Heraldry 4 Kids - [B] DESIGN YOUR OWN SHIELD

1. Design Your Own Shield Online on the Internet

The Alnwick Castle website offers an online ability to design your own shield. Learn all about colours, styles and emblems. Choose your layout, colour in segments and decide how your shield should look. Click here to access this useful feature.
The Victoria and Albert Museum website offers an online ability to design your own shield for both male and female arms. Learn all about colours, styles and emblems. Choose your layout, colour in segments and decide how your shield should look. Click here to access this useful feature.

 
 

2. Design Your Own Shield on your computer


 
 

3. Design Your Own Shield on Paper


This Knight's shield may offer protection from a fire-breathing dragon, but it's not very colourful or heraldic. You can make your own arms based on symbols and colours that are meaningful to you.

To design your own arms follow the Instructions below. A full achievement (or coat of arms) awarded to an individual, would normally include a shield, helmet, mantling, and crest - in this project we will design only the shield.

T I N C T U R E S - Colours
Red Black Purple Blue Green
T I N C T U R E S - Metals & Furs
Gold Silver Vair Ermine Erminois
 


Instructions for creating your own shield:

  1. print a Shield from the selection below
  2. print some pages of clipart
  3. colour or paint the Shield and clipart (if using paint you may want to print on heavier paper)
  4. cut-out your coloured clipart and paste onto the Shield
Please click on the images below to view and print.
SHIELDS BLANK BEND CHEVRON CHIEF FESS PALE SALTIRE

LARGE DEVICES ANCIENT SHIP BEAR CROSS DRAGON TWO-HEADED EAGLE GRIFFIN SALMON

LARGE DEVICES

Medium & Small
DEVICES
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Medium & Small
DEVICES
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Medium & Small
DEVICES
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Medium & Small
DEVICES
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A comprehensive source of more than 3,000 additional heraldic devices which can be printed locally and applied to your shield. Click the acorn to view the devices. They are alphabetically ordered.


Released: April 30, 2004
Last modified: January 13, 2008