Kid Kamp~Week 4~Princesses & Knights Cont.

I just realized, I am totally a week behind.  Here is my post for P & K week.  When I finish this, hopefully I will have time to work on what we did this week.

Well, we rounded out Princesses & Knights week with a bang.  We didn't do much but we did make some really cute Princess and Knight mirrors AND we made it all the way up to Medieval Times (with no accidents for my newly potty trained son :0).

So I posted earlier about my Paper Bag Princess book being taken out at the library.  I never got it.  We just worked with the others that I had.  They were, in case you missed it

My daughter loved the Paper Princess stories.

Now, I did get a bunch of books about knights as well.  But my son just wasn't into them.  Again, he was focused on the potty training (I now have officially two children potty trained.  Just one more to go).  I apologize, but I don't remember the names of the books.  They were basically just kid versions of reference books about knights.  Very straight forward information.


My daughter is very much into doing workbooks.  So, again, we made another file folder workbook using this Princess Preschool Pack from 1+1+1=1.  She has some amazing stuff.

Then we made the mirrors.  I got the idea from here. This is what it is supposed to look like

I used what materials I had on hand.  We used

1. foam frame
2. glitter glue
3. double sided tape
4. large Popsicle stick 
5. tin foil
6. cardboard
7. glue
8. duct tape

And the steps are

1. cut cardboard to fit to the back of the foam frame
2. tear off a piece of tin foil and cover the cardboard with the shiny side out--use double sided tape to secure 
3. glue tin foil covered cardboard to the frame
4. glue the popsicle stick to the back & duct tape it secure it
5. now decorate with glitter glue or gems or whatever

Here are my Princess's and Knight's mirrors.

To close out the week, we went to Medieval Times.  This place is so cool.  If you have never been, it is essentially dinner theater set in Medieval Times.  It is in a castle.  When you enter, you are given a crown and a knight of a certain color to cheer for.  Ours was the red and yellow knight.  You are then escorted into the public square area where there are plenty of kiosks to buy STUFF--princess crowns, tiaras, cone shaped crowns, dresses & gowns, swords, scepters, shields, both wooden and flashing.  Don't forget the drinks, the $10 12oz Slurpees in flashing glasses that my kids had to have.

Then the show begins.  The crier lets you know where to sit.  The king and princess come out and so on and so forth.  There are six knights--3 from the west and 3 from the east.  They do all sorts of competitions--hook the ring with their lance, throw a spear into a target, and the JOUST--so exciting.  After the knights joust, they sword fight "to the death".  My daughter was screeching like it was real.  She loved it but, it was really intense for her.  My son got really into cheering for our knight, "go ret an yeh-do, go ret an yeh-do" (translation--go red and yellow).

Next comes the medieval feast with no utensils.  And don't ask for utensils they publicly mock you if you do.  A table was mocked while we were there.  The food was pretty tasty too. You get a tomato soup (my kids LOVED this), with a focaccia bread for dipping.  A chicken quarter, spare rib and potato wedges.  For dessert a yummy apple tart.  I will say it is NOT cheap, but we did have a really good time.  If you ever get a chance and you have the money to go, it is a good time.

After all this, my son was finally into the knight books.

Kid Kamp~Week 4~Princesses & Knights

Princess and knights...I have been waiting for this one.  I have a lot of fun stuff planned.  Or maybe I should say HAD a lot of fun stuff planned.  First, the book that I was going to focus pretty much everything around, The Paper Bag Princess, was taken out of the library.  Do you believe it?  Here's the funny thing.  I went yesterday with my daughter to get it and the librarian told me that the book is NEVER taken out. No one ever borrows it.  Ugh!  Well, we did get a few other really good ones.



 


I recommend all of them, especially the The Paper Princess ones.  There is a third as well, The Paper Princess Flies Again--with Her Dog.  The Paper Princess books really did the trick.  We made our own paper princesses.

I copied a picture of the paper doll and then traced the outline.  I am not an artist, so we needed the help of an outline.  We cut them out and stuck them on popsicle sticks to use as puppets.

As you can see there is nothing about knights yet.  My son is in the middle of potty training so he is focused on the potty, not on knights right now.

We are planning a trip to Medieval Times on Friday.  I am hoping he will be trained enough to make the trek.  It is over an hour a way.  I am bringing several changes of clothes with me and the Potette, which if you don't have one and have young children,  I definitely suggest the investment.  It is a portable potty. It is so worth it.

There is still more to come.  Hopefully, I will get to it.  I posted now because I actually had the time.  Stay tuned--more to come--fingers crossed :0)