Kite Activities for Kids

April 12, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

How to Make a Kite

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