How to build a kite by recycling Easter egg packaging

Why throw away the Easter egg wrap if we can turn it into a beautiful kite for our kids to play with? We explain how to do it in four steps.

He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

Where are the packaging of Easter eggs thrown away? Every year the doubt of where to give the "card" of chocolate eggs comes back on time. The answer varies from municipality to municipality and if in some it is possible to throw it in the multi-material container or plastic, in others, however, we must give it in the undifferentiated. The advice, therefore, is to find out from the company that manages separate waste collection in your area.

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But the colorful Easter egg packaging goes well with creative reuse. In fact, they can be stored and used for DIY gift boxes or greeting cards, but also to entertain the little ones.

To that end, here is a tutorial that explains step by step how build a wonderful colorful kite by recycling the Easter egg packaging, to be used, weather permitting, on Easter Monday! It will be an original and fun way to involve the little ones in what we can consider a small recovered tradition (who of you has never tried your hand at building a do-it-yourself kite?) In the name of creative recycling.

You will need:

1 Easter egg
2 wooden chopsticks (two fairly linear branches will also do)
Scotch tape
Ecological glue
Spago
Fishing wire

Index

Let's not break the paper!

Taken by the heat of surprise, children tend not to worry about the paper that covers the egg. It is very important to keep it intact, so for this year, discard the egg along with them.

Let's roll it out well

It is important that the paper is as tight as possible and without too many creases. Open it on a table and place heavy books on it so as to iron it a little.

We build the armor

Equip yourself with wooden sticks as long as the diagonals of the quadrilateral. It is preferable not to cut the wrapping paper but to adapt the rods to the size of the sheet. There are kites of various shapes and sizes, it doesn't have to be rhomboid, even square will do just fine.

Cross the two sticks to obtain a cross and join them with a little glue and then secure them with string.

At the four ends of the cross, apply small cuts through which you will pass more string in order to create the shape of the kite.

We stick the egg paper

The time has come to apply the Easter egg card to the armor. You can use adhesive tape that adheres to the string and the edges of the paper.

Reinforce the tips of the kite with additional adhesive tape to which you will also apply fishing line. The four fishing lines will have to convey to a central node from which the kite support line will start.

Here is a tutorial that can be useful:

Children of the wind, renewable energy, creative recycling, your kites will be the Easter testimony of the importance of reuse. They will be the multicolored manifesto of the possibility of having fun with little, starting with simple things. Perhaps, the real surprise is not to be found in the egg but in the package.

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