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Unit: Medieval Art

Project: Knight Shields

Objectives:
1. Identify different types of shields.
2. Use lines and patterns to create a personalized shield.
3. Recognize objects and colors used in different shields.
4. Evaluate the use of color and objects in student work.

Materials Provided:
• Silver cardboard paper
• Shield worksheet
• Glue
• Shield pattern
• Colored construction paper
• Scissors

Materials Needed:
• Pencils

Vocabulary:
1. Tinctures: colors used on a shield
2. Charges: an object that holds meaning that is placed on a shield
3. Filed: surface of a shield
4. Quartering: the coat of arms of both husband and wide appear on the same shield. 1st and 4th, and 2nd and 3rd quarters are always the same.
5. Ordinaries: designs on a shield made by combinations of straight lines

Motivation:
1. Show and discuss examples of shields (referring to worksheet included) that utilize color, line and objects.
2. Demonstrate all steps and options of shield procedure before students begin.
3. Show students that the finished shield and point out the multiple elements represented.

Instruction:
mid11. Take one piece of silver cardboard paper and one shield pattern. Turn over the silver paper and begin tracing the shield pattern with a pencil. Carefully cut out the shield along the traced lines.









   
mid22. Choose one or all of the following options to decorate the shield using sheets of the colored construction paper. Get creative!











mid3 3. (Optional) create your own pattern to decorate your shield with ordinaries using straight lines, bands, crosses or chevrons. Draw the shape use a piece of colored construction paper and pencil. Cut out the shape.









mid4 4. (Optional) Use a different color to overlap the ordinary you created (or place directly to the shield). Use the included pattern of thin curved lines or create a new pattern. This pattern can be used to frame your charge on the shield or can be partially hidden behind the object.









mid5 5. (Optional) Create a charge using colored construction paper. This can be an animal, weapons of war, plants, birds or imaginary creatures. Draw out your favorite charge on the construction paper (can be similar to the examples from the worksheet or created from imagination).





mid6 6. Cut out each shape or pattern created and arrange on the shield to discover the best combination of all the objects. Glue each piece or object made from the construction paper and adhere it to the shield or to the other objects created.





mid7 7. Cut out a small strip from the silver cardboard paper that is as wide as the upper part of the shield. Staple the ends of the strip to the outer edge of the shield leaving a little space between the strip and the shield to fit your hand.










Evaluation:
1. Use shapes, color and object to create a design or image on the shield?
2. Use correct techniques to produce clean borders and crisp-edged lines?
3. Evaluate completed work?

  
 




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