Authors: Christine Ricatte
Date Submitted: August 31, 2004
Article Type: Journal

Kiting is an excellent form of expression. If a playful and original approach is used by the teacher, students learn useful skills. They learn to know materials, use tools, engage with nature, discover distant civilizations. Some find kiting soothing, indeed even theraputic.

Teaching kitemaking and kiteflying is one of my major teaching tools. From early on, I came to see kites as a field to be explored as an alternate way for children to learn. The kite gives a child a new approach to knowledge—-a spiritual dimension, if you will.

Children take to kites very quickly. They like to dream and to escape and kites lead naturally in these directions. Kites open doors to thoughts of travel, to other horizons, cultures, ways of life.

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