05/09/2026
🥰✨ FEELING VERY INSPIRED ✨ 🥰
Had the BEST time at the Family History Day at Liskeard today! 😍
Liskeard Town Council
Super pleased, as we had adults as well as children exploring the crafts and being inspired by the Past 💕
(Apologies, I was busy teaching and forget to take lots of photos!)
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ACTIVITY 1: EXPLORING SELF IMAGE: We explored the concept of identity:
how we see ourselves, but also how others see us. Looking inwards towards the self, we created mirrors inspired by the Bryher Mirror found on the Isles of Scilly in the 1990s, and decorated in a specific style/design and/or with objects that represented the maker’s identity. 🪞
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ACTIVITY 2: EXPANDING OUTWARDS:
Participants had thought about how they thought others saw them, and began thinking about how they see others.
In this activity, they explored the quirks and the likes that made their family THEM. This was followed by making their own family crest/shield; expanding upon their ideas of self-image, and inspired by what they thought best represented their family 🥰
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ACTIVITY 3: GETTING ARTY:
Now, we explored the lighter side of identity, and how it can change over time, by getting creative with faces! Participants used small coloured paper squares to make a Picasso-inspired self portrait, which was then made into a magnet. How psychedelic can you make yours? 🧲
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ACTIVITY 4: RETURN TO SELF:
And finally, we come full-circle and return to the SELF. Participants used foam “Magic” clay to make a small object.
The brief was simple: what object best represents you? This gave them the opportunity to have both a memento of the self, and a memento of their family bonds. Then they had the option to turn this into a 3-D magnet too 🌼
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ACTIVITY 5 (Optional): COMMUNITY
We looked outward again, beyond the family, as we explored what it means to be a community. Participants cut out leaf shapes from a range of colours, and wrote on it one of 3 things:
- Their family’s favourite food, activity, memory, or place. The idea was to make all of these family “leaves” into one big COMMUNITY FAMILY TREE.
How we are all different leaves, but we all come from the same tree. 🌳
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We love doing structured workshops, so please do get in touch, if you would like to book us for a session at our school for one of our interactive Curriculum-enhancing workshop with a real Archaeologist! One that incorporates relevant arts & crafts activities, goes beyond the Curriculum into Cornwall’s place in the wider context, yet also discusses what was happening in YOUR local area, and specific finds found close by to YOUR school! 🏫
Bespoke workshops available 🐾
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We really believe in our pedagogical approach, here at Lore & Piece, and truly want the children to learn something about heritage, while also exploring other disciplines - especially encouraged is free-thinking, and discussions that particularly resonate with each individual student - in this case, what does Identity mean to you? And what is Identity as a concept in the first place? ✏️🎨📚
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We truly believe that no knowledge exists in a vacuum, and is strengthened by other disciplines and how they relate to its greater context. Archaeology isn’t just dusty objects on a shelf, but a living, breathing, ever present, relevant subject to us as humans.
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Always promoting inter-disciplinary studies - get them started early! 🙈
