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Do You Know How To Make A kite?

Why the subject on Kite Making in the first place?

Love to fly kite? Love to know how to make a kite?

What could there possibly be to write about how to make and fly kites? After all, making and flying a kite are quite simple operations! One has only to tie together two sticks at right angles, cover them with paper or cloth, and add a tail! Of course, one must not forget a long piece of string, called the kite line. Having done these things, one has only to throw the kite up into the air on a suitably windy day and away it flies! Or does it?

Not quite.

Here, then, is a hobby which provides pleasure, entertainment, and education all the year round. The long winter evenings present an opportunity for artistic minds and busy hands to make the kites which can be flown during the bright summer evenings and at many other times during the year. These are the main things, but, as we shall discover, they are accompanied by many other enjoyable activities. In particular, as one looks round in an attempt to forecast flying conditions, one is reminded of the wonder and the beauty of the world in which we live.
"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky"
So wrote the poet, Wordsworth, and something of that same feeling will come over us as we see our kites—those kites which we have made with our own hands—flying so proudly in the sky above.