C and R made the simplest shields this week, and there has been a lot of knight play going on. I cut shield shapes out of cardboard. C decorated his shield with crayon and R painted hers.
I loved that C grabbed our copy of Ivanhoe off the bookshelf for inspiration when decorating his shield. The cover has gold lions in profile standing on their hind legs; C drew one lion on his shield. I also love that R is using her shield to protect her strawberry-peach smoothie.
I attached a toilet paper roll to the back of each shield (horizontally) with heavy duty packaging tape; that serves as the handle.
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