Clockshop’s Kite Festival returns May 9 to Los Angeles State Historic Park. Don't have a kite? On Sunday, The Times published ...

These are instructions to make a newspaper kite. Paper kites are somewhat fragile and can break easily, but they are fun and easy to make. You can make lots of them with just one newspaper. -- Color ...

1. One dowel stick, 1/8 -inch in diameter (usually sold in 3-foot lengths at hardware stores). 2. A ball of kite string. 3. White glue for the paper. 4. Scissors and a pencil. STEPS IN CONSTRUCTION 1.

Dave Herzig still has the page from a 1979 craft magazine that changed his life. It offered a simple way to build a better kite. A third of a century later, the guy known as "the Kite Man" is turning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Readers can build this kite using a design provided in The Times' Weekend section. There is also a digital version available below ...

Readers can build this kite using a design provided in The Times' Weekend section. There is also a digital version available below. (Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times) After more than two decades ...