Young Squire Training With A Wooden Sword Coloring Page

This squire is barely taller than the blade he is holding. He stands with his feet planted apart, one arm straight above his head so the point aims at the top of the sheet, the other hand resting on his hip. A short cape hangs from one shoulder, a sash crosses his tunic, and a round buckle sits at the middle of a wide belt. Cuffed boots finish the outfit. Nothing else shares the page with him.

With no background to negotiate, this is one of the quickest sheets in the collection to finish in a single sitting. The shapes are large, the face carries only a handful of lines, and a very young child can treat the whole tunic as one block.

The buckle and the sword grip are the two spots where a sharpened pencil earns its keep. Everything else takes a thick marker happily, which makes it a sensible choice if your child still prefers markers to crayons.

A boy in medieval Europe usually entered service as a squire around the age of fourteen. He spent years swinging at a fixed wooden post called a pell before anyone let him face a live opponent, and the practice weapons were made deliberately heavy so the real one felt light.