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Cloze
Kite day
Kite flying is great fun. It’s best done
instance, away
not just because you might run
from hazards; for
trees like those in the background here; and
into one! Many fantastic kiting
designs exist, but basically, they’re all ‘tethered wings’. Here, Jack holds a box
. It’s a hollow tube made rods and ribbons
of fabric. The open-ended ‘boxes’ are called ‘sails’. He has the ‘tether’, a cord on a
spool, on the beside him, along with struts,
a roll of and sticky tape to tears in the
‘sails’. Lilith
greens and yellows. She
it. The handles, with strings attached, are on the ground
a bird-like construction. She coloured it with reds,
two strings and handles to control
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side of her. Perhaps the strangest kite is the
cradled by Fan.
He decorated it with eyes, teeth
spines to make it look like a
, and coloured like Lilith’s ‘bird’. A ‘bridle’ for
the tether is attached to the ‘mouth’. A couple of diamond
, one
with a long, knotted tail, are
in the sky already.
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