Over 100 Spring Kite Ideas for Classroom Teachers

Kite Crafting/Craft for Students:

1. DIY - insect shaped home made kites 
2. brown paper bag kites
3. Students design their own Sumi e Kites
4. Two free butterfly kite patterns from Kathy Grimm
5. Kite banner craft with drinking straws
6. A colorful kite with a tissue paper tail
7. Kid's kite craft tutorial
8. finger kites from The Mother Lode
9. quick colorful kites from crayola.com
10. DIY Sankranti kite craft
11. Japanese Carp Kite Craft
12. Olive The Owl Kite Crafts
13. Make miniature bird kites
14. How to run a kite workshop
15. Kite workshop products
16. Kite plans
17. Kite building
18. Kite Workshops
19. 20 Kids - 20 Kites - 20 Minutes
20. Bird and tiger kite kits
21. Learn to make a kite
22. Kite kits
23. Plans and kits

24. Book for teachers with kite plans (in PDF)

    Spanish Version (in PDF)

25. Kite Workshop DVDs

26. Kite-making retreats:

    Fort Worden Kitemakers Retreat

    Oregon Kitemakers Retreat

    Junction Kitemakers Retreat

    Maryland MAKR

27. AKA kite plans
28. Making kites from recycled materials

Kite Designs and Kites In Flight On Video:

1. Sophie's World: Paper Bag Kites
2. Amazing Kites at the International Kite Festival
3. How to make a paper kite
4. Japanese Kite Festival at Seal Beach
5. Rhee Ki-tai's Kite Craft
6. Kite Festival in Cervia, Italy
7. How to make a paper kite that flies in five minutes
8. How To Make a Paper Kite - from eHowArtsAndCrafts
9. How to Make a Kite in 5 Minutes
10. How to make a Tetrahedral Kite
11. Box Kite Construction
12. Sunderland kite festival 2010
13. Sled kite construction
14. Dragon kite construction
15. Ancient China - Kite Making
16. How to make a Tibetan fighter kite
17. The coolest kite ever! Kool Kite
18. Kite Aerial Photography
19. Kite Festivals on DVD
20. Activity TV kite videos
21. Kite Workshops on DVD
22. KiteLife Video Archives
23. KiteCraft and kite tournaments public domain resource

High as A Kite, Kite Flying Bulletin Boards:

1. "Soar With A Good Book This Summer" library bulletin board
2. 3D Kites bulletin board from Gloria Weaver
3. Soaring To 1rst Grade
4. Escaping kites bulletin board
5. Hand print flowers and kites bulletin board
6. Flying High With God's Word

Kite Themed Displays, Activities Etc:

1. Food Group Kites
2. Flying High With Poetry
3. Narrative Writing Diamond Freebie
4. Spring Shapes Kite Glyph for Math and Literacy Fun
5. My Kite Booklet
6. Kite Fact Families
7. Tail Acrostic Poems
8. Kites Go To School

9. AKA Rule Books, Manuals, Safety Guidelines, Pamphlets

10. Kite safety
11. Knots for kites
12. National Kite Month (Every April)
13. Kite stores - where to buy a kite
14. Curious George kite - a PDF File from PBS
15. Miniature Kites
16. Kites Geography
17. Name That Kite!
18. Fun Kite Games

Kite History:

1. Kite History
2. World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame
3. Kite Museum in India
4. Kite history and photo gallery
5. Kite history
6. Kite history timeline
7. WOKIPI Discovery

Kite Organizations:

1. Drachen Foundation
2. The American Kitefliers Association
3. STACK Central (Europe Sport Kites)
4. STACK (UK Sport Kites)
5. AJSKA - All Japan Sport Kite Association (english)
6. List of Kite Clubs (maintained by Troy Gunn)
7. Sky Sports Kite Club India

More Kite Themed Lesson Plans:

1. Butterfly Kite Lesson Plan (pdf)

2. Kites in the Classroom book for teachers (in PDF)

   Spanish Version (in PDF)

3. Education World - Kite Lesson
4. Kites as an educational tool
5. The names of the parts of a kite
6. Kites Thematic Unit, Grades 4-6
7. Kite Lessons, Grades K-8
8. How to fly a kite
9. Classroom lessons

Magazines and Newsletters for Kite Enthusiasts:

1. Kiting magazine (with back issues)
2. Kitelife magazine (with back issues)
3. Kite Lines magazine (back issues)
4. Drachen Journal
5. Drachen Discourse Magazine
6. Stunt Kite Quarterly
7. For periodic newsletters AKA

The Science and Math of Kites:

1. Why does a kite fly?
2. The principles of aeronautics
3. Wind in the atmosphere
4. The forces on a kite
5. Forces of Flight (in PDF)
6. Lift is debated
7. Newton's First Law applied to kites
8. Kite Math
9. Interactive kite modeler

How to Properly Fly a Kite:

1. Book with the details of buying, setting up, flying (in PDF)
2. How to fly a kite
3. Professor Kites Flying Tips
4. Kite Flying 101
5. Learn to Fly Kites
6. Kite launch and flight
7. Dual-line basics
8. Dual-line skills
9. Dual-line kite tricks
10. Quad-line kite tricks