THE TOOLS
MATERIALS:
- Scissors
- Crepe Paper / Ribbons / Tissue Paper, I love this brand of crepe.
- Glue, can be liquid, stick or dots, I used Dots and Liquid
- Ribbon / Rope / String to hang your kite, you can also use paper
- Magical Rainbow Washi Tape (Optional)
- Markers / Crayons / Colored Pencils
- Cardboard tube (I used a packing tube but a paper towel / toilet paper roll would work too!)
- Fun paper (at least the same size as your cardboard tube)
- Rainbow + Sun ‘Sticker’ template
- 2-3 Cotton Balls
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THEME: Wind Sock Kites
ART LINGO: 3-D Design
APPROX TIME: 30MIN-1 hour
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: BEGINNER
We love our creative community!! We get asked every year to create a fun thousand kid craft for a spring celebration in our city and this year was all about wind sock kites! I love the colorful take on this typical wind sock design we came up with and hope you will enjoy creating it as much as we did!!
You ready to get creative? Go get your materials and Let’s jump in!
STEPS
Step 1:
Measure and cut your paper to be the same height as your cardboard tube. My tube was 7 inches so my 8.5×11 paper was cut to be 7×11. You can use any fun paper you want, you can even watercolor a piece of paper to look like a sunset or clouds (Another project I need to try!) I had some super fun metallic blue paper so I used that. Wrap your paper around the cardboard tube and glue it making sure it is nice and tight and there are no wrinkles in the paper. (See photo 1)
Step 2:
Start to gather some fun kite tails, I used some crepe paper I had plus some iridescent tissue paper (you could also use ribbons). Start cutting strips, you can decide how long you want them, mine are about 9 inches! You want at least 10 long strips (See photo 2), these will be the tails of our kites that blow in the breeze (See photo 3)! Once done, decide what side of the tube you want to be the bottom and glue the strips on the inside going all the way around the inner circle ( I love using glue dots for this but use what you have), this will be how your rainbow kite soars in the wind! (See photo 4)
Step 3:
Print out our sticker template here (Just drag and drop onto your desktop and open to print on an 8.5×11 paper.) We used sticker paper but you don’t need to, just print on whatever paper you have on hand and have fun coloring them in! (See photo 5) You can even come up with your own designs! Once you have created your stickers, cut them out and stick them on your wind kite using just a tiny amount of glue (See photo 6)
Step 4:
Find some cotton balls if you want to make some fun fluffy clouds. I found it works best when you pull the cotton balls apart to make thin whispy cloud shapes (See Photo 7) rather than just sticking the whole cotton ball on the kite. (See Photo 8)
Step 5:
Cut a 2-4 inch piece of string / ribbon / rope and glue it to the inside top end of your kite, making sure to glue the two ends of the rope on opposite sides of your tube; this is how you will hang your kite in the wind or run with it. Be sure to let the glue dry completly before hanging or soaring with your kite
Step 6:
Now is the time to add anything else to your rainbow kite…glitter, more strands of found paper or ribbons, puffy paint!!! I had some magical rainbow washi tape so I used that around the top and bottom part of my kite.
Until next time, stay creative kid!!
xx Mrs. K!
