Make a Kite - Discovery Day Project
March 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: If you have students finish early, which is inevitable on certain modules on certain days, the below site has some good plans on making a simple kite. You can take one bridge balsa wood beam and cut it in half. Also, you will need one grocery bag per kite and some string.
This is a good mini-lesson to add to the Alternative Energy, EPM, or Physics module. Needless to say, it’s fun for us too.
http://www.my-best-kite.com/kite-for-kids.html
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To get the trash bag onto the frame easier, run a piece of string around the diamond of the frame. You can tape the string to each end to make it stay still. Then you can lay the kite frame onto the bag and cut out the shape.
I made a 2′x2′ and a 1′x1′ version of the kite and both flew great. The smaller one is more eradic but does loops and stunts.
I put a twenty foot ribbon on the bigger one as its tail and a ten foot shredded clear trash bag strand on the smaller one.
JHughes