DESIGNING YOUR OWN COAT OF ARMS

Your design should be made up of "clues" about yourself so that your friends would recognise it as being yours.(Click here and print the outline of the shield).

1. COLOURS - choose your two favourite colours for the background of your shield. You may want to include some of the patterns on the other page on your shield.

2. SHIELD - this should include something about what you like to do (hobby, sport or other pastime) or maybe what you would like to be when you grow up.

3. SUPPORTERS - these appear either side of the shield and can be animals, people or mythical beings. You may choose a different one for each side, or have both the same. Choose your favourite(s).

4. CREST - this appears at the top of the coat of arms and shows something associated with your name (however loosely). It could be an animal that rhymes with it or something that depicts it. You could even choose an animal that says something about your character.

5. MOTTO - this appears at the bottom of the coat of arms and would normally be three words describing why the knight would be a good ally. Think of three words that sum up your strengths, or one of your strengths. (Think of the best comments you get on your school report, or how your friends would describe you).

Here is the Coat of Arms the first Lord Cobbold designed when he was knighted in 1960.

Shield: The crowns are taken from the Lytton coat of Arms. The gold circles represent money as Lord Cobbold was Governor of the Bank of England and Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.

Crest: The lion was already associated with the Cobbold family. Its crown is cobalt (Cobbold) blue.

Supporters: Lord Cobbold's favourite pet labradors, Bella and Lena. They were both bitches but the laws of heraldry decreed that on the Coat of Arms they had to appear as dogs.

Motto: "Rebus Augustis Fortis" means "strength in adversity".

DESIGN YOUR OWN COAT OF ARMS
Click here and print the outline of the shield).

 

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