It’s shocking how many different ways you can make a kite, and how many different materials you can use to build it. It is also shocking how destructive a strong wind can be to any form or material.

In Weifang, Shandong province, kites are not just toys. They symbolize both culture and an industry for the city. Widely known as the world capital of kites, Weifang has a history of flying kites ...

Kites, mostly of the traditional kind, are catching the eye of passers-by at Peterson’s One-Stop Kite Shop in Martindale’s Road, St Michael. Owner of the business, 58-year-old Peter Wiltshire, who has ...

Betsy Mabry’s eighth-grade science students have discovered there is a lot more to flying kites than tying string to a piece of paper and hoping for a good breeze. Mabry’s Oklahoma Bible Academy earth ...

In pursuit of spring activities in the midst of a snowy April, I signed up with my daughter for a family kite-making class. If we couldn’t fly a kite, at least we could make one, with the hope that ...

Huddled over piles of colourful paper, Mohammad Yunus is one among thousands of workers in India's western state of Gujarat who make kites by hand that are used during a major harvest festival. People ...