How to… make a beanbag bear

A long time ago, in a library far, far away (well The Sir Duncan Rice Library) we made some beanbag bears. We promised to post a How to…  a while back and here it is. Now you can make any assortment of small (or large) beanbag creatures.

 What you need:

• Scissors
• A pencil
• A felt tip pen or piece of chalk
• Needle and thread
• Felt  (black and white for a panda, brown for a brown bear, white and cream for a polar bear)
• 500g of split peas
• PVA Glue
• Copy of our bear template

Steps:

1. Trace around the back and front template on light brown, and the dark brown for the nose and tummy. Try to be as felt efficient as possible as any excess can be reused.

2. Cut out the traced around shapes neatly and carefully.

3. Thread a needle and sew the front and back pieces together, ensuring that the stitches are small enough so that split peas do not fall out. Leave a 5cm gap to pour the peas in.

4. When you have almost completely sewn the bear up, pour in the split peas in. You could use a plastic funnel to help with this step. Sew the bear closed.

5.  Now glue the bears tummy and nose. Add eyes and a more specific nose if you choose. Leave your bear to dry for half an hour, so that the pieces stick on.

6.  Love and care for your bear, and if you want, make him some friends.

Posted by: Alice (the volunteer)

Garden Blast Family Fun

Families escaped another rainy October day on Wednesday to create colourful seed bombs inspired by our “Pharmacopoeia” exhibition. What is a seed bomb? Well it can take many forms but in general it’s a way of getting seeds to areas which can’t be reached easily. In big cities like New York, “Guerilla Gardeners” have taken seed bombs made of paper, clay or even eggs and thrown them onto areas of derelict land to help bring some life to abandoned or neglected ground. You can find plenty of examples online.

We decided to make seed bombs with a medicinal theme, as the exhibition shows how people have been using plants as medicine for hundreds of years. Our seed bombs contained seeds for plants such as peppermint, thyme and chamomile. Participants coloured, shaped and moulded blobs of mushy wet paper (which was messy but fun) into balls and sprinkled their choice of seeds in to the bomb. They also made lovely decorated boxes to keep their seed bombs safe over the winter months. In spring they will throw their seed bombs onto a piece of land and watch to see if something grows. It is a bit of an experiment as lots of things could happen between now and summer. If the seeds are kept somewhere too hot they could start growing too soon, or a bird could eat them. But hopefully some of the seeds should survive and we’re looking forward to seeing the results! We’re going to try it ourselves so we’ll keep you posted.

Here is a photograph how-to so you can make them at home:

1. Choose your seeds.

2. Choose which colour of paper you would like to use in your seed bombs.

3. Mix the pulpy, mushy paper with the shredded tissue paper.

4. Shape them into loose balls.

5. Sprinkle your seeds over the balls so they fall into the cracks and inside the bombs.

6. Squeeze the bombs tight to shape them and get rid of excess water. Then leave to dry. They may take a couple of days to dry out completely.

Our Family Fun participants also made and decorated gift boxes to put the bombs in.

Here’s what some of the children had to say about their afternoon:

“Today I … enjoyed making the bomb seeds it was really fun and we really had to get creative but the best bit was getting our hands mucky in the  water”

“Today I … enjoyed making seed boms beacause we got to mush up paper  it was mushy and i like mushy things”

“Today I …enjoyed making the box. It was very fun. I also liked making the bombs to put the seeds in!”

Our next Family Fun is Wednesday 24th October from 1-4pm, when we’ll be making creepy owl puppets for Halloween. Maybe we’ll see you there!

Posted by: Sarah and Lynsey

How to… make a mythical monster field guide.

At the beginning of the summer we held a Mythical Monsters Family Fun session inspired by some of the weird and wonderful mythical beasts  in the Aberdeen Bestiary. Participants became mythical monster spotters for the afternoon and created “field guides” for imaginary beasts. It was a simple but effective activity that appealed to many age groups so Sarah and I thought we should share it as a “How to…”.

What you need:

• a piece of A3 white card
• a piece of A4 clear acetate
• sellotape
• drawing materials (pens, pencils etc)
• Coloured paper for collaging
• pictures of animals (print out, magazine cuttings etc.)
• scissors
• glue stick
• glitter (optional but messy!)
• Mythical Monsters fact sheet

Fold your sheet of A3 paper in half to create an A4 booklet. Open your booklet and on the right hand page use your animal pictures, coloured paper and drawing materials to create a monster collage. Use the worksheet to help you think about the features of your animal, such as where it lives, what it looks like and how it protects itself. You might want to make up a completely imaginary animal, or you can combine parts of  real animals to create a crazy combination. As you can see below, Sarah combined snakes and a hedgehog to create a “three headed hedgesnake”!

