Literature Wednesday

Literature Wednesday

Robin Hood

We are still reading Robin Hood and all of the stories about him. We just got a bunch of larch boxes and we decided that we would build Sherwood Forest and the town of Nottingham.



The church had a little more effort put into it. We made stained glass windows with tissue paper and parchment paper and had a bell in the steeple.

Here is what we did. First I cut the holes in the cardboard box.
Then we collected the following
Liquid Starch
tissue paper
parchment paper (wax also works)
Paint brush (paper can be dipped by hand its just messier)
Container to hold starch

1. fold parchment in half and unfold
2. paint starch onto one side of the paper
3. Place tissue paper onto wet side and paint more starch onto it till wet.
4. Once covered fold the paper in half and press down.
5. I used a heating tool to quick dry it.
6. Trim if needed and tape or hot glue it into place from the inside of the window
7. You or your kids can ad black lines with a Sharpie pen to give an authentic stained glass look.

Here is Quentin next to our finished church. We placed it in front of the window so we could see the colors of the windows. We also made Sherwood Forest the Jail of Nottingham and Prince Johns Castle.

Here is Milton coloring some of the branches for the tree of Sherwood Forest where Robin Hood and his Merry Men lived.

Here is our Jail of Nottingham where the Sheriff had locked up people for not paying taxes or for being part of Robin Hoods Merry Men.