How much do you need to spend for a good kite?

On Saturday our kids were begging us to get our their kites.

After much searching where do you think they found them?

Not anywhere near our house.

It seems that daddy threw them away sometime during one of the garage clean outs.

I haven no doubt they were broken, but the kids had made up their minds.

Enough to have gotten plastic bags out and put a string around the handles and tried flying them.

Bob called me while I was out on a few errands and told me to pick up some kites.

I thought to myself, Dollar Store?

But I was driving by Kmart, why not try that out.

The kites were right in front of the doors in so I felt pretty lucky.

The cheapest was $2.99, the most expensive was $11.99.

Being the mom that I am, I wanted to get characters I knew they would like.

Would Gwyn like Barbie or Belle and Ariel? -Princess of course. (2.99)

Gil, Toy Story or Transformers? -Toy Story (3.99)

Abe no question - Bakkugan (3.99)

Tucker was tricky he isn't into "characters" So I splurged on a ($6.99) Lizard kite
I was feeling so proud.

Our kids were going to adore us.

We are fun parents after all and it is Spring Break.

When I walked in the door the kids were so excited, and

cheering at my awesome choices for them.

Until we tried flying them.

Miss Priss took her classic cheap kite out and it practically jumped out of her hands.

It flew Awesome!

Possibly to awesome....she got tired of flying it.

See those pretty princesses?

She flew that kite for 40 minutes....but that is not what this picture is about.

Look at Abe in back ground....

His dumb kite never flew.

He tried for a long time.

He might be a little frustrated in this picture.

All his kite did was get tangled in it's own string.

He and Gil's kite's were the same kind...

Notice you don't see Gil.

He gave up after 2 tries.

Tucker found a little success.

He had a group of friends watching so he was very intent on getting this to work.

His kite was tiny and he got it to fly a couple of times but that was all.

Like I said....very intent.

This is how I found Gil when I walked in the house.

He had found a local paper and was looking at the grocery ads.

When I asked him how flying a kite went, he gave me this look.

Then quickly proceeded to tell me what looked yummy to him in the food section.

Guess it was time to make dinner.

~So if you need to buy a kite and can't wait for our local Kite Festival, buy the cheapest one you can find. As it turns out, they are tried and true.