Once you have filled in your worksheet stick it into the inside of your booklet on the left. Make sure you come up with an original name for your monster. I made a “duquiraffe”  using parts of a duck, squirrel and giraffe.

Now that you have the inside of your field guide completed you can create a habitat for your monster. We did this by sticking the A4 piece of clear acetate to the right hand edge of your open field guide. You can then fold this inwards so it lies over your animal collage. Use coloured paper and card to create your monster’s surroundings, such as trees, water or desert. Sarah’s hedgesnake lives in woodland areas, while my duquiraffe likes to live in parks and swim in boating ponds.

The last thing you need to do is decorate your front cover. You can use anything you like for this and make it as colourful or as simple as you choose. Lots of glitter was used during our Family Fun session which added a lovely sparkle.

  

Our Family Fun participants came up with some really fantastic mythical monsters and create brilliant field guides for spotting them. If you make one we’d love to see it. Email us pictures at: scc.learning@abdn.ac.uk and you might even see your monster in another blog post. Good luck monster spotters!

Posted by: Lynsey

How to … make a travel journal

Back in June we ran a Family Fun session where the participants made travel journals for recording their summer holiday adventures, and in the process they learnt some elementary bookbinding skills. The journals were very easy to make and had a professional look about them which was very satisfying. We promised to post instructions on how to make one yourself … well it’s taken us a while, but here they are!

What you need:

• piece of coloured card at least 22cm x 42cm
• 5 sheets of A4 paper
• length of strong thread (preferably bookbinder’s thread) about 40cm long
• needle
• awl
• hole punch
• scissors
• pencil
• length of yarn about 1m 25cm long
• beads (optional)

Step 1

Cut out a piece of card 22cm x 42cm, and then shape it to match the card in the picture below. (Measurements are included in the photograph – click to enlarge). This will be the outside cover of the journal.

Then fold the card to shape the cover. First bring edge A-B over to meet C-H and press down on the middle fold. Now bring edge F-G over the top so that it creates a flap with a fold down C-H. Press down on the fold. Your cover should look like this:

Step 2

Use an awl to punch three holes at equal distances in the cover fold. The middle hole should be midway between edges A-C and B-H. The other two holes should be 5.5 cm from both the edge of the card and the middle hole.

You may find it helpful to place a block of polystyrene beneath the card as you make the holes.

Step 3

Stack the 5 sheets of A4 paper together and fold them all in half, so that they are like the pages of a book. Then unfold them, and make three holes in the centre fold of the stack. The middle hole should be exactly in the centre of the fold (10.5cm from each end). The other two holes should be 5.5cm from the middle hole and 5cm from the edge of the paper respectively.

Now place the paper inside the card cover so that the holes are aligned.

Step 4

Thread a needle, and sew the book together. First send the needle through the middle hole, travelling from the inside of the paper to the outside of the card, leaving a tail free inside.

Next, bring the needle through the bottom hole from outside to inside. Pull taught.

Bring the needle up to the top hole, and send the needle through from inside the book to the outside. Pull taught.

Lastly, bring the needle back through the middle hole, travelling from outside to inside. Pull taught.

Remove the needle, and make sure that there is a tail of thread on either side of the taught thread that runs between the top and bottom holes. Draw the tails together and make a neat double knot around the taught thread. Snip off the ends to make all neat and tidy.

The outside of your journal should look like this:

Step 5

Mark a point on the outside cover halfway along edge F-G, and about 1.5cm in from the edge. Punch a hole through the card (we used a felt punch but an ordinary paper punch will do the trick).

Then take the length of yarn, fold it in half and send the doubled-over end through the punched hole from outside to inside.

Loop the cut ends of the yarn through the doubled-over loop, and pull taught.

If you like, you can decorate the thread by tying on some coloured beads.

Your journal is now ready for you to use!

How to … make a top hat

As promised in our Dickens Dress Up post here is a step-by-step guide to dressing up like a smart Dickensian gentlemen.

