4 Kite Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three kite crafts that always work

Paper bag kiteDecorate, tape streamers, run outsidePaper diamond kiteCrayons, stickers, a yarn tailLetter K kiteLetter K with kites flying off it

4 kite crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Letter K kite

The child glues a K to paper and adds diamond paper kites with string tails flying from its arms.

You need: blue construction paper, red paper, white yarn, yellow paper, white paper, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut a large capital K from blue paper and a red diamond. Your child glues the K on the white sheet.
2. Glue the red diamond on the tip of the upper right arm of the K.
3. Glue the white yarn from the bottom point of the diamond down along the arm as the kite tail.
4. Cut small yellow bows and glue them along the yarn.

2. Pasta kite

The child glues spaghetti into a diamond outline, adds a string tail with bow-tie pasta bows and paints it.

You need: dry spaghetti, dry bow-tie pasta, white string, red and yellow poster paint, white glue, light blue paper

How to make it

1. Glue 4 spaghetti pieces on the blue paper as a diamond outline. Glue 2 more across the inside as a cross.
2. Let the glue dry well.
3. Your child paints the inside of the diamond red.
4. Glue the string from the bottom point of the diamond, curving down the page as a tail.
5. Glue bow-tie pasta along the string and dab them with yellow paint.

3. Paper bag kite

The child decorates a paper lunch bag, tapes streamers to the open end and a string to the other, then runs with it outside.

You need: 1 brown paper lunch bag, crayons, round stickers, crepe streamers, 1 long piece of yarn, tape

How to make it

1. Your child scribbles on the bag with crayons and sticks on round stickers.
2. Tape the streamers inside the open end so they trail out.
3. Tape the yarn to the middle of the closed bottom.
4. Hold the yarn and run outside with your child.

4. Paper diamond kite

The child decorates a paper diamond with crayons, stickers or tissue, then adds a yarn tail with paper bows.

You need: yellow construction paper, light blue paper, crayons, 1 long piece of brown yarn, paper strips for bows, glue

How to make it

1. You cut a large diamond from yellow paper. Your child decorates it with crayon scribbles and a few shapes.
2. Glue it near the top of the light blue sheet with one point down.
3. Glue the yarn from the bottom point down the sheet in a loose wavy line as the tail.
4. Pinch paper strips in the middle into small bows. Your child glues them along the tail.

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Kite crafts for 3 year olds

One of these a young three can do almost alone: Paper bag kite. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest.

Kite crafts with a 3 or 4 year old: one flies, three hang

Start with the paper bag kite on a windy day. Decorate inside, tape streamers on, then go out and run. It is the one that moves.

A three can decorate the bag and the paper diamond with crayons and stickers. Gluing spaghetti on a line and tying bows onto a tail need an adult or a five.

The letter K kite is for the K sound. Say kuh, kite as the K goes down, then again as each small kite flies off its arms.

The paper kites hang on a window with the tails trailing down. The pasta kite needs a flat spot to dry overnight before it goes up.

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