Asian Kites: Asian Arts & Crafts for Creative Kids

By Wayne Hosking

Book Overview

Kids will learn how to make colorful kites while exploring Asian culture and history with this easy-to-follow crafts-for-kids book.

The Asian Arts & Crafts for Creative Kids series is the first series, aimed at readers ages 7-12, that provides a fun and educational introduction to Asian culture and art. Through hands-on projects, readers will explore each art--engaging in activities to gain a better understanding of each form.

In this volume, children will learn how to make a kite. Kite making is a unique craft--with projects that are beautiful, functional, and fun! The colorful, easy-to-follow instructions in Asian Kites will have you building--and flying--fifteen different kites from countries all across Asia, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea.

The full-color instructions make it easy to create these beautiful kites out of everyday materials and the resource guide in the back lists plenty of places to purchase supplies. You'll learn to build: Butterfly kite from China Cobra kite from Thailand Mini kite from Malaysia Shield kite from KoreaAn octopus kite from Japan And more! Fun to build and exciting to fly--this book brings a whole new meaning to the term "go fly a kite!"

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804848696
• ISBN13: 9780804848695
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

reviiew of Asian Kites by Wayne Hosking

I own as many kite books written by Wayne Hosking as I can get my hands on. His books are not only well researched but easy to follow. I ranked this book a 4 only because of the difficulty of getting the special materials needed to build these very unique kites. I am anxious to try a few, maybe trying to adapt them to plastic materials and dowels.