What you need

• 1 x large sheet of black card (A2)
• 1 x rectangle of black card (approx. 21cm x 59cm)
• Compass
• White pencil
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Double sided tape
• Sellotape
• Crepe paper
• Collar, bow tie and moustache template
• White card
• Lolly-pop stick, wooden coffee stirrer or similar

1. To begin creating your top hat take your large sheet of black card. This black card should provide you with the brim and top of your hat, with enough left over to make a moustache, collar and bow tie.

Using the compass and a white pencil draw a large circle in the corner of your black card. Then draw two smaller circles inside the large circle.

Here are our measurements for these circles:

Outer circle – 28cm diameter (set compass to 14cm)
Middle circle – 18cm diameter (set compass to 9cm)
Inner circle – 14cm diameter (set compass to 7cm)

Our measurements created hats that fitted most of the participants at our Family Fun session. You could tweak them by increasing or decreasing the diameter of your circles depending on how big or small your head is.

2. Once all three of your circles are drawn neatly, cut round the large outer circle.

Then you need to cut round the inner circle to remove the centre of your brim. The easiest way to do this is to fold the large circle in half and then cut along the inner line. You should end up with a doughnut-shaped piece of card with a circle drawn in the middle of it.

3. Now use your white pencil to draw short lines from the inside of the doughnut to the drawn line, all the way round. .

Cut along these lines to make tabs.

4. Fold the tabs upwards and glue the outsides of them. Attach the long rectangle of card to the tabs to make the crown of the hat. Glue or tape the end of the rectangle to itself to close the crown.

5. Next you need to make the top of your hat. Draw a two circles one inside the other on your large piece of black card.

Here are our measurements for these circles:

Outer circle – 22 cm diameter (set compass to 11cm)
Inner circle –  18cm diameter (set compass to 9cm)

If you have altered the brim measurements to suit your head size then you will need to alter top measurements too. Just make sure that your top inner circle is the same size as your brim middle circle. Then adjust your top outer circle so that it gives you a 2cm border around your inner circle.

Cut round the outer circle.

6. Draw lines from the outside of your circle to the inner line, all the way round, and cut them. Fold the tabs, glue them and stick them into the crown of your hat.

7. The structure of your top hat is now complete! All that’s left to do now is decorate it. First cut across a folded pack of crepe paper to make a ribbon. You can decide on the width you want your ribbon to be, ours was about 3cm wide. Then glue around the base of your hat, where the brim meets the crown and stick the ribbon to this. Overlap the ends of the crepe paper and cut off any excess. Your top hat is complete.

8. To complete your Dickensian costume you can create a collar (complete with bow tie) and a neat moustache.

To create the collar first cut a long strip of black card from the leftovers of your large sheet of card. It should be 3cm wide and be long enough to fit around your neck with a short overlap. Find the middle of your collar by folding the strip of card in half lengthways.

Next use the templates provided above to draw and cut out two white shirt points. Using your half way fold as a guide, stick your points to the back of your collar. We had ours pointing up the way as this was the fashion of the time, but you can decide which way you want them. To complete your collar draw round the bow tie template on to card. We used some of the leftover black card but you could jazz it up with colourful card.

To wear your collar wrap it around your neck and attach it together at the back with sellotape.

The final touch is the moustache. Draw round the template onto black card (or a card to match your hair colour) and cut out your moustache. Stick it to the end of a ice lolly stick, or similar. A pencil would work, we used a recycled coffee stirrer from the Library cafe.

Your costume is now complete and you can proudly pose for a Dickensian portrait like our Family Fun participants.

If you make a top hat of your own we would love to see the result. Send us some pictures to scc.learning@abdn.ac.uk and we’ll pop them up on the blog!

Posted by: Lynsey

How to … make a “Victorian camera” photo album

At our most recent Family Fun event, the children made photograph albums loosely based on the Victorian camera that is on display in the Gallery for the “Set in Silver” exhibition.

This is an easy and inexpensive project to do, but an adult must be involved as the corrugated cardboard needs to be cut with a stanley knife.

What you need

• a photograph of yourself
• corrugated cardboard (we used up old cardboard boxes)
• at least 3 sheets of white A4 paper
• brown card
• coloured card
• gold paper
• glue stick
• scissors
• ruler
• yarn
• needle
• stanley knife (ADULTS ONLY)
• hole punch

1. Cut out two rectangles of corrugated cardboard and 6 rectangles of white paper 14 cm x 16.5 cm.  This step requires a stanley knife and should only be done by an adult.

