SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO
The kite season Is now on, and you will be.wantIng to make your kite, If, you follow the directions below you will find it quite easy. ' You will need thin strips of wood, and ordinary tough' lunch paper (grease proof). You can buy large sheets of this for a penny or two at any grocery store or a stationer's. This grease-proof paper . can be ornamented in the. way shown below: You will then have a novel kite that will look well as it goes up.. "■■ ••■ . Here are : the directions., follow them ; step by step. '•• 1 and 2: Tie two thin sticks tpgether. at the centre, '."•' '<•' -3: Tie a string about. the ends of the sticks.
MAKE YOUR OWN RITE
4; Place frame upon a of strong lunch paper, and trace round the outline. \ '■ ■5: Add 1 Jin margin to the pattern:
6; Draw, a design on half of - the paper,' fold down the dotted line. Trace over on to the other half and colour. ■ :•- ... . 1 7: Cut . out corners. • - ~ ( ; 8; Paste paper to the. kite frame. 9: Tie strings to the kite. - - • 10: Add the tail. •
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22805, 2 September 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)
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