Things to do with Kids: Make shields

This isn’t a shield that you can play with! Unless you  make it out of extremely sturdy cardboard and heavy duty aluminum foil and duct tape! I also assume that you have common supplies like glue, tape, scissors, and a heavy helping of common sense. Therefore, I will not tell you to supervise your kids, you know their abilities and are the best judge of this!

Supplies:

Aluminum foil

Some kind of cardboard or poster board, old cereal box covers work great too!

Permanent markers assorted colors (like Sharpie or Bic)

Depending on age of your artist you will want to supervise accordingly!

Here we go: draw a shield shape on the cardboard  narrower than your aluminum foil and cut it out.

TIP: If you have a bunch of kids of younger ages,  make tracers (draw some shields up and cu them out on paper) so they can trace their shields and you will get to help them a minimum.

Pull out the foil and lay it shiny side down on a table. Place the shield shape on the dull side of the foil and fold the foil over the cardboard. You might need to clip the curves so that the curves show up.

Then tape the foil to the shield. I go overboard on this and pretty much tape the whole thing.

Then carefully turn the shield over and color with the sharpies!

There you go one shield project for your knights  and ladies!

Of course you should talk about heraldry and chivalry while you are making these!

See you later,
Karen