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    11. Take some leftover card and draw a rectangle measuring 8 inches by 2 inches and cut it out. This will be your nose piece.
    12. Take your helmet and carefully bend in the triangles until they meet in the middle to make a tall dome shape. Stick these together using tape. Don’t worry if this looks messy—you won’t be able to see this when you’ve finished.

    13. Use more tape to stick your cone shape to the top of your helmet. It should cover up the joined tops of your triangles and make your helmet more secure.
    14. Your helmet is almost finished. Take the nose piece and bend it in half lengthwise so that the two plain edges meet. Unfold it again. This should have made a ridge down the middle. Tape this to the inside of your helmet.

How To Act In A Shakespearean Play
    In front of you appears a man with a pointy beard and a twirly mustache. He is pacing around, tugging at his hair, and muttering to himself. You have landed backstage at the Globe Theatre in London, and this is William Shakespeare, who will become probably the most famous playwright in history.
    Right now, however, Shakespeare’s in trouble. Halfway through a performance of his new play, one of his actors has rushed offstage. The boy has a green face, he’s holding his stomach, and groaning about eating one too many eel pies.
    The Show Must Go On
    Just then, Will spots you and decides you’d be the perfect replacement. Before you know it, he’s shoving a script in your hand and giving you a few acting tips:
    â€¢ Speak up. The audience sitting up in the highest gallery are a long way away. If you breathe in from just above your belly button and fill up with air, your voice will be much stronger and travel much farther without needing to shout.
    â€¢ Speak clearly. Pronounce your words more precisely than you would normally. If you talk too quickly or slur your words, the audience won’t be able to understand you and will get bored.
    â€¢ Look around. The Globe Theatre is circular and the audience is on three sides of the stage, so you need to move your body so you can be seen by everyone.
    If you follow these tips, hopefully, the 3,000-strong audience won’t get bored. If they do, watch out. Rowdy Elizabethan audiences will throw things. If you see any food flying through the air—duck, or you could get a rotten turnip in the face.

    How To Stage A Fight
    William Shakespeare has written plays about love, war, witches, murders, ghosts, and shipwrecks—anything to keep his audience interested. He loves to write about fights. The play is Macbeth and has a great fight scene. William quickly tells you how to stage a fight so you can take part in the play onstage right now.
    Every single move in a stage fight is planned out and rehearsed over and over again. Read his tips and practice with a friend:
    1. Arm yourselves. Remember that the whole point of your stage fight is that neither of you gets hurt. So, choose your weapons carefully. The long cardboard tubes you get in wrapping paper are ideal.
    2. Decide why you are fighting. This will provide drama. Perhaps one of you is the king and the other is wanting to steal his throne, or you could be pirates fighting over a pot of gold.
    3. Find a good place to rehearse, like a yard or park, then you can start to create your fight.
    4. Be entertaining. If you both just go whack, whack, whack with the swords, it will be boring. Swing around things. Jump off things. Use props: Maybe one of you can drop his sword and be forced to use something else to fight with. Be inventive.
    5. Once you have worked out your moves, rehearse them slowly at first until you are sure you both know them in the right order. Then speed them up, and gradually work the fight up to full speed.
    Top Tip: Don’t forget the sound effects. Grunts, gasps, and shouts are all good. To make it sound really authentic, say things like “Alack!” or “I’m slain.” Dying