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Kim Trimboli
Posted May 14, 2002
Art Rotation for Pentecost (Kites!)
Classes will be making and flying kites - the wind reminds us of the Holy Spirit.
Read Acts 2:1-41 - It is a long passage, but full of signs, symbols & action. As the kids to listen with their senses: a group of kids to listen for what the people could hear, a group listening for what they could see, a group for feel, a group for taste and smell. Have them report what they discovered.
Make Kites - as a decorating idea (particularly if the weather will not be good enough to go outside), have them draw, color, create symbols of the holy spirit on the kite. Wind, Flame, Dove are popular symbols. The colors of flame would be appropriate as well, if they don’t want to draw.
If time and weather allow, take the kits outside and try them out! If the yard is too wet, the back area of the parking lot should be fine.
Big Wind Kite Factory, Moloka'i, Hawai'i presents:
20 Kids * 20 Kites * 20 Minutes
Uncle Jonathan's easiest classroom kites ever. www.aloha.net/~bigwind/20kidskites.html
For over 15 years the Big Wind Kite Factory has been giving kite making classes for the children on the island of Moloka'i in Hawai'i. These are the complete time tested instructions to get 20 kids making their own kites and flying them in 20 minutes.
Material list:
- 20 sheets of brightly colored 8 1/2" x 11" typing paper.
- 20 8" bamboo bar-b-que shishkabab sticks.
- 1 roll of florescent surveyor's flagging plastic tape. Available at any hardware store. A plastic bag cut in a 1" wide spiral all around will also make a great tail. Or streamers…
- 1 roll 1/2"wide masking tape or any type of plastic tape..
- 1 roll of string. (At least 200', 6 to 10 feet for each child.)
- 20 pieces of 1"x 3" cardboard on which to wind the string.
- Scissors.
- Hole punch. (optional)
Directions:
- Fold a sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" paper in half to 8 1/2" x 5 1/2".
- Fold again along the diagonal line A in Fig.2.
- Fold back one side forming kite shape in Fig.3 and place tape firmly along fold line AB.(No stick is needed here because the fold stiffins the paper and acts like a spine.)
- Place bar-b-que stick from point C to D and tape it down firmly.
- Cut off 6 to 10 feet of plastic ribbon and tape it to the bottom of the kite at B.
- Flip kite over onto its back and fold the front flap back and forth until it stands straight up.(Otherwise it acts like a rudder and the kite spins around in circles.)
- Punch a hole in the flap at E, about 1/3 down from the top point A.
- Tie one end of the string to the hole and wind the other end onto the cardboard string winder. When you are in Hawai'i please be sure and drop in for one of our factory tours.
- There's one starting in about 3 minutes.
Our email address is bigwind@aloha.net> us your comments or requests for additonal information
Kite flying was first documented in the South Sea Island by fishermen, who used to attach bait to the tail of a kite and web and then wait to catch a fish.
Today, kite flying is more than just a passing fancy or means of catching dinner. Many have made their careers out of constructing and flying kites.
mabethea
Posted May 06, 2008
Pentecost/Holy Spirit Wind Socks
Materials:
- Red bags
- Red ribbon (18” strips)
- Red, orange, yellow crepe paper streamers
(12” strips) - Descending Dove symbols
- Glue Sticks
- Scissors
- Hole punchers
- Pencils
- Carefully cut off just the bottom panel of the bag
- Fold over on the crease so that the bottom is now the reinforced top
- Hole punch one hole in each long side of the folded top
- Write your name inside the windsock
- Attach the red ribbon to the bag by tying ends in holes
- With a glue stick, glue one dove symbol to one side of the bag
- Cut 3 12” strips of each of the crepe paper streamers (red, orange, and yellow)
- Using glue stick, glue the strips inside and around the bottom of the windsock, alternating colors.
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