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Make a kite out of a garbage bag:
Any piece of soft plastic will do. Shower curtains, painting tarps, garbage bags . . . Kites that start out as simple shapes and can become very complex structures.You'll need:
- garbage bag
- thick tape
- small dowel rods
- hole punch
- kite string
- Triangle kite pattern
- Semi-circle kite pattern
trace pattern onto plastic
cut plastic
place dowels on plastic
cut dowels to fit kite
tape dowels to plastic
punch a hole for string
punch a hole for string
tape on plastic tails
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How does a tail change the way a kite flies? Try making kites out of other materials. How could you measure how high your kite flies? |
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