With each piece of cardboard, bend one of the shorter sides to crease it 2.5 cm from the edge.  Now punch the cardboard in the middle of the creased ends, and do the same with the paper.  These will be the outside covers and paper leaves of your album.

2. Next measure and cut out 2 squares of brown card and 2 squares of coloured card (your choice of colour), each 14cm x 14cm.  Glue the brown squares on one side of each piece of corrugated card, and the coloured squares on the other side, leaving the strips with the punched holes free.  The brown sides will be the outside covers of your album, and the coloured sides will be the inside covers.

If you would like to decorate the inside covers of your album, now would be a good time to do it.  Some of the Family Fun particpants really went to town on decorating theirs, like the girl below who wove a fantastic checked pattern with strips of coloured card.

3. Next, cut a length of yarn and thread it into a needle.  Place the back cover of your album on the table, with the brown side facing down.  Line up the 6 sheets of white paper and place them on top of the back cover, with the punched holes all lining up.  Lastly, place the front cover of your album on top, with the holes in line and the brown side facing you.

Sew all the layers together, poking the threaded needle through one of the holes at the back of the album, and bringing it through to the front.  Pull the needle and thread through, leaving a length hanging down from the back.  Now push the needle through the other hole, this time from front to back.  Pull the needle out at the back, and then do the whole process again two or three times, until all the layers of your album are securely attached to each other.  Finish with the needle and thread hanging at the back of your album.

When you have done this, turn the album over, remove the needle and tie a neat knot with the two ends of yarn.  Trim off any loose ends so that your knot is small and neat.

4. The next stage is to draw the ‘lens’ for the front of your camera album.  For this, you will need to draw two circles on a piece of gold paper, one inside the other.  We drew around the top and bottom of a plastic cup, so the diameters of our circles were about 5cm and 7.5 cm.
Then cut the circles out to make a gold ring.  The easiest way to do it is to cut around the outside circle and then fold the circle in half, with the pencilled side facing outwards.  Now you will see a semi-circle.  Cut this out, making sure you cut through both layers.  When you unfold it, you will have a gold ring.

5. Place the gold ring on your photograph so that you can see your face through the hole in the middle of the ring.  Draw round the outer edge of the ring onto your photograph, and cut the circle out.

6. Now glue the back of your photograph and stick it down in the middle of the front cover of your album.  Glue the gold ring carefully over it so that it looks like you are ’behind the lens’ of the album.

Your album is now completed.  You can decorate the outside further if you like.  We stuck gold circles on ours to make them look like the screws on the Victorian camera.

And it doesn’t have to be just a photo album.  Some of our Family Fun particpants turned theirs into sketch books instead and drew pictures in them.

Thanks to our lovely volunteer Emma for modelling the ‘how to’ shots.

Posted by: Sarah and Lynsey

How to … make a paper plate fish

Making a paper plate fish is easy and inexpensive, and it’s a great way of using up scraps.  We made lots of colourful fish at our most recent Family Fun event.  The children hung them up on string so that they looked as though they were a shoal swimming across the Library windows.

What you need

• A small paper plate
• scraps of tissue paper
• scraps of colourful foil and transparent paper (we used sweetie wrappers)
• a scrap of white paper
• scissors
• pencil
• string
• glue stick (or PVA glue and glue spreader)
• hole punch (optional)
• glitter

1. Fold the paper plate in half neatly.  The straight folded edge will be the top of your fish, and the curved edges will be the underbelly.  Unfold the plate again and lay it face down.

2. Spread the back of the plate with glue and cover with coloured tissue paper.

3. Cut out scales from the foil scraps and stick them onto your fish.

4. To make the eyes, draw two circles on to the scrap of white paper and cut them out.  Draw pupils in the middle of the eyes and glue the eyes on to the fish, one on each side.

5. Now fold your fish together again, and on one side draw a triangle coming in from the edge, slightly beneath the level of the eyes.  Cut this out with scissors, making sure you cut through both sides of the fish at once.

When you unfold the plate, there should be two symmetrical triangles cut out from it.

6. Now cut out two fins and a tail from the scraps of transparent paper.  You can make them more interesting by cutting into the edges.  Glue a fin to each side of the fish and glue one edge of the tail to the inside of the plate so that it streams out behind.

