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Solapur Kite Festival: How Fly360 Set a Limca World Record with 1,200 Children
How FLY360 set a Limca Book record at Solapur Kite Festival with 1,200 children making and flying kites together – the full world record workshop story.
In 2016, a city famous for its handloom industry and its sugar mills became the site of a new chapter in Indian kite-flying history. The Solapur International Kite Festival, organised by the Rotary Club of Solapur, brought together kite artists from across India and the world. Fly360 was invited to represent India. But the team did not arrive with just kites. They arrived with an idea that would change what a kite festival could be: a simultaneous kite making workshop for over 1,000 children at the same time, in the same arena, with an official Limca Book of Records adjudicator watching every minute.
This is the full story of how Fly360 set the world record for the largest simultaneous kite making workshop in a single sitting.
1,200 Children
Participated simultaneously in the Solapur kite making workshop
1,500 Kite Kits
Custom-manufactured in 30 days for the event
100 Kite Artists
Deployed as facilitators across the arena
Limca Certified
Official Limca Book of Records adjudicators present
The Big Idea: A World Record Within a Kite Festival
When the Rotary Club of Solapur approached Fly360 about the festival, they wanted something that would make Solapur stand apart. Fly360 proposed a concept that had never been attempted in India or internationally: a modern kite making workshop for over 1,000 participants in a single sitting, conducted simultaneously, at a single venue.
The proposal was accepted immediately. The next challenge was making it operationally possible in under 30 days.
30 Days to Build 1,500 Kite Making Kits
Scaling a kite making workshop from 200 participants (Fly360’s previous maximum) to 1,000+ required a complete redesign of the kit, the facilitation structure, and the communication system.
Fly360 hired a dedicated team of 25 people specifically to manufacture 1,500 custom kite making kits. Each kit contained high-quality plastic sheeting, fibre rods, scissors, glue, and printed sketch templates. The materials were chosen for one reason above all others: any child, regardless of prior experience, should be able to complete their kite successfully within the two-hour session.
A full dry run was conducted the day before the event to stress-test every element of the kit and the facilitation system.
Event Day: 1,200 Children and the Sky Goes to Work
On event day, 100 professional kite artists and volunteers were deployed across the arena, each managing a cohort of children. Instructions were broadcast from a central stage and mirrored on large LCD screens positioned throughout the arena so every participant had a clear sightline to the instruction.
At 9:00 AM sharp, the workshop commenced. By 11:00 AM, nearly 1,200 children had assembled, decorated, and launched their own kites – most of them for the first time in their lives. The kites rose above Solapur’s sky in a simultaneous launch that the Limca Book of Records adjudicators confirmed was a new record.
The final Limca Book of Records certification confirmed the record: most participants in a simultaneous kite making workshop. Fly360 had taken India’s kite-flying tradition and turned it into a verifiable, certified moment of national achievement.
Frequently Asked Questions: Solapur Kite Festival and Fly360 World Record
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