kites, the sails were decorated to express peoples’ creativity. The beauty of starting from scratch lets your kid use their imagination. It provides the perfect opportunity to display problem solving skills to teach your kid that failure is ok, and to get back to the drawing board. But, this takes the experience to another level. Building with your hands is extremely gratifying, then to put the project to test and watch it soar sky high is the cherry on top. Most importantly, building a kite with your kid invests quality time and an opportunity to teach them valuable lessons. Skip the Amazon checkout, instead I’ll walk you through the necessary supplies and steps to build your own. Next Benjamin Franklin? Probably not, but don’t rule it out! Ultimately, there’s plenty of fun, healthy reasons to get outside and fly a kite with the little ones this spring/summer. In short, kites were a piece of technology for scientists, inventors, and militaries that clearly served as a catalyst to the technology available to us today. Meanwhile, Benamin Franklin and the Wright Brothers utilized the kite, giving us the technology we rely on today. Mu Zi, a Chinese joinery, used a man lifting kite for military action between 1000 BC and 0 BC. But, kite flying made it’s mark well before its popularity grew to family neighborhoods across the world. Guiding the small aerial objects through the warm summer breeze was a common outdoor activity.
The smooth dowels take paint well and are safe wood crafts sticks for little hands too! GET CREATIVE, AND GET CRAFTING - DIY is double the fun! Use these wooden sticks for crafting kites, centerpieces, scale models, and more.CUT YOUR OWN LENGTHS FROM THIS 3 FOOT ROD - Does your project require many different lengths? Get this 36" dowel rod and easily cut the sizes you want.
Made from clean Baltic birch wood, they are straight and uniformly sized.
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