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Tudors Alive!
Living History, Tudors at Mary Arden's
Flexible dates - Get in touch to book
Venue: Mary Arden's Farm
Key stage: Key Stage 2
Price : 12.50 per pupil
This workshop offers children a unique opportunity for learning outside the classroom, with a 'living history' experience in which they become Tudors for a day. Children work in small supervised groups in and around the house, learning some of the following Tudor skills:
- making and baking bread
- churning cream into butter
- making tallow candles
- teasing, carding and spinning wool
- learning how to use lucets
- knitting garters on bone knitting pins
- making the bed - Tudor style
- laundering linen using battledores
- tending Tudor vegetables
- making faggots and hurdle fences
- threshing corn with a flail
Booking subject to availability
Maximum 30 pupils per session