I can relate the same with most of the post,pointer broom,eatey broom[type of palm tree] excercise book page,brown paper bag,flour paste,gama cherry[Skelly call it pasey]small kite flying with thread oh boy that was fun when i was little.
Teenage years made the real bad big kite out of wood frame and designed to sing hard flied with strong nylon twine,all started about a few weeks before easter,the spot for flying kites was at the sea wall,when you want to cut up some other fliers kite a razor blade is attached to the tails.