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Join us for exciting, interactive object handling workshops for home educated children this spring.

Upcoming spring workshops

Tickets: £3.25 per child (one free adult ticket per child).

Tuesday 4 February – Arctic Adventure

1.15pm–2.15pm | home educated children aged 5–7 years

Discover some amazing Arctic animals as you touch a real orca tooth and reindeer fur, and learn how their bodies help them to survive in their cold habitat.

Learn about traditional Inuit life, from their homes to their clothing, and discover how they use natural resources to survive. Handle beautiful objects made by the Inuit, including snow shoes, snow goggles and a seal-skin parka, think about how they might be used, and identify the materials used to make them.

Friday 14 March – Fossil Dig

2.45pm–3.45pm | home educated children aged 7–11 years

Learn all about fantastic fossils!

Get hands on and discover how a fossil is formed, what becomes fossilised and why, have a go at working out some mystery fossils and touch a cast of one of the most important fossils ever discovered – the archaeopteryx!

Friday 3 April – Textiles: Methods of Making

2.45pm–3.45pm | home educated children aged 12–16 years

Explore a range of textiles techniques which have been used across different cultures in this hands-on session with opportunities for sketching.

This session will introduce participants to different textile techniques used around the world. From resist dye methods such as batik which originated in Asia to printing methods like those used to create Adinkra cloth in West Africa.

Participants will then have the opportunity explore and, in some cases, try on a range of textiles used for everyday purposes, special occasions and performances. Having learnt more about these items of clothing and their cultural significance, pupils will have time to sketch the objects they are most interested in.

To finish, we will discuss textiles as a way of expressing cultural identity and how this can be affected by colonialism and globalisation. We will also consider the environmental impact of the fashion industry and ideas for improving sustainability.

Ticket information

  • Ticket price includes one child with one accompanying adult
  • Tickets are non-refundable
  • Please arrive 10 min before the start of the workshop, latecomers cannot be admitted
  • Only children booked onto the workshop may attend with their accompanying adult. Younger siblings cannot attend as spaces are limited
  • Please ensure you book your child onto the age appropriate workshop to ensure learners get the most out of the session
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