Tyler and Luke recently took out a new book from the library called The Sunflower Sword, and we have all fallen in love with it. At the moment, we read it before bed at night and sometimes multiple times a day. It is the story of a boy who wants to be a knight, but his mother will not let him have a sword. Instead she gives him a sunflower, which he moans about a bit but then finds that it "whooshes and swooshes" nicely. He has fun with this sunflower sword and pretends to slay all the dragons with it.
But then...a real dragon turns up! He whooshes and swooshes as fiercely as he can as the dragon breathes fire and creates all sorts of smoke. Until...the dragon thinks that the flower is for her!
It turns out the dragon is not so mean after all and they become dear friends. Then (and this is the best part) ALL the knights in the land hear about this and learn that an enemy can become a friend. So, they all come to the same spot and give up their swords to become friends with the dragons.
A beautiful story!
So Tyler and I were struck with a moment of creativity early Sunday morning and decided to make a flower sword (it would have been a sunflower except for the simple fact that we are currently out of yellow construction paper) and find him a "knight's" (colander--same as the boy in the book) hat. He whooshed and swooshed with all his might too, and I honestly can say I totally see how the dragon could think the flower was for her.
Below are some of the pictures from the morning's venture in making the book "alive" in our home. I absolutely am loving this make believe playing stage. Such fun!
