- [Narrator] This module is sponsored by
the Children Services Council of Broward County.
- Hi!
- Well good morning!
- Good morning!
- Hi I'm Dan the Kite Man.
- I'm Penny and these are the Kid Vision VPK kids.
And we're here today to find out about kites.
- Well, welcome. Come on over let's show you some.
- Okay!
- Welcome guys! So let me show you some kites
that we do have here.
Some of our most popular kites are very traditional
diamond kites.
- [Penny] How many sides does a diamond have?
- Four!
- Can we see that kite for a second?
- Absolutely.
- What shape is this?
- A diamond!
- Diamond, can you count the sides?
- One, two, three, four.
- A diamond has how many sides?
- Four!
- Four, that's a beautiful shape.
What other kinds do you have?
- Another very popular kite is a delta wing kite,
also a triangle kite.
- Let's count the sides of this kite. Ready?
- One, two, three.
- So how many sides does a triangle have?
- Three!
- Three, what shape is that kite?
- A triangle!
- It's a triangle kite, that's correct.
Because it has three sides.
So what kind of kites did we see?
- [Children] A triangle kite and a diamond shaped kite.
- Those are great kites!
- So this is a classic diamond kite, some important parts.
Cause the kite is just a tethered aircraft.
On here we have the bridle,
this is where your kite line goes.
We have a frame that's on the back of the kite.
That's what gives it its shape.
Its spine and its spreader bars in the dihedral angle
that gives it its proper angle.
And most importantly on this kite is the tail.
- Let's see if we can remember the names of those parts.
- Do you remember what this was?
- Bridal!
- This was?
- Frame!
- Important thing on the bottom?
- Tail!
- What is the bridal used for?
- Its used to put the kite string on.
- Right.
- [Penny] What is this called?
- A frame.
- [Penny] A frame and what does the frame do?
- It holds the kite and keeps it wide.
- [Penny] That's right and what is this called?
- The tail!
- The tail is very important because its
what makes this kite very stable.
Makes it fly in the right direction.
- So it makes it stable. What does the tail do?
- Stable.
- Stable!
- Come on let's go fly the diamond kite!
- Yes! Let's fly the kite!
- [Dan] It's very important that we find
the right conditions to fly a kite.
To be successful, so the first thing we wanna do
is find a wide, open space without many trees or buildings.
Or particularly power lines or anything that's gonna
obstruct wind or be dangerous.
Most kites in general like a nice, fresh breeze.
Ya know, you need some wind.
But if it's too windy you can have like a hurricane
or a tornado might be just too much wind.
So you want a nice, fresh breeze
in mile per hour we'd say five to fifteen is really good.
Whoever's flying the kite is gonna have the handle
in their hand and the wind at their back.
And if there's not enough wind you may have to
run a bit to get the kite launched
into the air high enough where it gets appropriate wind
or strong enough wind to get the best wind
to keep that kite flying.
- Okay she's gonna let the kite go
and you're gonna fly it.
I can feel the wind on my back. - [Dan] I feel it.
- Can you feel the wind on your back?
- Yeah!
- Okay ready? One, two, three go!
- [Penny] Woo! Run fast!
[Light Music]
- [Penny] Put the wind at your back! The wind at your back!
- Okay,
hold it up.
- One, two, three go!
[Calm Music]
- [Dan] There she goes!
- Look, what shape is our kite?
- A diamond!
- [Penny] It's a diamond, what about that kite up there,
with the red tail?
- [Children] A triangle!
- [Dan] Triangle! - [Penny] It's a triangle!
That's right, it's a triangle!
What shape is that?
- [Penny] Look over there. Good.
- A triangle!
- [Penny] It's a triangle!
We'd like to make some kites.
Can you show us how to make a kite?
- I'd love to! We're gonna make a simple kite.
Out of a regular sheet of eight and half
by eleven typing paper.
The materials we need for this:
are gonna be a hole punch, a drinking straw, a stapler,
some kite line or even sewing thread,
and we're using a crepe paper for the tail.
But you can simply use any type
of long paper or plastic for that.
Now to make the kite,
we're simply on this kite we pre-printed
folding lines on here. Which is nice.
But you can also get where to put the lines
on your website at VPK.
So we're simply gonna take this sheet of paper
and fold it in half like so.
And at this point I'm gonna take advantage of the fold.
Cause we have already marked where our little black dot,
where we're gonna put our hole to tie our string on later.
So I'm gonna take advantage of this moment
to punch a hole right in there.
Now we'll simply fold out along the thin line.
One wing over, flip the entire kite over, and now
we're on the other wing.
We're gonna fold this over to match.
Now if we open this back up, we're gonna have
what kind of looks like a paper airplane.
[Child Laughs]
- [Dan] This gives us an opportunity to take
our drinking straw and we have a little line here
that says staple straw.
So on the back side of that we're gonna line up
our kite and staple that straw.
- [Penny] What would we call that?
Do you remember what was this called?
- [Child] A frame!
- [Dan] That's right. - [Penny] Right!
We're creating a frame.
- [Dan] Our frame for our kite here
is a simple drinking straw.
Now so we simply staple on there to secure it.
And so now we have our kite.
This one has a keel instead of a bridle.
So, at this moment we can take
what we're using for our kite line.
And we're gonna put it in the hole
that we punched in our keel. We'll simply tie-
- [Penny] Do you remember that?
Remember the bridle part of our kite?
- [Dan] Right.
- [Penny] In this one it's called the keel,
but it's where he's tying the string in the kite.
- [Dan] So, we've tied our string to the keel.
And we'll need a little piece of tail,
actually a good length of tail today.
Goes on the back of the kite for stability.
So we can simply tuck that into the fold there
and staple it on. And guess what guys?
We have just made a kite that is ready to fly.
- What was the first direction? You need what?
- [Children] Paper!
- [Penny] And the second thing you're going to do?
Is you're going to?
- [Children] Fold it!
- [Penny] Fold it. Punch a hole.
After you punch a hole in it?
- [Child] Get the drinking straw and you put it on it.
- Why don't we start by letting you color your kite?
- [Penny] You're making a beautiful picture. - [Dan] Wow.
Another big circle, the circles look really nice.
[Soft Music]
- Great! Your kite is ready.
- My kite too!
- Your kite too? You too? Let's go kite flying!
[Lively Music]
- It's working, just perfect.
- Thank you Dan the Kite Man!
We had a great time learning about kites today!
- It was great having you guys out.
And you're really good kite flyers!
- Did you have a good time?
- Yes!
- Yes, say thank you!
- Thank you!
- Enjoy your kite flying!
- Bye!
- Bye, bye!
- Bye!
Come on guys.
- Bye, bye!