A little over a month ago I shared a tutorial over at U Create with kids on how to make a kite from a garbage bag. It is so quick and easy to make your own kite, all you need is a few materials and a windy day.
Garbage Bag Kit Tutorial
Materials Needed:
*1 garbage bag
*duck tape
*ribbons and string
Cut one of the dowels 21″ long and keep the other dowel full length for now. Take the 21″ dowel and center horizontally it onto the larger dowel 9″ down from the top of the longer dowel. My dowel ended up being 10 1/2″in from the sides when centered. Secure the dowels in place by wrapping string or ribbon around the dowels in the middle. Make sure that they make a straight cross and are as even as possible.
Take and lay your garbage bag flat on the floor. Place your cross on top of the bag. You want the top of your cross to be even with the top of your bag.
Mark your wooden dowel where you want to cut the excess part off. I wanted to cut the drawstring part off from my kite, so I measure just above where the drawstring area stopped and cut my dowel there.
Cut the dowel with a pair of sharp kitchen scissors. Should look like this now.
Take some duck tape and tape it around all of the edges of the dowels. This will keep the dowels from making holes into your kite.
Now lay the cross onto the bag. Measure to make sure you have it evenly spaced on the sides and as close to the top of the bag as possible. Tape the dowel in place at the edges of each of the dowels.
Now take and fold the top edges of the garbage bag in. Try and keep them neatly folded and even. Place tape on the front.
And fold it over neatly, like so.
Repeat with the other side of the kite.
Your kite should look like this now.
Cut off the drawstring part if your bag has one.
Tape the bottom of the bag.
Tie some ribbons onto the bottom of the kite.
Tie a piece of string or ribbon onto the kite just above the center of the cross.
Wait for a windy day and enjoy!
how cute is that!! This is a great idea! Love it!!
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This is the coolest post christina! I love it!!!
very cute, sounds like a project to take to the beach!
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i think, it´s better to trn around he kite, that ta sail is on top of the dovels and place a piece of tape on the spot, where the crosspoint of the dovels is behint.
then use a needle to poke the string through the taped spot of the sail and tie it to the dovels.
this makes the side with the string is now the front and the side with the dovels is the backside.
for the beginning you can open the bag and cut along the sides and bottom.
so you get a single layer of foil for the kite-sail.
so the kite has less wight.
this way you can make two kites from one bag or use the second piece to cut ribbbons for the tail.
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