It was a beautiful day at Currimundi Lake last Saturday - and to celebrate Environment Day there was an activity planned to come and paint your own kite and then fly it!Sounded great - so I eagerly booked a kite to paint...
The artist in me came armed with some rough sketches of designs, and imagined being able to paint on a beautiful white silk kite...
I was somewhat disappointed to find that the painting area was a piece of tarp lying on the ground, and there were a few poster paints in plastic containers and chunky foam brushes... It was designed for kids, but still a table would have been good!
So, seeing though my 2 year old was still fast asleep (and not that developed with her painting skills yet) - I managed to get my heavily pregnant body down on the ground with the other kids and fight for some space to paint my little paper kite (no, not silk unfortunately!) I chose my simplest bold 'frog' design, as my colours and paint-brush range was rather limited - and produced a kite!
By the time it had dried and been assembled properly, T arrived with her dad to come and fly it... Unfortunately the wind had died down a lot, and little T didn't quite grasp the concept that a kite should fly up high in the air... She preferred it on the ground and with her hands holding the tail, and would get a bit upset when it actually got up in the air and further away from her!
But it was a fabulous afternoon - and I am well inspired to get my hands on some lovely silk and silk paints in the future and produce a whole lot more kite deisigns... One day!
In the meantime - our froggy kite is living in the boot of our car and getting pulled out whenever we are at the beach or the park and there is a bit of wind about!
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