Knights Theme Class: Heraldry

For this class, each boy made a shield with a personal coat of arms on it.

I was able to get cardboard sheets free from Costco.  They were the kind that are put between pallets of food.  We used a jigsaw to cut the sheets into circles for the shields.  We gave the boys information about what certain colors and images have traditionally symbolized and they decorated the front.

We also made hot dog sticks which we used at the closing ceremony to "knight" each boy.  The hot dog stick was a piece of 1" dowell with a hole drilled in it as a handle and a piece of thick wire glued into the hole.  The boys decorated the handle with sharpies.  We kept the hot dog sticks until the closing ceremony.