Charnwood Museum online activities

Please note that Charnwood Museum is currently closed for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus pandemic. An official statement can be found on the news section of our website.

We have pulled together a survey to capture the thoughts of Charnwood residents about visiting the museum post-lockdown, and the team would really appreciate your thoughts. 

Take part in the survey

We have adapted some of our activities so that visitors can take part at home. You can find them below:

Online activities

Museum at home - Objects and Artefacts

Become a curator around your home using the guidance below:

• Museum at home - Objects and Artefacts (PDF Document, 0.16 Mb)

Clay Creatures Workshop

This is the time of year when we have our very popular clay workshop at Charnwood Museum, but as you can’t come and see us, we have taken our inspiration from YouTube and found some links to some great videos that will help you create something fun:

• Clay Creatures Workshop (PDF Document, 0.14 Mb)

Make it - Watery whale mobile

Create a beautiful whale inspired decoration using the instructions below:

• Make it - Watery Whale Mobile (PDF Document, 0.15 Mb)

Guess the occupation

Fancy a quiz? See if you can guess the occupation of the people in the quiz below.

• Guess the occupation (PDF Document, 0.16 Mb)

Answers to the quiz can be found below:

• Guess the occupation - answers (PDF Document, 0.16 Mb)

Mask making

Have fun making some masks using the instructions below:

• Mask making (PDF Document, 1.26 Mb)

Make it Reycled - Robot Fun

Make a robot and save the Planet! Full details and instructions below:

• Make it Recycled - Robot Fun (PDF Document, 0.18 Mb)

Museum at home - Name and Logo Game

You are the curator and are opening a Museum at your home. What would you call it, and what would your logo look like? Let us know by using the form below:

• Museum at home - Name and Logo Game (PDF Document, 0.13 Mb)

Chronology Challenge

Have a go at the Chronology Challenge featuring objects from across the Leicestershire Museums family – can you put them into date order?

• Chronology Challenge (PDF Document, 4.02 Mb)

Seaside Quiz 2020

Take part in our fun seaside quiz!

• Seaside Quiz 2020 (PDF Document, 0.52 Mb)

The answers to the quiz can be found below:

• Answers to the Seaside Quiz (PDF Document, 0.24 Mb)

Rhino and Mammoth colouring

Get your pens or crayons at the ready and colour the bones of these magnificent beasts!

• Rhino and Mammoth Colouring (PDF Document, 0.25 Mb)

Make it

Get yourself some card or stiff paper, scissors, pens/crayons and a straw and create a butterfly straw using the guide below:

• Make it - Butterfly Straw Decoration (PDF Document, 0.43 Mb)

Make it - Fish cake topper

Get yourself some card or stiff paper, Cocktail Sticks, scissors, pens and pencils and best of all - a cake! Get making a fish cake with a difference using the guide below:

• Make it - Fish cake topper instructions (PDF Document, 0.11 Mb)

Awesome Archaeology

Get up close to some amazing archaeology! Take part in some fun activities from the comfort of your home and garden.

• Awesome Archaeology (PDF Document, 0.72 Mb)

Astounding Anglo Saxons

Have a go at our archaeology themed game – it’s all Anglo-Saxon to us! We have a quiz sheet and a fact sheet to help you answer the questions. Find them below:

• Astounding Anglo Saxons Quiz Sheet (PDF Document, 0.68 Mb)
• Astounding Anglo Saxons Fact Sheet (PDF Document, 0.16 Mb)

Don't step on a bee

Designed to raise awareness about bees and how to protect them, you can create a bottle top bee using the guide below:

• Don't Step on a Bee (PDF Document, 0.25 Mb)

People at work word search

At workplace based word search to keep you busy.

• People at Work word search (PDF Document, 0.33 Mb)

Football Fever

With the absence of the European Championships but the return of Premier League football, why not have a go at our Football Fever game suitable for all ages!

• Football fever (PDF Document, 0.73 Mb)

Egg Box Flowers

Make your own everlasting flowers from egg boxes in  our recycling art and craft activity.

• Egg Box Flowers (PDF Document, 0.59 Mb)

All a flutter

Birds are everywhere! Can you find them all and complete the quiz?

• All a Flutter Game (PDF Document, 0.43 Mb)

Museum at Home – Word search

Who doesn't love a word search? Can you find every word?

• Museum at Home - Wordsearch (PDF Document, 0.7 Mb)

Museum at Home – Object Detectives A to Z

Have a go at some of our gallery favourites that have been adapted for you to use at home rather than the museum galleries!

• Museum at Home - A to Z (PDF Document, 0.61 Mb)

Colouring activities for children

• Beaumanor Chair Colouring (PDF Document, 0.28 Mb)
• Pliosaur Colouring (PDF Document, 0.23 Mb)

If you would like to send us pictures of your completed activities, please email them to museum@charnwood.gov.uk and we will share them with fellow museum friends on our Facebook and Twitter channels.

Loughborough Carillon Tower and War Memorial Museum online activities

The Loughborough Carillon Tower and War Memorial Museum have created an 'Activities Page' on their website so that children can have some Carillon Tower related fun during the coronavirus pandemic, including a cut-out model of the tower. The activities page can be found at www.carillontower.org.uk/things2do.htm.