Aloha Ray, Good to see your name on the list. Where were you when I was 8 and in love with all things kite? This is great! Betsy At 11:07 AM 2/17/2009, you wrote:
>Make a Box shaped work of art and watch it soar in the sky.Building and >flying kites is fun for kids of all ages. >Download ><<http://media.rd.com/dynamic/19/91/34/Make%20a%20Box%20kite.pdf>http://media.rd.com/dynamic/19/91/34/Make%20a%20Box%20kite.pdf> >Kite for Kids project PDF. > >These kites are constructed with 6mm timber dowels, called spares, with >short lengths of plastic tube for flexible joints. The sails are made of >Tyvek, a light, moisture-resistant, tough and inexpensive material. It's >easily decorated with paint or felt-tipped pens and doesn't tear easily. >Find Tyvek at hobby shops and speciality kite suppliers such as Kite Magic >(www.kitesite.com.au), along with kite flying lines on plastic handles. The >tails are made of lengths of nylon ribbon. >This design flies well in moderate winds. Run into the wind to launch the >kite and add a tail to the spar where the line connects if it needs extra >stability. > >STEP 1 > >Cut out and decorate >Cut two 1200 x 320mm rectangles of Tyvec and divide into quarters with a >pencil and decorate. Cut the spars with a handsaw. >TIP: Make sun designs using marker pen outlines, with poster paint infill, >decorating with glitter or streamers. > >STEP 2 > >Make the connectors >Cut 40mm lengths of 6mm PVC tube with a utility knife. Cut 75% through to >make right-angles, bending the tube back, sliding one end of the split tube >down so it exits via the slot. The remaining section is a coupling for >another spar. > >STEP 3 > >Position the long spars >Lay the sails face down, position the PVC connecters 150mm from the ends of >the spars, with the spars across each quarter. Fold the sails under and tape >the ends to form two boxes with the spars connecting them. > >STEP 4 > >Attach the cross spars >Feed the cross spars into the PCV tube, fitting one end into a connector, >flexing the other into the diagonally opposing connector, and repeating with >each cross spar to fully stretch the kite open. > >STEP 5 > >Finishing the kite >Attach the kite flying line to any one of the spars where it enters the >sail. For balance add a tail to the opposite end of the same spar. TIP Flex >the second spar to make both spars fit. > >Do you have a favourite design that you made when you were a kid and enjoyed >making and flying your kite, then let us know how it all went together. > >Ray > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
