How to make handmade kites

Material preparation: kite paper, kite wood and rope.

Operating steps:

1. Prepare a tough and light piece of paper, 50 cm long and 30 cm wide. The paper used to make traditional kites is generally cotton, rice paper, leather paper and so on. , and ready to stick.

2. Prepare two pieces of wood, one is 30 cm long and the other is 50 cm long, fold them into a cross and tie them with a rope.

3. The top of the cross is15cm high and the bottom is 35cm high. Stick the prepared paper on the cross with a glue gun, cut off the excess parts, and then prepare two nylon ropes.

4. Tie both ends of a rope to both ends of a short piece of wood, and then tie one end of a slightly longer nylon rope to the center of this nylon rope. When you are ready to fly, connect a light string to the end of the nylon rope, so that the kite will fly higher and higher.

Introduction to kites:

1. Kites were invented in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty more than 2000 years ago. According to legend, Mo Zhai made wooden birds out of wood, which took three years to develop, and was the earliest origin of human kites.

2. Later, Lu Ban used bamboo to improve the materials of kites in Mo Zhai. It was not until Cai Lun improved papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty that kites were made of paper, which was called "paper kites".

3. Kites are made of paste, paper cutters, bamboo sticks, yarn strips, horse-drawn paper, thread and other items. Flying kites became a tool to transmit information in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but in the Song Dynasty, flying kites became a favorite outdoor activity, which spread to Europe in A.D. 1600.