Smiling boy runs through a park holding a diamond kite with bows on its tail.

Boy Running with a Diamond Kite

A grinning boy races along a winding park path while his striped diamond kite flashes above the trees and puffy clouds.

🎨 How to color it

Color the boy’s shirt sunny yellow, his shorts denim blue, the diamond kite cherry red and sky blue, and the park trees leafy green. Use chunky crayons for the big shirt, shorts, and path shapes, then switch to a sharper crayon tip for the kite’s stripes, tail bows, and tufts of grass. Try making the kite brighter than everything else, as if it has just caught a secret beam of sunlight.

The story behind this coloring page

Why Kite Tails Bow — Under the whispery park trees, Tate wound three cloth scraps around an empty thread spool. Read the full story →

Under the whispery park trees, Tate wound three cloth scraps around an empty thread spool. He had sewn them himself with crooked red stitches, and he wanted his kite to tug them high enough for his sister to see from the hospital window across town. The wind smelled like cut grass and rain waiting.

But the plain tail snapped and slapped. The kite dove toward the winding path. Then Tate heard a tiny hush-hush from the spool. The scraps twisted themselves into neat little bows, one after another, and the kite steadied as if the sky had taken hold. “I made those,” Tate whispered, grinning.

Ever since, kite tails wear bows so the wind can hold on without tearing the maker’s work. Next time you spot the bow tail fluttering up high, can you guess which stitch Tate tied first under the whispery park trees?