17 Simple St George’s Day Crafts

It’s St George’s Day this week, and time for us to celebrate our Saint’s Day.

In the words of LBG, the story goes as follows:

‘the people had to give all their princesses away so that the dragons wouldn’t attack the villages. Then one day they ran out of princesses. No, there was one Princess left but she was much specialer and they didn’t want to give her away. So the king asked a brave-and-handsome-knight to kill the dragon. And the knight did, so they called him Prince Knight St George and they celebrated him. And the Princess Daisy fell in love and they got married and they lived in a pretty castle and Sir George had to go to work fighting dragons but Princess Daisy stayed at home and brushed her hair.’ Which is where the story became the plot of Tangled.’

 I had every intention of posting a great craft for you to make ahead of the day itself but, alas, we haven’t yet made it. So instead I would like to offer you 17 simple St George’s Day Crafts.

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Dragons

We made easy fire-breathing dragons from paper cups.

Monikka’s Pursuits crafted an amazing Dragon Eye handmade book.

A super loo roll dragon from Ideas4Kids

Likewise Nurture Store has some wonderful dragons made from recycled materials.

Make a Wooden Spoon Dragon like the one on Activity Village

Eat a Dragon. A great idea from Almost Unschoolers

Repeat Crafter Me made a dear little sock  dinosaur, but you could use the same pattern to make a dragon

And isn’t the dragon fireball game from Crack of Dawn utterly brilliant?

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Knights

I love the stained glass knights created by Renaissance Woman.

Busy Bee Kids Crafts makes a foil knight collage.

Little Home School on the Prairie made a super knight’s helmet.

We made some great girls’ knight shields.

And of course, a St George Tabard.

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 Princesses, castles and swords

The Usual Mayhem made a super castle from foam board that they printed bricks on.

Red Ted Art makes fantastically simple crowns from toilet roll tubes that would be perfect for a princess in distress.

And I think that the sword in the stone party idea from spoonful is just fabulous.

Swords can be made from lots of things but I like these Duct Tape Swords from Pragmatic Mom.