Welcome to the History Detectives Club
Explore the past
Where kids can learn about history from original sources.
Craft Ideas
Make your own History Detectives Badge
Make your own History Detectives Badge
Make your own History Detectives Badge
Think about what history means to you? Is it a castle? A soldier? A queen? A tomb? Design a badge in cardboard, cut it out, then use some tape and a safety pin to turn it into something you can wear!
Create your own coat of arms
Make your own History Detectives Badge
Make your own History Detectives Badge
Once you have learned about coats of arms, why don't you create your own? Don't forget the rules on colours! What do you think represents your family?
Make a Viking Brooch
Make your own History Detectives Badge
Create a map of a drawing of your area in 1021
Why don't you try and make a viking brooch? This one was made using card with string stuck down in a pattern and then covered in foil.
Create a map of a drawing of your area in 1021
Create a map of a drawing of your area in 1021
Create a map of a drawing of your area in 1021
What do you think the area that you live in looked like a thousand years ago? Before cars, modern houses and trains? Use your imagination to create a map of the area in 1021, before the Norman invasion of Britain.
Draw a Tudor Farm
Create a map of a drawing of your area in 1021
Make an Elizabethan Pomander
Once you have completed the Thomas Bateman story, could you have a go at drawing his farm?
What animals did he have? How much land? What do you think the farmhouse would have looked like? What did he get from his animals?
What do you think Thomas looked like? What sort of clothes did he wear?
Remember there is is no right of wrong way to draw Thomas Bateman. We don't have any pictures of him, so we don't know what he looked like. Use your imagination!
Make an Elizabethan Pomander
Create a map of a drawing of your area in 1021
Make an Elizabethan Pomander
It could be very smelly in Elizabethan times. Animals (and people!) often when to the loo outside in the street and people washed a lot less often than we do now. To try and avoid all those bad smells, people used to make pomanders. Why don't you have a go? In Elizabethan times, people would place herbs and spices in a little muslin cloth, or in a metal ball perforated with holes (so the smell could escape) and carry it around with them. Have a look in your kitchen. You may have some of the same herbs and spices as the Elizabethan's used, such as mace, cloves, cardamon, coriander and nutmeg. To make a pomander, find a small piece of material and place pinches of your favourite smelly flowers, herbs or spices in the middle and wrap in this up to create a ball. Tie with some string or ribbon and you have your very own portable sweet smell to carry around.