I had so much fun at this party that I thought it should have its own blog piece!!

We had the Young Archaeologists Club Christmas Party at MShed and everyone had a marvellous time!! We started the party with several activities including finds handling, games and we asked everyone what they wanted to learn about next year – suggestions included dinosaurs, the Greeks, trade, the history of medicine. 
 
Professor Alice Roberts joined our party and talked to everyone before cutting the cake I made – and what a nice cake!! Not that I’m biased or anything…
My favourite activity was the string timeline! Using a scale of 1cm to 10years we travelled back through the centuries, zigzagging for metres across the room, with important and memorable events pegged onto the string as we went, right back to the Mesolithic!! Parents came in very handy to hold the string and were able to add a few events of their own!

The party ended with a buffet lunch and watched The Matthew of Bristol, a replica of the English ship that discovered North America in 1497, sail around Bristol’s Floating Harbour…




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