We watched a bunch of Stage Combat videos and got really interested in this almost-dance-like art form. (I remember it being a big hit [HA HA] last time too!) 
I got my mom to save us some newspapers so we could make swords while we were learning about fight choreography. It's pretty cool to learn even some basics of how people make fighting look more real on stage and on film. I split the kids up into groups of two and had them choreograph their own fight scenes.
These two just liked whacking their swords together and laughing about it
Goldie and Teddy worked Clementine and Gus and Zig into their little scene and it was almost like a mini-play. Super cute.
Daisy and Junie's fight scene was amazing! They did Romeo and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. They fought with swords, fists, and feet, and were practicing all morning to get it exactly right! It was like a complicated dance, and they did it SO well…I thought several times, "Oh no, they really hit each other!"
(This would be a good place to remember little Daisy getting super into fight scenes as a 5-year-old and saying "I die, I die!" So this flair for the dramatic is not new. 😄)
There was even one part where Daisy slashed at Junie's arm, and she clapped her hand over the wound, then lifted it away and looked at it covered with blood. She had colored with red marker on her hand and arm in that spot, to reveal it at that precise moment, and it was actually SO realistic and somewhat terrifying!
Here is one of their takes of the finished fight
And here is my favorite fight scene ever, by Gus and Clementine.
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