We Have Weapons!

What's new at our house this week?

Honor, glory and sacrifice.

The girls are in a musketeer phase now. They are running around shouting and pointing broomsticks at each other and attacking dastardly, if invisible, enemies. They asked me to please make them swords so they could fight more fearlessly ("and also so we can decorate the thing the sword goes into", says Emily).

Sure - if it's cardboard, I'll do it.

These swords were made from the inner tubes of wrapping paper rolls. We flattened and pointed the ends, slotted them through another cardboard strip to make the hilt

and wrapped the blade in aluminum foil.

I also cut lengths of webbing to make sword belts:

An adjustable slide at one end

a loop instead of a scabbard somewhere in the middle:

Took maybe a little over an hour to make 3 sets.

The girls decorated their swords-

even the blade -

and went off to protect the King/Prince/some important guy.

En garde!

Parry!

They are going to be musketeers next Halloween. They've got it all figured out. I might just do it - finally a change from princesses.