Go Fly a Kite

Not much rubbish here gets wasted by throwing it away. Most things have the possibility for much more than one use. When Katie and I buy are groceries we always save the plastic bags. Sometimes the boys want to use them to roll up into a soccer ball (when I won’t let them use the nice one), or use them as a bag to carry their notebooks for school. Yesterday they all came by asking for a few “plastics” each. They took a few sticks and turned it into a kite. They then took the woven bags that we were storing the maize in, and unraveled some parts of them to make some string. A new piece of string had to be tied on about every six feet or so.

Here is a picture of Bobo (2^nd grade) getting his kite started in the air.

Here is one that Boyd (5^th grade) had built. All the other boys said that He was the professional, and his was the highest flying kite.