"Kites provide inexpensive, exciting leads into many areas--arts, crafts, engineering, math and even history, since the development of kites is traced in both East and West. They are also simply fun--an activity to be shared by all ages. They are for poets, inventors and all of us who like to hold our work in our hands and watch it take off into the sky.

"How do I feel about Charlie Brown and his kite? About his chronic, predestined failure to fly a kite? I don't like it, that's how. Kites should be a symbol not of failure but of soaring, spirit-freeing success.

"All kitemakers build on what has gone before and all are indebted to unknown kite designers who, long ago and far away, built and flew kites. My own work would not have been possible without the pupils and the teachers in the various schools where, over a period of 15 years, I learned to be
the Kite Lady.

"Here are my three simple criteria for classroom kites:

One: They must be winners. We don't want to teach people that kites are hard to make and difficult to fly.
Two: They must use easily obtainable, inexpensive materials.
Three: They must be completed in about an hour so the kite can be finished and flown the day it is begun."

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