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Guildford Museum Pastfinders
Guildford Museum Pastfinders Club
Margaret Jackson (Pastfinders Organiser) and Sue Roggero (Guildford Museum Deputy Curator) organised an Arty Aztecs craft session on 21st. January 2006 in the Museum Classroom: the results speak for themselves!
8 Pastfinders, ranging in age from 8-14, happily gave up their Saturday morning to learn how to make an Aztec feather fan and a turquoise mosaic snake. They’re clearly proud of the results - and rightly so...
The fan and snake craft guides were researched by Margaret and come from ‘120 Great History Projects’ by R. Halstead and S. Reid (published by Hermes House) and ‘Animals’ in the Artists Workshop Series by King and Roundhill (published by A&C Black).
The craft session followed an Aztec workshop with Mexicolore at Guildford Museum in October 2005.
The materials used were all simple and easily accessible: feathers from feather dusters, air drying clay, plastic fork pieces (for the teeth!), stripped electrical wire and glass mosaic tiles (from Homebase).
Teachers should feel free to contact Margaret or Sue to learn more of their work with Pastfinders, which deserves maximum support.
Our thanks to Margaret, Sue and of course to the Guildford Pastfinders for sharing their enthusiasm and talent with us...
Comments (1)
Bawan
20th Feb 2012
This is really awesome. I am doing a project on aztec artefacts and i need a game for end of presentation (its not a ppt) related to artefacts. Any Ideas? Thank you!
Mexicolore
What about a game for matching images of artefacts with descriptions of their uses? One set of - say 12 - image cards containing no clues or captions of any kind, and another set of (12) cards each containing a brief description/explanation of the use of an unidentified artefact. Set one cards all numbered 1-12, set two cards labelled A-L). Game: to be first to match all 12 numbers and letters. Just an idea!
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