Chapi-chapi

Chapi-chapi is a small two-stick kite that can be quickly constructed from cheap materials such as newspapers, broom sticks, or discarded plastic sheet.

The name itself colloquially means, "assembled fast" or "quickly improvised".

The horizontal stick is tensioned into a bow in order to provide greater support for the paper or plastic sheet.

Unlike the diamond-shaped Malay kite[2] and Eddy,[3] no extra strings are used in the edges for the frame, making the chapi-chapi easier and faster to assemble but relatively more fragile.

[3][6] The kite shown in the 1999 Filipino film Saranggola was a chapi-chapi.

A chapi-chapi constructed from broom sticks and plastic sheet from a discarded plastic bag, on top of other kites.
A woman flies a chapi-chapi constructed using newspapers, in Rizal Park .