Knight Party- Games & Activities

GAMES & ACTIVITIES

-Shield making- we assembled the shields ahead of time, so the children were able to get to work decorating them with markers, stickers, gluing cut out pictures (printed some from this website), and stick-on gems.

Shield Making Supplies

Completed shields

-Get dressed in armor Tunic, helmet, and choosing their balloon sword.

Knight Costume

Going to storm the "castle" (playset)

Selection of Balloon Swords

-Pony rides- hired local pony to give children rides for an hour.  We took photos of each child in their Knight Costume riding the pony.

-Knight Tattoos- as children were waiting for their pony ride, they could chose a temporary tattoo.  We set up a kid-size chair and table as the tattoo station, and had goblets with water & sponges for applying the tattoos.

Tattoo station

-Storm the Castle- While waiting for their pony ride, the children could also play on the playset that we decorated as a castle.

-Dragon Tail Tag- Children stood in line with hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them.  The first child in the line had a dragon hat on, the last child had a green flag tucked into their back pocket or waistband of their pants.  The dragon head had to try to catch the dragon tail.

-Knight's Challenge- We set up two teams.  Each knight took a turn getting on the stick pony, grabbing their joust (a pool noodle cut in half, and white tape used to make spiral design) and running across the field, jumping over a paper moat (complete with fake alligators), to slay a toy dragon that was sitting on top of a wash basket.  Then the Knight had to rescue the princess doll that was trapped under the basket & return to the starting line.
We set this up with each team being across the field from the other, so that as one team returned with the princess, we had an adult assigned to stick it back under the other team's wash basket so it would be set up for the next brave knight to arrive!

Knight's Challenge supplies (x2)

Placed teams across from each other for ease of
the "reset" for the next knight.

-Story time- we read The Knight and The Dragon as the children ate their lunch.  There were other books on hand for the kids to browse if they finished lunch earlier than the rest.

-Pin the Sword/Shield on the Knight

-Find the Chalice- Split children into two teams. Played like capture the flag, but with silver goblets instead (the same ones used for holding the tattoo water/sponges earlier).  Each team hides their chalice and then they try to find the chalice of the other team.

-Slay the Dragon Pinata- we used a wooden sword (painted gold) to hit the pinata.


Additional game ideas:
Pin the tail on the Dragon
Sword in the Stone- place some cut out swords inside gray balloons and then inflate.  Kids get to pop the balloons and get a reward if they find a sword.

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