To celebrate, children learn dances and songs and hang strips of paper inscribed with poems on the branches of bamboo trees. When the festival ends, the bamboo is thrown into a river to dispel misfortune. Your child can write her own poems on decorated paper and hang them on a tree for good luck. This year marks the 94th anniversary of the Wright brothers' legendary achievement at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Celebrate by introducing your child to the concept of flight.
Airplanes stay up because air currents along the wings create pockets of no resistance, or vortexes.
With no force to counteract it, the pressure beneath the wings pushes the plane upward. As long as enough propulsive force, or thrust, is generated to maintain the difference in pressure beneath and above the wings, a plane will fly. Gravity will make the other end drop, creating a convex shape similar to the wing of an airplane. Now have your child place her mouth an inch from the edge of the paper and blow across the top surface of the paper. Winkle, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Tom Kitten in true Beatrix Potter style.