Host Your Own Medieval Banquet for Middle Ages History Fun!

Host Your Own Medieval Banquet for Middle Ages History Fun! In “Host Your Own Medieval Banquet for Middle Ages History Fun,” Episode, #190, Meredith Curtis inspires you to host a Medieval Banquet to culminate your Middle Ages History studies. She shares the educational benefits of hosting the feast, along with all the how-tos. Learn about venue, food, costumes, jousting with pool noodles, pageantry, and remembering the rank and file.  She shares funny and poignant memories of their Middle Ages Feast along with some of the bloopers like the roasted pig that looked like Alf. Teach history the fun way with a medieval banquet!           Powerline Productions, Inc. Bringing Homeschool Joy to Families Everywhere!       Show Notes Nothing is boring when you throw a party! How planning, hosting, and participating in history parties is educational as well as fun! Benefits of a Medieval Banquet * Planning & hosting vs. Attending * Crops, food, manners, protocol * Pageantry: family crest, flags * Costumes: royalty, peasants, monks, priests, jester, hunchback, herald * Crowns: king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess, lord, lady Venue Choose a venue. Who Attends * Everyone! Including dogs! * Lord & Lady (costume) * Bishop (costume) * Nobility (costume) * Herald, Squire, Page, Priests, Merchants (costume) * Entertainers such as Jugglers, Musicians, Bards, Jester, Acrobats, Dancers, Magicians (costume) * Monk or Abbot (costume) * Peasants (costume) Setting Up Tables * Above the salt * Royal table * Descending Tables Procession In Herald announces. Priest in front. Process in by Rank. Food * Roasted Pig or Deer (Alf meatloaf) * Wooden Bowls & Spoons but silver for royalty, knives, sometimes spoons, no forks, goblets or cups * Broth, salad, cheese, soup, vegetable & meats, desert (fruit, cake, pudding), cheese * Cider, grape juice * Venison, pork, wild boar, beef tongue, chicken, swan, heron, peacock, pheasant, quail, partridges, crane, eel, fish, rabbit * Peas, rice, broth, soups, dried fruits, eggs, white sauces, white puddings, tarts, jellies, fritters, pastries, and fruit dumplings, baskets of bread Activities * Jousting with pool noodles * Melee (capture the flag) * Archery * Chess Tournament * Ladies folk dancing * Bard performs * Mystery or miracle play Costumes Robin Hood, fairy tale prince & princesses, monks, peasants, executioner, hunchback Resource Let’s Have Our Own Medieval Banquet by Meredith Curtis & Laura Nolette                   Sign up for our Newsletter Sign up for our updates and get your copy of 100 Homeschool Hacks FREE. Sign up here.