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10 May

How to Make a Garbage Bag Kite

 

 

How to Make a Kite using a Garbage Bag by 2 Little Hooligans
Hi I’m Christina and I blog over at 2 little hooligans. I’m so excited to be here today and to share my craftiness with all of you! I’m a stay at home mom to three little ones, ages 4, 2 and 1. We live in northern New Hampshire in our 1870’s farmhouse that we are currently renovating…while living in it! Besides renovating our home, we are raising 2 pigs (Wilbur & Ray), 35 broilers and 6 layers. We spend our days playing outside, crafting, watching the animals and playing in the gardens. We live a very simple life and that is just how we like it! My blog is full of my crafty ideas, tutorials, recipes and pictures of my ridiculously adorable kiddo’s! I hope you all get the chance to stop by and said Hi. I love meeting other crafty women and sharing our ideas and inspirations with one another. And a big “thank you” to Becky for asking me to join all of you today!
When Becky first asked me to join all of you today I knew exactly what I was going to make…but the kiddo’s had another idea. I was going to share a tutorial for our favorite bug boxes but instead the kiddo’s wanted to make a kite. So today, we are making a kite. Really this is something I have been wanting to try for months now. It is so quick and easy to make your own kite, all you need is a few materials and a windy day.

So let’s get started!

Materials Needed:

*2 skinny wooden dowels from the hardware store *1 garbage bag *duck tape *ribbons and string Cut one of the dowels 21″ long and keep the other dowel full length for now. Take the 21″ dowel and center horizontally it onto the larger dowel 9″ down from the top of the longer dowel. My dowel ended up being 10 1/2″in from the sides when centered. Secure the dowels in place by wrapping string or ribbon around the dowels in the middle. Make sure that they make a straight cross and are as even as possible. Take and lay your garbage bag flat on the floor. Place your cross on top of the bag. You want the top of your cross to be even with the top of your bag. Mark your wooden dowel where you want to cut the excess part off. I wanted to cut the drawstring part off from my kite, so I measure just above where the drawstring area stopped and cut my dowel there. Cut the dowel with a pair of sharp kitchen scissors. Should look like this now.

Take some duck tape and tape it around all of the edges of the dowels. This will keep the dowels from making holes into your kite. Now lay the cross onto the bag. Measure to make sure you have it evenly spaced on the sides and as close to the top of the bag as possible. Tape the dowel in place at the edges of each of the dowels. Now take and fold the top edges of the garbage bag in. Try and keep them neatly folded and even. Place tape on the front. And fold it over neatly, like so. Repeat with the other side of the kite. Your kite should look like this now. Cut off the drawstring part if your bag has one. Tape the bottom of the bag. Tie some ribbons onto the bottom of the kite.

Tie a piece of string or ribbon onto the kite just above the center of the cross. Wait for a windy day and enjoy! Hope you all get a chance to stop by my blog and take a little peek. Thanks again Becky for having me here today!

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Comments

  1. Tricia The Good Mama says

    August 25, 2014 at 12:34 AM

    This is great! I’m going to try this out with my son. It doesn’t look too difficult.

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  2. Kathy says

    April 2, 2020 at 3:05 PM

    stumbled on this searching for things to make with the kids while in this covid-19 social distancing situation. thanks! Should be fun!

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