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Create a Color Wonder Kite

Create a Color Wonder Kite

Children will create a beautiful kite to celebrate spring.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

Gather all the supplies needed to bring your craft ideas to life! From paints and markers to glue and scissors, our crafts section has everything to spark creativity and make every project truly special.

  • Tape
  • Yarn

Steps

  • Step 1

    Explain that you can't see air, but you can see its effect when the wind blows. Ask children if they can think of any examples of this, such as tree branches swaying, a weathervane twirling, or a kite floating and being kept aloft in the sky.

  • Step 2

    Have children create a colorful kite using Color Wonder paper and markers. This is a mess-free medium; the markers will only draw on the special Color Wonder paper, and they can't make marks with these markers on other surfaces.

  • Step 3

    Ask children to (or help them) cut a diamond-shape out of the Color Wonder paper. They can use the scraps from that to cut out small bow shapes. Then have them decorate the diamond-shaped kite and the bows with the special Color Wonder markers. Tape a piece of yarn to the kite and tape the bows to that tail.

  • Step 4

    Take the kites outdoors on a breezy day and have the students discuss their observations of how air is moving based on how the kites fly.

Standards

ARTS: Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials and ideas in self-directed, creative art making.

SCI: Convey designs through sketches, detailed drawings, or physical models to communicate ideas and solutions.

Adaptations

Read a book to the class such as "Stuck" by Oliver Jeffers about a kite that gets stuck in a tree or "Biscuit Flies a Kite" by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Pat Schories.

Kites have four sides. What other objects can children think of that have four sides?