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You're bored. You're desperate to fly a kite, but it's raining.
Have a pizza while you read the rest of these instructions.
Have a pizza while you read the rest of these instructions.
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Signing UpStep 1Materials and tools.
You will need:
The polystyrene disc from under a store-bought pizza.
Sharp knife ("X-acto" or similar. The ones I use come under the heading of "similar" - they cost me £1.99 ($3-$4) from my local Morrisons Supermarket).
Scissors.
Sticky tape. You may need to use duct tape: if your pizza base is greasy, normal tape sometimes won't stick.
Sewing thread.
Wool.
Optional: paper template. I needed to use the template because my pizza base was black, and so is my pen. Some bases are white, and you can draw your pattern directly onto them.
The polystyrene disc from under a store-bought pizza.
Sharp knife ("X-acto" or similar. The ones I use come under the heading of "similar" - they cost me £1.99 ($3-$4) from my local Morrisons Supermarket).
Scissors.
Sticky tape. You may need to use duct tape: if your pizza base is greasy, normal tape sometimes won't stick.
Sewing thread.
Wool.
Optional: paper template. I needed to use the template because my pizza base was black, and so is my pen. Some bases are white, and you can draw your pattern directly onto them.
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It is polystyrene (very light, yet rigid), and I did not "just tie a piece of string to it", I attached a thread to a designed location. Watch the video - the kite flies above the level of the anchor. That is, it exhibits lift, known colloquially as "it flies".
I could have flown the kite much more successfully outdoors, but I wanted to be a little different (only a little, though, as this is how microkite builders fly their creations).
With the intro picture I thought the kite was gonna look like a slice of pizza though. lol
Meat trays would certainly work, as would some disposable picnic plates - all it really needs is a flat sheet of expanded polystyrene, or any other similarly light and rigid material.
You could make it to include the curves at the edges, but you'd have to be very careful to make the curves absolutely symmetrical,