Cute 'Child Flying Kite' Photos

The Kite-Flying Career Of A Toddler

Our 'Child Flying Kite' pics cover only a couple of years of his life. However, that's a long time in toddler years!

Browsing through our archive of kite flying pictures, there were a number that featured our small son, Aren. He's still small in mid-2009, but could well out-grow his Dad eventually. Which won't take a lot of doing... In any case, I hope he retains his love of kite flying!

The images did bring back a few memories, so I've captioned each shot with a comment or 2. See how he graduates from waving around a small Sled kite while sitting down, through to wrestling with a box kite flying line on a windy day. Hope you enjoy them.

Oh, by the way, I have deliberately avoided re-using existing photos from this site. Almost all 'child flying kite' images on this page have not been previously published on this website.

In April 2007, we took him outside for a short photo-session with the Baby Sled. We had bought him this kite at the Adelaide International Kite Festival, in March 2007. Cute-ness personified. Aren, that is, although the kite's not bad either!

By October 2007, we had bought the Windjam Delta. In those days, not knowing any better, we flew it on fishing line. Winds were light on this sunny day, and Aren had no trouble hanging on as the 1 meter Delta hovered around 200 feet up.

A little later in October, we had made a small Diamond for Aren. Later I simplified this design when I published the Tiny Tots Diamond page. Here's Aren, barely capable of standing and flying a kite. He was very cute, and shortly after this shot was taken, he trotted off downwind, still clutching the line as the kite soared up higher in a gust of wind.

In April 2008, we snapped this shot of the little tacker flying the 1-Skewer Delta from the comfort of his pram! During this year he flew kites like this on quite a few occasions. Often the kite was a 2-Skewer design, for example the 2-Skewer Sode.

In July 2008 I took this shot of Aren flying the 1-Skewer Diamond from his pram. Of course, he had to crane his neck around, trying to see what I was up to, behind the pram! An unintended pose, but this child flying kite picture works quite well don't you think?

September 2008. Working the line a bit, with the 2-Skewer Delta down a little low by the looks of it! He looks like he's really enjoying himself here. No longer a human kite line anchor, he's a real little kite-flyer now!

In April 2009, we were out test-flying the new Dowel Rokkaku. The wind was very light, so I allowed Aren to fly it for a few moments while I took the photo. Just look at that steep line angle! However, we were at the rather small vacant block at the top of our street and so had only 15 or 20 meters of line out. This Rok has a wing span of 1.2 meters (4 feet).

Hope you enjoyed these 'child flying kite' pictures! No doubt we'll update this page a few times in future.

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Last updated: 3 Sep 2009