7. Now fold the plate together again, and punch a hole near the top edge of the fish, in the centre.  We used a hole punch designed for leather and felt, but you can use an ordinary paper punch or push a pencil through the paper plate instead.  Cut a length of string and thread it through the holes.

8. As a finishing touch, you can spread some more glue on your fish and dust it with glitter.  Your fish is now ready to be hung up so it can start swimming!

If you make a paper plate fish at home using our instructions, we’d love to see it. Send us a photograph of your fish and we can pop it up on the blog. Our email address is scc.learning@abdn.ac.uk.

Our next Family Fun event will be on Wednesday 11th April from 1pm to 4pm. Drop in and make your own photograph album inspired by the old camera in the exhibition. You’ll find us in the Events Area behind the Gallery.

Posted by: Sarah

How to … make a Highland targe

Our new exhibition “Set in Silver” opens tomorrow so today we are bidding goodbye to the Jacobites with our final Jacobite themed “How to…”.

A targe is a round shield usually made of wood, leather and brass. Highlanders would have carried these into battle to defend themselves against swords, bayonets and bullets. They had a metal cone called a shield boss in the middle, to strengthen the shield and deflect sword thrusts. Sometimes they had a long, sharp spike attached to the boss which could be used as a weapon. They were often decorated with brass studs and the leather often had designs carved into it. Here is an example from Kings Museum’s collection.

To make your own Highland Targe you will need:

• 2 circles of corrugated card measuring 35cm in diameter
• 1 strip of corrugated card measuring 40cm x 5cm
• Stanley knife or scalpel (ADULTS ONLY)
• Roll of sellotape
• Roll of double sided tape
• Gold card
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Pritt stick
• PVA glue and spreader
• Brown tissue paper
• Gold paper

1. Using the Stanley knife cut 2 parallel 7cm slits in one of your circles of card, 9cm in from the edge, as seen below. This step should be done by an adult.

2. Pass the strip of card through the slits, leaving enough room for your hand between the strip and the circle. Turn your circle over and tape the ends of your strip down to secure it. You may need to cut off excess card.

3. Using double-sided tape stick two card circles together, making sure that your handle is on the outside. Original targes were made using two circles of wood. They would be attached together with the grain running in opposite directions to make it very strong. You can do the same when you are sticking your circles together, just make sure the lines in your corrugated card are vertical in your bottom circle and then lay your second circle on top with the lines running horizontally. You may need to reinforce your edges with sellotape.

Next you need to make your shield boss. Draw around a roll of tape on the reverse side of the gold card. Make sure you draw around the outside and the inside of the roll so you have two circles, one inside the other.

Cut around the outside circle then draw a point in the centre of your circle. Cut a straight line from the outside edge right into the point and snip around the edges of your circle from the outside edge to the inside circle.

Bring the edges of the long slit in the circle together until they overlap  and create a gold cone with a white interior.  Sellotape the edges together on the inside and pritt stick the overlap on the outside. Fold the snipped edges around the circle upwards so that your cone lies flat.

Stick your shield boss down in the centre of your targe using sellotape.

4. A real targe would now be covered with a layer of leather. Instead you should cover your targe with strips of brown tissue paper, stuck down with PVA glue. You might need to stick down any loose edges when you are overlapping your strips. Make sure you cover the snipped edges of your shield boss with the brown tissue but leave the cone free.

5. Finally decorate your targe with gold paper. We have used gold circles to imitate brass studs but you could decorate your targe with any shapes or designs you choose.

At our Jacobites…Up in the Hills Family Fun event children made their own targes and modelled them while pulling their best warrior faces.

If you make your own targe at home we’d love to see it. Send us some pictures to scc.learning@abdn.ac.uk and we’ll pop them up on the blog!

That’s the last of our Jacobite themed activities.  We’ll be back soon with new activities inspired by our photography exhibition.

Posted by: Lynsey and Sarah

How to … make a sporran

Our exhibition “Rebels with a Cause” is coming down as we speak but we have just enough time to show you a final few Jacobite crafts before we bid goodbye to Charles Edward Stuart and his men.

During our Jacobites…Up in the Hills weekend children made sporrans to imitate the appearance of a Highland Jacobite. A sporran is a traditional part of the male Scottish Highland dress. It is a pouch that is worn on a leather or metal strap in front of the kilt and Highland Jacobites would have carried personal items in them when going into battle. Nowadays men wear them when wearing kilts to keep anything from wallets to car keys safe while ceilidh dancing!

