People all over the world fly kites. Many people fly them for festivals and cultural traditions. Some fly kites as a sport, competing against other kite-fliers. Kites are also used in extreme sports like kite surfing. Whatever the setting, there is something magical about launching a kite and watching it dance in the sky.
This blog is part of a primary school project about kites around the world for spring 2009. We would like to learn more about the ways that people around the world enjoy kites, especially children.
Please help us explore these similarities and differences by leaving a comment and answering some of the following questions. Feel free to answer all, some, or just one. Add any other information you want to share.
1. What is your first name and what country are you from?
2. Are kites flown at special times of the year, or for special activities in your country?
3. Where do people fly kites (the beach, park, roof-tops...)?
4. Are there different kinds of kites in your country? What makes them different?
5. What do you call kites? What different names do they have?
6. Have you ever made a kite? What kind of kite was it?
7. Do you know any tales or traditions about kites?
Thank you!
The people fly kites on roof tops.
ReplyDeleteIn our country there are no tales or myths about kites.
We are from Pakistan Lahore Beaconhouse School Liberty Campus.Our names are Fatima Awan and Humaira Aamir.
The different names of kites are patang,guddy,macher,dhaitawa,tawa and etc.But majority people call it as patang.
ReplyDeleteNeehaFarrukh,Rameesha Mirza&AmeenaKhan age:11 School:Beaconhouse school system Pakistan
kites have different names in our country.
ReplyDeleteThe names are:
patang
machar
goodi
tawa
dhai tawa
dade tawa
das tawa
panch tawa
pona tawa
pari
gooda
do tawa
chey tawa
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The different names of kites are patang,guddy,macher,dhaitawa,tawa and etc.But majority people call it as patang.
ReplyDeleteNeehaFarrukh,Rameesha Mirza&AmeenaKhan age:11 School:Beaconhouse school system Pakistan
In our country, Pakistan the kites are flown on a special festival called "basant" but one thing I want to tell you is that for the last two years kite flying has been banned in pakistan as the string is dangerous and because of it many people have died and this had been happened because strings have pieces of miror and chemical on it.
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Safora,Abeera,Dua
In Britian there aren't many festivals and we mainly fly kites for enjoment. We fly them at beaches and parks, but not from rooftops. The kites we fly don't really have names and noone is bothered anyway. I don't know any tales or traditions, we don't talk about it or seem bothered by it. I've never made a kite but when people do they use paper, sticks and string
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