Medieval Madness! Sep 2006

We had a Medieval Day today with our homeschooling group and it was fantastic. Though I came up with the idea, each family contributed an item and made the day a success.

Here was the invitation:

We are holding a special day on Saturday 23 September to celebrate Medieval times.
From 10am to 2pm
We encourage you to come as a family.

What’s the rough format?
We want to start at 10am and give children the opportunity to try lots of activities/crafts – some will be compulsory but most will be chosen by your child before the day.

After a general intro, we will have the etiquette class. Then we will divide the children into groups and they will go to one activity "station" and then make their way through all the others they have chosen for the morning.

Activities include:
Weaving
Knight’s Pouch
Letter illumination
Piqued hat making
Stained glass
Archery
Trebuchet
Stab the Dummy and 
Knight’s Challenge (eat some gruel, storm the castle, rescue the lady)

Here’s some photos of the events:

     

Piqued hat making (Abi poses)     Stained glass window craft

  
  Letter illumination

      
Archery                                       Knight’s Challenge- storm the castle

        

Zac with his knight’s pouch   Time to eat the gruel!!!

At around 12noon, we want to get things set up for a medieval feast.

At around 1pm, we are thinking of having a jousting tournament. All families will gather to take part and spectate and cheer.

Here’s a couple of photos from that:

     
Junior jousting   
                                                
Without the helmets

In one of the helmets…

Here’s some general shots too:

The parents and children who dressed up.

Mark and me

One of the dads is really amazing and makes his own armour, weapons, shields and came up with those brilliant jousting lances which retracted on impact and were nice and safe. The shields at the start were his and here’s some more of his handiwork:

    

Posted on on September 22nd, 2006