Knights and Dragons Kid Activities

There were two crafts for our Knights and Dragon weekly summer kits: Dragon Paper Chain and a Knight's Shield. It also included a writing prompt and shield templates to design your own crest on. Unfortunately, this kit wasn't as creative as some of the others, but this is what I've got!

Dragon Paper Chain

This printable dragon paper chain template, as pictured above, is very straightforward.

Dragon face comes from Mr. Printables.com. Originally it was a face mask, but I've scaled it down to purpose and blacked out the eyes.

On the PDF, the face has been outlined to be the same thickness as the wings... which were free handed with a Sharpie.

The body of the dragon is has 2 parts and should be printed front and back if possible.

On one side are scales to color and on the other side are prompts to answer. "If I had a time machine...", "I'm currently reading...", "My favorite book is..." things of that nature.

Click here for Printable Dragon Paper Chain PDF

The 2nd page is intentionally left blank.

Knight's Shield 

These were made with hot glue, cardboard, aluminum foil and a cutting tool.

I free handed a template that was 5½ inches from top to bottom. These were traced onto cardboard, cut out, wrapped in aluminum foil.

The final product can be seen in the beginning picture (that's a cat, btw).

On the back of the shield is a little handle to hold it. It fits just one finger and is a strip of cardboard, warped to create a shape. The tops and bottoms are hot glued to the back of the shield.

This was our prompt...

 Knights would have had colorfully decorated images called a coat of arms carved into their armor and embroidered onto clothes and flags. This helped identify who they were or who they supported. Being able to be

identified on a battlefield through a coat of arms would have been very important years ago. 

These emblems might have elaborate or simple geometric shapes, animals, flowers or other defining features. 

Certain objects or animals would mean different things: foxes symbolized intelligence, a lion meant courage and an elephant represented strength. 

Think about what defines you and create your own emblem based on those things. Take a moment to draw out your coat of arms on a piece of scrap paper.

 Here's the template that I made to trace on to my shields.

In addition to this, we also passed out a page with other shield shapes, as pictured in the beginning picture.

Click here for a PDF of those templates. 

In full disclosure, my coworker found those off so I have no idea where they came from!



Writing Prompt

Since our Summer Reading Program is all online, we've got more than a few reading logs from CSLP

Sideways? Blogger, why do you do this to me?

that we don't know what to do with!

We were able to give out reading logs for our writing prompt in these craft kits.

If you've read my DIY Journal post, this prompt might sound familiar to you!

I was sitting in class, day dreaming about all the things I'd rather be doing when I looked out the window and my jaw dropped. A giant Ender Dragon was circling the skies of our school! I raised my hand to tell the teacher when it suddenly it landed in the school yard. I knew what I had to do.

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