Stone Age

In a typical Stone Age workshop, the children will be introduced to ‘Wolf Paw’ who will teach them that:

• They have stepped back more than 10,000 years in time to the end of the last Ice Age.

• People from this period were ‘hunter-gatherers’. They hunted animals such as bison, reindeer, horses and woolly mammoths. They gathered food such as fruits, roots, berries and leaves.

• Tools from this period were made of stone, most especially flint. The children will learn where flint comes from and how Stone Age people gathered it.

• They will get to handle flint tools and flint materials, and tools made of other natural materials such as antler.

• They will witness flint being struck.

• The children will understand that people were organised, family oriented and took pride in their appearance.

• They will see that Stone Age people from this era wear face paint of red ochre clay. They will then have the opportunity to participate in tribal face decorating with non-allergenic red ochre.

• Wolf Paw will give a demonstration of Stone Age firelighting.

• In keeping with the shell decorations on the ‘Paw’ tribe costume, the children will make a shell necklace or bracelet and become members of the tribe.

• They will learn a little about cave art and how some of the first images were produced by children.

• Each child will then have their hand sprayed with red ochre to produce their unique negative hand shape, just like their Stone Age forebears, but this time on paper to take away.

• We finish with a spear throwing demonstration showing how large herbivores were hunted.

This is especially useful when accompanied by a Wildwood’s Stone Age Animals tour, during which the children discover the relevance and importance of Wildwood’s animals to Stone Age peoples.

If you are interested in doing a Stone Age tour please click HERE.