Looking for kite clip art? Frustrated by not always finding a 'kites' category? Here's the info you need! It's mainly just a matter of going to the right websites and using the search function.
To save you some bother, I've conveniently listed some good sites
which provide a variety of great clip art depicting kites. I also give detailed
instructions to find and use the site's search function, so it returns
only relevant clip-art results.
Although there's plenty of free clip art on the Web, you will find that very little of it is searchable. Hence you can't select out just the kite-related stuff. You will probably have to spend a few dollars to get quality images onto your hard drive. Times have changed!
When the weather's good and you have the time, it's great to get out with a kite or 3. But what about on bad weather days? Then it's time to pull out...
"Kites Up!" - my downloadable kite-flying board game! Apart from towing indoor kites, doing a spot of imaginary flying is the next best thing :-)
The images on the listed sites tend to belong to one of the following types...
Site: ShutterStock
How To Search: Click in the large edit box which has an orange button at the right hand end.
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When I tried it, 45 pages of Vector images came up and 62 pages of Illustrations. However, a small number of these images could not be called kite clipart!
Site: iClipArt
How To Search: There's a search box at the top-center of the Home Page for this site. Click in the box, then type in 'kite' and click the green Go button.
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Last time I looked there were over 320 great-quality images.
Site: CanStockPhoto
How To Search: Near the top of the page, you will find a big white search box...
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Over 2300 images came up when I last looked.
Site: Foto Search
How To Search: At the top of the page, you will find a block of sample photos, with a large search box on the bottom edge.
Comments On Available Images:
When I last checked, there were over 900 illustrations. The quality is great, however a significant number of photos and irrelevant images pop up here and there. Clicking on each kite clip art image brings up the available resolutions and pricing, starting at $9.
Site: BareWalls
How To Search: Click in the big search box, near the top-center of the Home Page. Then...
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When I tried it, over 8000 matches came up. It doesn't appear that any refinement of the search is possible, but there are certainly many great and useful images to be found as you wade through them all.
As mentioned earlier, there's another alternative to towing indoor kites if it's just not possible to fly outdoors...
"Kites Up!" is my downloadable board game. It's a PDF file which has all the documentation for the game plus images for all the components. Tokens, cards, the board itself and so on. Anyway, just click that link to see more info :-)
It's a printable PDF file. Make a diamond, delta or sled step-by-step. They fly hundreds of feet up for hours on end. Woohoo!
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