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Sankranti Kite craft

Shruti Acharya | January 14, 2013 | 7 Comments

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This week was sankranti special at the craft class.
From Wikipedia
Makar Sankranti is one of the most auspicious occasions for the Hindus, and is celebrated in almost all parts of the country in myriad cultural forms, with great devotion, fervour and gaiety. It is a harvest festival.
Makar Sankranti is the day when the glorious Sun-God begins its ascendancy and entry into the Northern Hemisphere and thus it signifies an event wherein the Sun-God seems to remind their children that ‘Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya’- may you go higher and higher, to more & more Light and never to Darkness.
To Hindus, the Sun stands for knowledge, spiritual light and wisdom. Makar Sankranti signifies that we should turn away from the darkness of delusion in which we live, and begin to enjoy a new life with bright light within us to shine brighter and brighter. We should gradually begin to grow in purity, wisdom, and knowledge, even as the Sun does from the Day of Makar Sankranti.On this day children fly kites.
To mark this occasion, we made some kites in our class.
You’ll need
  1. 2 A4 sized craft papers in contrasting colours
  2. Scissors , a pencil, a scale
  3. 2 drinking straws
  4. Glue
  5. String – about a meter long
  6. Bits of coloured paper ribbons for the tail & decoration
To make :
  1. Place the two sheets aligned on top of each other. Fold in half along the long edge [ as shown in pic 1 see L-R, T-B]
  2. Fold one edge at one corner as shown in pic 2. Open
  3. Cut along the folded edge and then draw a line a line as shown in pic 3. Cut along this edge to form an elongated diamond shape.
  4. Use the cut triangles for decoration as shown in pic 4
  5. Turn upside down and Cut the straws and paste the straws to length. – first horizontally & then vertically.
  6. String a cotton thread through the vertical straw and tie it to form a triangle.
  7. Embellish with paper ribbons for the tail and any other design that you would like.
Here are the happy faces.

Filed Under: Craft Ideas, Exotic India, Kindergarten Crafts & Activities, Preschooler Crafts & Activities Tagged With: #CraftClass, India Crafts, Sankranti

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About Shruti Acharya

Shruti is a writer, photographer, DIY lover, passionate homemaker, and the chief dreamer at ArtsyCraftsyMom.com . Shruti lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and daughter. She loves showcasing fun art activities, crafts for kids, celebrations, childrens books & all the craziness that is India.

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Comments

  1. Prachi says

    January 14, 2013 at 7:04 am

    Lovely kites…and fantastic idea to get creative with kids…!!

    Reply
  2. Sunehra Koshy says

    January 14, 2013 at 7:35 am

    Lovely! My son came home from school with a kite too. Love the diamond centre… awesome!
    Crafting Till The Crack of Dawn

    Reply
  3. BettyToddler says

    January 14, 2013 at 8:20 am

    Nice Kites! INCREDIBLE THINKING!! You did really making sense. My little baby girl like different things to do and I think this will be enjoyable for me also when I’ll see she is making this

    Reply
  4. Swaram says

    January 14, 2013 at 4:53 pm

    Lovely! Happy Sankranti 🙂

    Reply
  5. Amit says

    January 18, 2013 at 5:58 am

    Very beautiful Shruti.

    Reply
  6. Shalini says

    April 21, 2016 at 7:04 pm

    Wonderful idea ! But did anyone test flying these kites ? Do they fly ?

    Reply
  7. Vibhavari says

    February 14, 2017 at 11:24 pm

    Very nice

    Reply

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