{"id":871,"date":"2021-05-17T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T08:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=871"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:01:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T08:01:54","slug":"make-your-own-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2021\/05\/17\/make-your-own-kite\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Own Kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials to Make a Simple Paper Kite: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Printer paper<\/li>\n<li>Scissors<\/li>\n<li>Yarn (This worked ok with me, but I wish I used a lighter string.)<\/li>\n<li>Tape<\/li>\n<li>Popsicle Stick<\/li>\n<li>Markers<\/li>\n<li>Hole Puncher<\/li>\n<li>Stapler<\/li>\n<li>Ruler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions to Make a Simple Paper Kite:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Draw a design on both sides of your paper.\u00a0 (Chuck and I did this collaboratively.)\n<p>2.\u00a0 Fold your paper in half. (Half the length.)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Using your ruler, make a mark at 2 1\/2 &#8221; and a mark at\u00a0 3 1\/2&#8243; on the folded edge.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Now curve both corners of your paper down and staple them at the 2 1\/2&#8243; mark. (Don&#8217;t fold them down, make sure the paper is curved.) Your kite should now look like this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-868 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/bild-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/bild-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/bild-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Punch at hole at the 3 1\/2&#8243; mark.\u00a0 Then, cut a long piece of string and tie it to your kite.\n<p>6.\u00a0 Tape the other end of your string down to a popsicle stick.\u00a0 Wind your excess string around the Popsicle stick so it doesn&#8217;t get tangled.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now\u00a0 <strong>go fly your own kite<\/strong>!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It takes a strong gust of wind to lift your kite, but if you run around (or ride your bicycle really fast), your kite will float along beside you too.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-869\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/bild-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/bild-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/bild-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials to Make a Simple Paper Kite: Printer paper Scissors Yarn (This worked ok with me, but I wish I used a lighter string.) Tape Popsicle Stick Markers Hole Puncher Stapler Ruler &nbsp; Directions to Make a Simple Paper Kite:\u00a0 &nbsp; Draw a design on both sides of your paper.\u00a0 (Chuck and I did this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2021\/05\/17\/make-your-own-kite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dMake Your Own Kite\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}