Personal Shield

Before the meeting: 

1. Set up the meeting space for painting and make sure to protect the workspace and floor. 
2. Inform Cub Scouts and adult partners that they will be painting during the meeting and to bring an old t-shirt or craft apron. 
3. Make a shield for yourself to use as an example and identify steps that may be a challenge for Cub Scouts. 

During the meeting: 

1. Gather the Cub Scouts and adult partners and share with them that for this activity they will design and make their own shield.   Tell them that knights in medieval times used a shield to protect themselves but they also used it to identify who they were and where they came from.  During this time most people could not read so people would use symbols instead of words.  Most shields were decorated with symbols that may show what part of the country they were from or what family they were from. 
2. Have the Cub Scouts with their adult partners use page 40 of their Tiger handbook to come up with a design for their shield using symbols or images that they feel represent their family and where they are from.   
3. Once everyone has completed their design Cub Scouts work with their adult partners to cut out their shield from the project board and then paint their design onto their shield. 
4. When everyone has made their shield have each Cub Scout describe their shield to the den.