Our colleagues down in Kings Museum have a real sporran which was ‘Worn by Jacobite at battle of Culloden, 1746”. See how it compares with our version.

To make your own sporran you will need:

• Copy of our sporran template
• One piece of 21cmx30cm felt  (we used brown as we were being traditional but you could use whatever colour you fancy.)
• Scissors
• Leather hole punch (optional: we used this as we were using plastic needles, metal needles should pass through felt without a pre-punched hole)
• Yarn
• Needle (plastic or metal)
• Beads
• Scrap material or felt for decoration
• Velcro
• PVA glue and spreader

1. Cut out the sporran template and draw round the three shapes onto your piece of felt using a pen or pencil.

2. Cut out the shapes from the felt and using your template as a guide mark the holes round the edges.

3. OPTIONAL: Use the leather hole punch to punch the holes from the felt.

4. Cut a length of 180cm yarn and thread it through your needle.

5. Lay the belt loop on top of the back section of the sporran, making sure to line up the marked or punched holes.

6. Leaving a 5cm tail at the beginning, sew the belt loop on to the back section of the sporran.

Repeat so top of belt loop is held in place by 2 neat stitches.

Take your thread straight down to the hole below and secure the bottom of your belt loop in the same way.

When you have finished leave a 5cm tail and snip the excess yarn off. Tie your tails together to secure your stitches. Don’t worry if it isn’t very neat, the knot will be on the inside of your sporran.

7. Place the back section of the sporran on a table with the belt loop facing down. Tie a knot in the end of your yarn. Push your needle through the felt from front to back, making sure your knot stays on the inside of your sporran.

8. Lay the front section of your sporran on top of the back section. If you have pre-punched your holes, make sure they line up. Bring the yarn around to the front and push it through both layers of felt from front to back. Repeat this step one more time.

9. Your needle should now be at the back of your sporran. Bring it around to the front of your sporran and push it through the next hole down, going through both layers of felt.

10. Bring your yarn around to the front of the sporran and push it through both layers of felt from front to back. Repeat this step one more time.

11. Repeat steps 8 and 9 all the way round your sporran. When you reach the final hole take your needle around from back to front once more but this time only sew through the top layer of felt. Leaving a tail of 5cm snip off the extra yarn. Tie a knot in your tail close to the hole and snip off any excess yarn. The body of your sporran is now complete.

11. To make a tassle for your sporran cut a length of yarn mearsuring 150cm. Fold the length in half three times. You should have a bundle of yarn with one end made up completely of loops (A) and one end a combination of loops and loose ends (B).

Tie a knot in the bundle at end A. Use scissors to snip the loops at end B.

Thread your left-over yarn from sewing your sporran together through the loops at end A. Then thread beads onto your yarn, we used 2 beads but you can use as many or as few as you like.

Thread the ends of your yarn through the needle and pull the needle through the hole at the top of the sporran, from back to front. Tie a knot in the end of your yarn to secure your tassle.

12. To fasten your sporran stick small pieces of velcro (or velcro dots) as indicate in the image below.

13. Your final task is to decorate your sporran. You can use whatever you like, we used scrap pieces of material and felt to decorate ours but you could sew designs with thread, use fabric pens or bedazzle it with stick on gems. PVA glue works best as it dries clear.

14. Wear your sporran with pride! Thread a belt through the belt loop and wear it over your kilt. Or be less traditional and wear it with jeans or a dress.

Here two of our Family Fun attendees modelling their own handmade sporrans.

And it’s not just for children, check out the lovely Valentines themed sporran Scott (Special Collection’s Exhibition Officer) made his wife!

If you make your own sporran at home we’d love to see it. Send us some pictures to scc.learning@abdn.ac.uk and we’ll pop them up on the blog!

Posted by: Lynsey

Guest book – Hazlehead Primary School

Today we had a second visit from Hazlehead Primary’s Primary 6 class. Last week they were here to take part in our Jacobite storytelling workshop and this week they were back to have a nosey around our stores and learn about rare books. The pupils learned about how we look after our collections and made some really lovely bookplates to take home. Here are a few snaps of their visit.

If you would like to bring your class to do our ”This book belongs to…” workshop, email us at scc.learning@abdn.ac.uk.

Posted by: Sarah and Lynsey