Roman Standards

In Ancient Rome a standard served as the rallying point in battle, somewhat like a flag.  It had an important symbol on the top.
Our materials for this project were sturdy wrapping paper tubes, paper plates, pie tins, gold and silver spray paint, ribbons and streamers.
I did the spray painting before hard, having obtained the paint and tubes from, of course, my mother.  The plates held up better to the weight of the spray paint that I thought they would, so that was a plus. 

We cut out the bottom of the pie tin and they designed their personal symbol to put inside.  At this point we realized that white glue wasn't going to do the job, so we got out the glue gun.  Older students helped the younger with that part.  The hardest part, I think, we deciding what that symbol was going to be.  The Mayor chose his own hand, (so his standard is waving, I guess,) and The Girl chose a peace symbol.  The standard was topped with a slogan-in Latin! 

The final products:  I could only get one kid to show off the finished one, because the other two either didn't finish or met some unfortunate circumstances since.  oopsy.  This is what happens when you tell them there's not going to be a Unit Celebration.  There's much less reason to finish well, and no occasion on which to give the speeches they are supposed to be writing.  Got to say, they love the Unit Celebrations, but with three birthdays in June and their Dad leaving for Central Asia/Eastern Europe next Friday, I just can't do it all.  No one volunteered to give up their birthday though, so, onward we go.  The school year ends when Dad get on the plane (not the best confluence of events), and we dive straight into summer fun!