Flying a kite can help you get out of your head and enjoy a peaceful afternoon with friends. The best beach kites come with attached kite strings, have a design that suits your needs, and come in fun ...

After teaching kite pattern design, Guo Hongli, the renowned kite-maker from Weifang, shows how to build a kite framework by making a small cross of two pieces of light wood. [Photo by Zhao ...

Nobody flew fancy kites a few decades ago. But it didn’t matter. When my dad fitted the balsa ribs onto the yellow paper store-bought kite, spring arrived just as surely then as it does now. I still ...

It's spring. Wind's up. Time to break out the kites. Last weekend, I brought home a simple, solidly built $10 kite for the next clear, windy weekend day. Knowing that our preschooler won't be terribly ...

The 75-year-old Zhang Xiaodong, an inheritor of the kite-making technique, is also ready to appear with his kites at the festival for the 42nd time. On Zhang's workshop table lies a notebook, in which ...

Kites are fun to fly and beautiful to watch. Flying them is an uplifting event that is peaceful and exciting at the same time. There are no motors or batteries, just the all-natural power of the wind.