Wellington Wind Walk

How better to commemorate the Wind Walk than with a t-shirt featuring Scarlett Wild’s eye-catching and award-winning design.

Cost

$30 adult, $20 child.

Sizes

Toddlers: 2T, 3T and 4T
Youth: XS, S, M, L, XL
Womens: XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL
Mens: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

Dimensions

Toddlers

Youth

Women

Men

Colour options

Wind Walk t-shirt colour options

Email ncase@lighths.co.nz with the subject line: www t shirt order

Include your name, phone number, postal address and your collection preference – either posted or, for orders received before 21 September, to be collected on the Wind Walk day.

And for each t-shirt, please list:
Size, colour option, and quantity.

We will confirm by email, with total cost including postage and packaging and details for online payments.

Post
Print off the attached form and post with your cheque to:
Open Air Studio
22 Lincoln Street
Brooklyn
Wellington 6021

You don’t have to buy expensive kites from the stores to have fun with kites. You can make your own. It’s easy.

You will need:

• A lightweight piece of plastic: Rubbish bags are suitable, or used present wrapping foil. I used a 70cm x 63cm piece of bubble wrap to make mine.
• Two sticks, lightweight and not fragile, 64cm long: I used two green bracken fern stems. Other branches like this would be suitable, a pair of shorter sticks could be taped together to make a longer one, but you could use a stiff piece of wire, straighten out a coat hanger (ask Mum or Dad first).
• Tape: I used masking tape, any sort of tape should be suitable, sellotape, duct tape etc.
• String: I used builder’ string. I wouldn’t advise going heavier gauge than this.
• Step 1: Select suitable materials. If your plastic or sticks are not quite long enough scale sizes down to suit. Lay out plastic and cut to template shown. Figures shown as ratio’s, scale your kite to suit, take care not to go too large as these will more readily and will exert more force on your string which can cause burning.

A plan of the kite. Click to view the larger image.

Step 2: Cut sticks to length and tape them along the fold line at top and bottom and at mid point just above triangle opening.

Step 3: Apply tape to corners of triangle opening to prevent tearing.

Step 4: Cut a 3.0m length of string and tape each end to either side of kite.

Step 5: Select mid-point of string and form a loop. Attach good length of string to this. Optional to attach strings using a fishing line swivel.

Step 6: Decorate and go catch a breeze.

Good luck!

More kites

Here are some links to more kite plans:

How to Make a Kite Out of a Plastic Bag

Build a ‘square-incher’ micro kite

Making a tetrahedral kite

Making a 2 kite

Thanks to Laura Nyberg and Whittakers for donating a box of chocolate squares.

Thanks to David Sheppard and The Interislander for sponsoring some of the costs towards the production of Wellington Wind Walk t-shirts.

Thanks to Megan McSweeny and Go Wellington Buses for the free use of a bus and driver for part of the day.

Thanks to John Dawson, Craig Ireson and the Wellington City Council for sponsoring the cost of equipment used on the day.

Thanks to Nick Hazlewood and Electrical Concepts for their very generous sponsorship.

Thanks to Tim and Kaye Whitehead, No. 1 RE/MAX New Zealand 2007 for their generous sponsorship.

Thanks to John Crowther and Turners and Growers for donating the bananas.

Thanks to Chris Thornton and Ricoh for copying.

Thanks to Julie Moore and Moore Wilson for donating the hot chocolate.

Thanks to Ron Church and Thorndon New World for donating some of the supplies.

Thanks to Wing On Chang Foodmarket for the milk.

Thanks to Ben Zwartz, Registered Professional Surveyor for contributing time

Thanks to Nigel Case of Light house architecture for contributing time and design services.

Thanks too to:
Aro St Video
The Bach
Brooklyn Pharmacy
Karori Sanctuary
Penthouse Cinema
Empire Cinema
Te Papa
Capital E
Wild Chef Gourmet Food
Ros Dibley
Anna Macey
Brendon Foot Motors
Jenny Lang at Wild Chef
Caffe L’affare and
The Children’s Bookshop
for the fantastic spot prizes!

It’s easy to make your own windmill, and what’s really great is you can make one from everyday items around the house.

You will need:

• a piece of medium weight paper
• a pair of scissors
• a sewing pin, (a pin with a plastic head is good)
• a ruler
• a stick (disposable chopsticks are really good for this).

Step 1: Cut a square shape out of your medium weight paper. Magazine covers are good for this, but make sure you ask your mum or dad first before cutting up good magazines. The template shown below makes a good sized windmill. You might like to decorate and colour your template before cutting it out. There is a blank template here that you can download and print out (pdf, 12kb).

Blank template for making your windmill.

Step 2: Cut along the ‘cut lines’ – stopping just short of the middle.

Step 3: Using the pin, prick each of the ‘pin holes’. Push the pin all the way through.

Step 4: To assemble simply push the pin through one of the corner ‘pin holes,’ then gently bend the paper steering the pin towards the central pin hole. Slide each of the other three corner ‘pin holes’ onto the pin as you go.

Step 5: Push the pin through the central ‘pin hole’ and onto the very end of the stick/chopstick. You can choose whether the blades are mounted to the side of the stick or the end. We’ve found that sticking the pin into the end makes the windmill stronger – and you’re less likely to get pricked!

Step 6: Bring your windmill along on the Wellington Wind Walk!

We are hoping that there will be lots of windmills made brought along so that we can plant a whole garden of windmills at the base of the turbine. There will be giveaways for the best windmills on the day.

I look forward to seeing yours at the wind turbine.