A few weeks ago six kids
and myself, Katie, made Mini Diamond Kites! This is how we did it…
- Measure and cut out kite sail using scissors and card stock. Decorate.
- Glue three popsicle stick ends together, using hot glue, to span the width of the kite sail. This is called the spar.
- Glue another three stick ends together to span the length of kite sail. This is called the spine.
- Attach the two together into a cross using the hot glue.
- Cut two pipe cleaners in half. Glue the middle of each pipe cleaner to each end of the cross.
- Twist the pipe cleaners around the popsicle stick ends.
- Use a hole puncher to make four holes, one in each corner of the sail.
- Put the pipe cleaners through the holes, open them up and make four loops.
- Tie a string horizontally from one loop to the other.
- Tie another string vertically, from the top loop going around the horizontal string and tie to the bottom loop.
- Tie the fly line to a coloured popsicle stick, then tie the free end to where the two strings cross.
- The tail should be six times the length of the kite sail. Tie it to the bottom loop.
For materials we used:
- Glue Guns and Glue Gun Sticks
- 6 Popsicle sticks/kite
- 1 Piece of card stock paper
- Embroidery String
- Ribbon
- 1 Colourful popsicle stick
- Colourful plastic string
- Hole punchers
- 2 Pipe cleaners
- Scissors
- Glue stick (optional)
- Crayons, Pencil crayons, Markers etc.
