by nickupton
Bird Gliders are fun, inexpensive toys that encourage playing outdoors, something that too many children do not do often enough.
These bird models make children construct the toy themselves and then they can be played with alone or with friends and family; these toys are a great opportunity for parents to play with their kids, indoors or out.
Put these bird gliders together to make realistic birds then fly them in the garden or in the park. When they crash readjust them and repair then see what they do. With little alterations these bird gliders will take long glides, short glides, curved glides or nose dives! However they glide, these are a lot of fun to play with.
You find a set of 12 to buy here.
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| Bird Gliders - 12 per unit Only $2.58 |
Assembling these bird gliders is a simple affair and you can leave your child to follow the instructions provided on the packet themselves; this will give them a sense of achievement in completing the task themselves. If your bird glider enthusiast is of an older type, following the instructions will allow them to prove that as yet they have not lost the plot.
If they are unable to follow the instructions this brief summary will allow you to help.
These bird gliders are cool! When I was young my parents used to take me on holidays to the New Forest in England where we used to have lots of space for playing outside. In a nearby shop bird gliders like these were for sale and I used to use my pocket money to buy the latest ones. After putting them together my sister and I used to glide them towards each other, taking great delight if one crashed into a nearby cow pat!
Quite frankly some of them glided well, others not so well! But it was great fun adjusting and readjusting them to find out how far, how fast and how erratic they would glide.
Playing with these bird gliders also spurred me and my sister into trying to make our own models out of old cardboard boxes - with very mixed results!
 | 12 Bird Gliders Children love dreaming of flying like these cool Bird Gliders. These gliders are perfect carnival prizes or goody bag treats. Only $3.95 |
 | 12 Piece Bird Glider Assortment [Toy] A 12 piece assortment of easy to assemble gliders that look like birds. Only $9.9 |
Birds glide in more or less the same way that an airplane flies. The shape of the bird's wing forces air to pass over the wing in a different way to how it passes under the wing. This creates a higher air pressure below than above and makes the bird lift. A bird gains the speed to create airflow by flapping its wings whereas a plane uses its engines.
However, bird also glide by holding out their wings over pockets of warm, rising air called thermals. This type of gliding is called "soaring". A plane does not do this.
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It is difficult to say how well these insects will actually glide, due to their funny shapes, but they certainly look a lot of fun. These look great for messing around with in the garden.
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nickupton, Thank you for pictures, practicalities and product.
Two aunts who were teachers had these gliders. I know birds from their flying and gliding styles because of my aunts modeling them with their bird gliders. It was the same with their insect set, in which my favorites were the odonates.