Stone Age

Cooking – ¼ day

Prepare and cook a simple meal. This will involve grinding cereals to make flour and bread, cutting up liver and vegetables with appropriate tools including flint as well as cooking fish in clay.

Working with Materials – 1/2 day

The children will learn about spinning and weaving and weave their own piece of fabric. Your class will build their own wattle fence and daub a wattle hurdle to weatherproof an early shelter. They will attempt to light a fire using materials available in early history as well as learning to use Stone Age tools to split wood.

Dyeing and working with water – Throughout the day

The children will see how fabric would have been dyed using natural materials. Boil sea water to make salt and heat water using hot stones from the fire.

Working with clay – ¼ day

Make and decorate your own clay pot using early artistic design.

Cave Art  – evening 

Learn about the processes of creating cave art from grinding pigment to make paint to making simple brushes. Decorate your own pre-historic pendant and create ancient marks and pictures to tell your stories.