What you’ll need: • 3 pages of newspaper • markers, paint, or stickers (to decorate)

Step 1: With the newspaper pages folded, cut out a diamond shape as shown in figure 1 (for a stronger kite, you might want to use a few pages for extra thickness).

Step 2: Tape all around the edges of kite to make it strong.

Step 3: Take two more newspaper pages and roll one from the bottom, and one from the corner, as shown. (Roll them tightly because these are your supports.) Tape them to the kite (as shown).

Step 4: Cut a piece of string just slightly shorter than the width of your kite and tape it (and tie it) to the rolled up paper. It should bow the kite slightly.

Step 5: Cut a piece of string twice the length of your kite, tie to the base of your kite (decorate the end of the tail).

Step 6: Attach the one end of the ball of string to the part of the supports that cross (make sure you do this very well, because the wind will really pull it). Tip: You might like to wrap your string around a paper towel roll so that you have handgrips to fly the kite.

Step 7: Decorate if you’d like, and then go fly a kite!

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Warning! Stay away from electrical lines! If a kite becomes entangled, leave it there. And never fly your kite during a thunderstorm.