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Make It Mondays: DIY Medieval/Renaissance Costumes from Household Supplies
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Here is a wonderful post in our series of guest posts this summer. I loved seeing how Yvie’s children supplemented their education by making costumes out of materials that are cheap and easy to find. What a great way for history to come to life! You can find more of Yvie’s posts at her blog, Homeschool on the Range. This post contains Yvie’s affiliate links which help support her blog.
It’s easy to make costumes and hands-on projects from re-purposed items around the house! My kids are always using things that they find lying around the house….scotch tape, aluminum foil, cardboard…nothing is safe! Occasionally, if they have a “vision,” we will head to the Goodwill (or a garage sale, if it’s summer) to pick up random extras for anywhere from a dime to fifty cents. What they learn from creating these things, though, is worth considerably more than that negligible cost.
These are some Medival-era costumes and crafts that they designed and created while we were working on that unit in our curriculum. If you like these tutorials, please consider purchasing the book that they have written, Recycled History, which spans from Ancient Egypt through World War II. (There are two more Medieval-themed projects in the book.) All proceeds from the sale go directly into their Lego Mindstorms fund, so that they can get creative on a robotics level!!
These tutorials were written by my ten-year old son. They are written for kids, from the perspective of a kid. I hope that your children enjoy them!
Fold the cloth in half, so that you have a 3′ by 3′ square.
Cut out a neck hole in the middle. We cut it a little too big, and just used safety pins on either side to make it the right width.
Cut out two 12″ by 1.5″ strips of cloth, with a little ‘V’ at the ends. Make a cross and sew them to the front of the black square.
Sew about 3″ in the middle of both sides of the square. This will keep it closed, but make it easy to get on an off.
Cut a 2′ length of cardboard and wrap it with tin foil. Cut a larger square at the bottom, glue it, and wrap it with foil. Now you have a sword!
We used a viking hat for a helmet, but you could make one with tin foil, like the Roman Legionnaire, but without the red stuff.
****If you like these tutorials, please consider purchasing the book that they have written, Recycled History, which spans from Ancient Egypt through World War II. (There are two more Medieval-themed projects in the book.) All proceeds from the sale go directly into their Lego Mindstorms fund, so that they can get creative on a robotics level!!****
In Yvie’s home, the question is not “what would you do for a Klondike bar?” – it’s “what would you do for a Lego set?” She and her husband road-school their children across the US. Find them at Homeschool on the Range or on Facebook.
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Great DIY! I love making quick and easy costumes for my kids, and it’s certainly better than them sitting in front of a screen!
I’m super impressed with the tutorial from his perspective. He did such a great job, and the projects themselves are awesome.
This is great! I absolutely love the idea of a tutorial from a kid’s perspective! And such a clever idea too.
i’m amazed how easy it looks! 😀
This looks like such a great and fun activity! My kids would absolutely love this!