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Craft Ideas Stone Age Camp
Craft workshops on the stone age camp
Everyone can take part in different workshops or in station competitions which helps them learn some techniques and collect their first experiences in life as a Neanderthal. Most of them would probably starve because working with a self-made bow and arrow or with a spear usually does not work very well. Some of them might freeze to death if stone-age clothes were the only thing they could wear. Baking bread, roasting potatoes or producing different colourings from plants and earth, is also part of a Neanderthal’s training.
The important thing for these workshops is enough members of staff available for supervision and advice.
Explanation of the pictures (taken on the Easter camp of the YMCA/YWCA Magstadt, Germany):
- Cutting furs for the stone-age clothing
- The finished simple fur cloak. Time required approx. 30 minutes
- Archery and throwing spears at cardboard animals shows who has a talent for bow and arrow building.
- Rubbing and supplying plant colourings
- Oh well, the Neanderthals probably didn’t look like this. However you can recognise the different colours. There are some bonus points awarded.
- This fur clothing is somewhat Spartan. With temperatures around the freezing point, no wonder that these Neanderthals look very cold.
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