Toys

Paper kite

Kites from the market looked nicer, but homemade ones were more fun: whittle two strips of bamboo, glue on newspaper or old exercise-book pages with a few grains of cooked rice, and add a tail of long paper strips.

On windy afternoons everyone headed for the empty lot or the rooftop. A kite that climbed high got a roar of cheers; one that tangled in the power lines got stared at sadly for a week.

Do you remember? How high did your kite ever fly?

💬 Everyone's memories

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