Hands-on: Viking pouch

Make a Viking pouch

The trading Vikings keep their coins and silver in a leather pouch, which they carry on their belt. That way it is always at hand if a good deal suddenly turns up at the market.

You can also make a Viking pouch for your belt. If you have no coins to put in the pouch, then let us just pretend you are a wealthy Viking. Find some small stones and paint them with gold paint so they look like lumps of gold.

The pouch is also excellent for little secrets or amulets that mean something to you. It might be a lucky coin, a beautiful stone, a magical conker or a fossilised sea urchin. Only your imagination sets the limits.