How to Make a Kite

Step 2 Make it:

Buy a pie (or a take-away burger). Personally, I recommend the steak and kidney.

Eat the pie. You just need the bag it came in, and pies aren't really very aerodynamic, anyway.

Open the bag out, carefully, into a sort of box shape.

Cut round the two short sides of the base, and one long side.

Lay the skewer (or straw) inside the last, uncut, long side, sticking out at both ends.

Trim the skewer so that about 1cm is sticking out at each side (remember symmetry), and then stick it in place.

Fold the base of the bag into the bag (over the skewer) and stick it down, trapping the skewer firmly in the crease.

Take a piece of thread, roughly four times as long as the skewer, and attach it to each end of the skewer to form the bridle.

Cut four metre-long tails from the carrier bag and attach them to the four corners at the back end of the kite.

Once your flying line is attached to the centre of the bridle, you are ready for your first flight. If the kite keeps drifting to one side, trim small amounts of tail from that side until it flies level.

Comments

[colorex]

Honor to your name.

[tarasamimi]

mille fois merci encore :D

[Kiteman]

Vous êtes les bienvenus.

[fingers]

step by step photos would help me out a lot..thanks

[Kiteman]

I'll add it to my long "to do" list, but if I'm honest it's a long way down.

[changeable fate]

Bleeding fantastic! I reckon even the five-year-olds in my class at school could do this. Thanks.