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High-Flying Fun

If you are looking for an easy and affordable way to keep your kids busy this summer, grab a kite and head outdoors.  Kite-flying is a breeze when you’ve got the entire family working together to bring your colorful flying machine to life.  Getting a kite to take flight also lends itself to a slew of educational opportunities.  Kids can get hands-on lessons in math, science, history and geography all while having fun.  What’s more, there’s something to be said about the sense of pride a child feels when she gets a kite to dance across the summer sky. Fortunately, … Continue reading →

Go Fly a Kite

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One of our favorite movies these days is Mary Poppins. We tend to watch the same movie ad infinitum until the adults in the family as completely sick of it, and the child is not. At the end of Mary Poppins is the fabulous song “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” and we’ve certainly been doing a lot of that these days too. A few weeks ago my daughter went to a heritage fair and built her own kite, and today at preschool she built another one. The fact that we have no wind here until later in the evening poses … Continue reading →

Grab Your Kites!

Do you know where your kids’ kites are? April is National Kite Month and one of my family’s most favorite times of the year. (Now, if we could only get the snow to melt and the temperatures to rise above freezing we’d really be in business.) Spring is one of the best times to get out and let your kite carve through the crisp April air. And while you don’t have to travel any farther than your own backyard (if it is large enough) to set your kite soaring there are some places around the country that kite-flying experts consider … Continue reading →