How to make an Olive The Owl kite

Here's how to make your Olive the Owl kite...

What you'll need:

• Pliers*
• Thin wire, about 0.5mm thick
• Sticky tape
• Scissors
• Tissue paper in light green, blue, pink, and dark green
• Clear-drying glue
• Piece of string, 6cm long
• Rectangle card

*Adult supervision required.

Step 1

Using pliers, bend a piece of wire into an owl shape and carefully tape the edges together. Then, using 2 more bits of wire, create a crossbar, making sure to bend each end back on itself to form hooks. Attach the crossbar to the owl-shaped frame and secure in place with some tape.

Step 2

Cut a piece of light green tissue paper 1cm larger than your wire frame. Make cuts 1cm apart all around the edges to form small flaps.

Step 3

Place the wire frame onto the tissue paper, then fold each flap over and glue in place. Some flaps might overlap, but that’s fine.

Step 4

Cut out your owl’s eyes, beak, wings, tail and feathers from pink, blue and dark green tissue paper. Then, using our main picture (or the final picture, below) as a guide, glue your pieces into place on the front of the kite.

Step 5

Knot your string to the rectangle card to make a handle and then wind it around. Tie the loose end of the string to the centre of the crossbar, and– voilà – your owl kite is now ready to fly the skies!

• Extracted with thanks from Donna Wilson’s Creative Creatures: Make-and-Do Crafty Creatures for Kids (no longer in print).

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