PMM and Cheery made homemade crowns from our Hands and Hearts Middle Ages activity kit. They papier-mached the crowns, then painted them and added jewels. They look very royal, I think. :-)

It's quite an interesting story, how we suddenly ended up finshing our Egypt-Biblical history course, and ended up jumping right into the Middle Ages. It's a long story. The short version is that we are using part Ambleside Online, and part Truthquest history and some other assorted things, but I had noticed how much extra work it was for my son, reading Kidnapped, for example, to follow along when we weren't doing the history. We, or I guess more properly I, had been agonizing over how to get us more fully integrated into using mostly Ambleside, but couldn't wrap my head around a way to make it work in chronological order. I fussed and stewed for weeks, then the Lord dropped the bombshell that He thought we ought to go straight into Ambleside years 5 and 3 next year, and just have a party studying whatever the kids wanted to study this spring. They picked the Middle Ages, so here we are. Not chronological, not perfect, quite a revelation, causing me some angst because it doesn't seem to fit neatly into how I ought to do things, but we are at peace and having fun. So. I need occasionally to remind myself that His plan is the perfect one!