Margaret Greger

Kites for Everyone (eBook, ePUB)

How to Make and Fly Them

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The most influential kitemaker you never heard of." American Kite. This thorough guide by an expert kitemaker includes easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions for creating and flying more than fifty kites. An easy and comprehensive introduction for anyone interested in these amazing flyers, the book opens with the history and science of kites, followed by a section on kite construction and flying. Organized according to kite types, Greger's book includes chapters on everything from simple bag kites to Vietnamese, Snake, Dutch, Dragon, Bullet, Delta, and Flowform flyers. She even tells how to make windsocks and toy parachutes!
The book is a great aid for classroom teachers, camp counselors, and parents, offering practical suggestions on everything from setting up a workspace and observing safety rules to launching the kites and bringing them in. "Kites for Everyone is like having a veteran kite maker in the classroom," says Science and Children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486318004
• Artikelnr.: 43814418

Autorenporträt

Reprint of the Richland, Washington, 2003 edition.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Classroom Kites Wind Scale Flying, Bridles, Lines, Knots,
Reels Kite Directory Kites to Make Vietnamese Kites Vietnamese Kite
Vietnamese Bag Kite Snake Kites Siamese Snake Kite Bag Snake Kite Plastic
Snake Kite Fabric Snake Kite Sled Kites Sled Kites Kite Safety Trashbag
Sled Kite Mini-Sled Kite Stapled Sled Kite Fabric Hornbeam Sled Kite
Bookmark Sled Kite Bullet Kites Mini Bullet Kite Plastic Bullet Kite Fabric
Bullet Kite Square Kites Whole Bag Kite Plastic Fantasmo Kite Fabric Square
Kite and Diamond Kites Eddy Kites Eddy Kites Conover Eddy Kite Traditional
Eddy Kite Lee Toy's Eddy Kite Delta Kites Delta Kites Little Delta Kite
One-Piece Delta Kite Tony Cyphert's Delta Kite Joseph Lee Delta Bird Kite
Harper's Ferry Delta Kite Zephyr Delta Kite Box Kites Trashbag Box Kite
Mini Winged Box Kite Fabric Box Kites French Military Kite Winged Square
Box Kite Corner and Facet Kites Single-Cell Corner Kite Two-Cell Corner
Kite Facet Kites, General Four-sided Facet Kite Five-sided Facet Kite Flow
Form Kites Flow Form Kite Flow Form Kite Instructions Kite Tails, Bags, and
Windsocks Tails Kite Bags Streamer Windsock Ribbon Windsock Fabric Windsock
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