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Kite Activities for Kids

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Kites are a lot of fun to make, to play with and to use in learning activities. With Go Fly a Kite Day (seriously) happening on April 16, it’s a great time to explore osme kite learning activities.

How to Make a Kite

There are lots of different ways to make kites with materials you probably already have at home or in the classroom.

Happiness is Homemade made theirs with paper and wooden dowels, while Buggy and Buddy’s uses newspaper.

Somewhat Simple has a kite made out of a paper bag.

Mainly Homemade shows you how to make a Japanese style fish kite, and Krokotak has instructions for making a bird kite. So cute!

The instructions for making a kite from Red Ted Art and the supplies needed are a bit more complex, but the results are gorgeous. It uses basketweaving reeds as the frame, which is then covered with waxed paper or tissue paper.

Kite Learning Activities

Practice counting and one to one correspondence with these printable kite counting mats from Fun with Mama. Or use the printables from Emma Owl along with pipe cleaners and beads to practice counting.

ABCs of Literacy has a cute printable with kites that will help kids match uppercase and lowercase letters.

Read all about kites and kite flying with this kids’ book list from Growing Book by Book. Talk about the science of kites (and check out more books on kites) with KC Edventures.

Artsy Craftsy Mom has a great collection of crafts and resources about kites linked to the Hindu festival of Sankranti. Her little kite cookies would be great for a snack after a day of kite making and flying! I also love the paper kite mobile.

Or make an art project using black glue like this one from I Heart Crafty Things.

Need even more kite activity ideas? Preschool Plan It has a whole unit on kites including activities, ideas for centers and circle time and more.

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Learning about Snow

Not all of us live where there is a lot of snow in the winter (or even where it is winter as I write this, but it can still be fun to learn about snow, what it is and why it falls, so let’s get into it!

First, let’s talk snowflake science with The Homeschool Scientist. They have a free prinatble snowflake science less that’s more than 60 pages long and good for multiple grade levels. The blog post linked here includes some fun snow facts, information about how snowflakes form and why they are both six-sided and (probably) all different.

Expressive Monkey has a great post about how snowflakes are formed and why they have six arms, and also shows some of the pictures taken by W. A. Bentley in the 1920s (more on him below).

You can also grab a free snow facts worksheet with space for kids to draw their own unique snowflakes from Education.com. Simple Living Creative Learning also has a paid snow study resource set that includes things like different types of snowflakes, the snow cycle, symmetry drawing with snowflakes, tips for snow safety, snow-related vocabulary and more.

Homeschool Superfreak has another great page for learning about snowflakes, which includes information about Snowflake Bentley, a great book to read (and person to learn about). It includes lesson plan ideas and links to activities.

Speaking of activities, if you happen to have snow around you can make snow ice cream or maple candy, paint on snow or with snow, or do some snow science experiments. If you get a ton of snow you could maybe even build an igloo or snow structure.

If you don’t get snow you can learn about how animals keep warm in the snow and cold temperatures with this experiment from I Can Teach My Child. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls can help you learn why big paws (or snowshoes) make it easier to walk in the snow. Or make a snowstorm in a jar like this one from MomBrite.

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