A school of fish

If one is going to sword fight properly, one needs a proper sword—not just a yardstick ! I was really happy to find this tutorial  for ho...

There's a ton to learn about Stage Combat, and, not being a Theater Person, I knew nothing about any of it, but we watched some inter...

On the day we talked about Macbeth, of course we had to make homemade root beer and pretend to be the Weird Sisters. The children walked ...

We like making paper models, so we were happy to find this printable model of the Globe Theater! Here is the link:  http://www.papertoys.c...

Shakespeare has so many great speeches for memorizing---and many are good even for children. My children especially wanted to learn the ...

Abe in Chain Mail Our friends told us about a Renaissance Fair happening nearby, which just happened to fall right during our Shakesp...

I asked Sam to give us a lesson on proportion, and how artists' understanding of it changed during the Renaissance. As usual, he gav...

We got the idea of making ruffs from this site . (There are a bunch of other fun ideas on there too.) Once we put on the ruffs, they wer...