Learn more about Greek Pottery using vase templates and sherds from the Museum's collection to design your own vase.
Choose one of three pottery shapes then draw and decorate your own vase inspired by Greek pottery.
Download a Greek Pottery guide to use as inspiration for your pot decoration
It is really unusual for a palaeontologist (scientist who study fossils) to find a complete skeleton with all the bones in the right place. We are more likely to find only a few bones or a jumbled up skeleton.
Putting a skeleton back to together when you know what the animal looks like can be a challenge, but imagine how hard that becomes when there are no more of those creatures alive for you look at. It is a bit like trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together when you don’t have the photo on the box as a guide.
In this activity, inspired by Mary Anning's fossils, learn how to make a geology zine with artist Kaitlin Ferguson.
To make your zine you will need:
- a sheet of paper
- coloured pencils or pens
- coloured paper
- some glue
- fossils, rocks, pebbles for inspiration
Download the zine folding instructions and watch the video below
It is really unusual for a palaeontologist (scientist who study fossils) to find a complete skeleton with all the bones in the right place. We are more likely to find only a few bones or a jumbled up skeleton.
Putting a skeleton back to together when you know what the animal looks like can be a challenge, but imagine how hard that becomes when there are no more of those creatures alive for you look at. It is a bit like trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together when you don’t have the photo on the box as a guide.
A gargoyle is a fantastic carved face or creature which acts as a rainwater spout, pouring water away from a building. This activity shows you how to sketch a spooky, twilight silhouette.
Can you draw an outline of the gargoyle in the photograph or copy and complete the picture of Gizmo the Gargoyle?
All you need for this activity is a pencil and a piece of paper.
Oil lamps were the ancient Roman equivalent to light bulbs. These lamps were made from different materials including metal, glass, stone, clay and shell. Clay ones were very popular and often decorated with interesting designs.
Get inspired by the decorative lamps used by the Romans and create a design for your own lamp.
In this activity you can see busts of Julius Caesar, Claudius, Nero and Hadrian from the museum. Find out more about each one, how they are connected to the history of Britain, and complete the activities to learn more!
At the end you will find instructions on how to create your own comic about the life of emperor Claudius!
The Whipple Museum has a large collection of globes from different times and places.
In this activity, colour in a globe of the Earth - take a closer look, what countries can you see on it?
Other globes in the collection are of the moon, different planets or the night sky with all the stars. You can explore the globes collection at https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-whipple-collections/globes.
In this activity you will learn about mythical heroes and gods, and see their representations in our museum. You will then be invited to create your own hero or heroine! You can also see an example of a hero created by our education team.
You will need:
Are you ready for some colouring fun?
Can you draw some dinner for a venus fly trap, give a little cactus some prickles and make the Botanic Garden fountains go whoosh like never before?
Remember, we’d love to see what you create, please tag us on Twitter with photos of your work @CUBGLearning #CUBGFamily.
