Victorian Historians 9 What You Need A Victorian Park • Colourful parachute • Range of musical instruments A Victorian Funfair • Music or nursery rhyme melodies • Large, soft blanket • Range of PE equipment such as soft balls, hoops, footballs, buckets or baskets • Food items to taste such as candyfloss or toffee apples • Ribbons • A pole • Beanbag stand or bench • Hoops • Cut-out of clown face The Victorian Seaside • Sand and water trays and seaside themed materials such as shells, pebbles, plastic fish, crabs or starfish • Musical instruments • Punch and Judy puppets • Camera • Seaside themed food such as fish and chips, ice cream or lemonade • Video of Punch and Judy The Victorian Seaside Fill the sand and water trays with shells, pebbles and small seaside objects such as plastic fish, crabs or starfish. Guide your learners to explore the sand and water trays with their hands and feet. Use puppets to enact a Punch and Judy scene. Alternatively, show your learners a video of a Punch and Judy show. You can find these on online. Taste some Victorian seaside favourites such as fish and chips, ice cream or lemonade. Take photographs of your learners in Victorian costumes to display in the classroom or take home. I do Like to be Beside the Seaside Learning Activity 4 8 Victorian Historians Setting the Scene Victorians liked to make good use of their leisure time by playing games and sports and going on day trips and holidays. Dress your learners in appropriate costumes, if they are available, or use parasols or umbrellas to hold over them. Find some suitable Victorian music to play to the class as an introduction to the activities. What to Do A Victorian Park Create a Victorian park scene by suspending a parachute from the classroom ceiling to create a canopy for a bandstand. Seat your learners under the canopy and guide them to explore and make sounds with the different instruments provided. A Victorian Funfair Search online for merry-go-round music to play to your learners while fluttering brightly coloured ribbons around and over them. Move your learners around in a circle, if appropriate. Model a maypole dance by weaving your learners in and out around a pole in time to the music. Encourage your learners to participate in a range of funfair activities. For example: Swing Boat – if appropriate, swing each learner in a large blanket. The Coconut Shy – use beanbags or soft balls to help your learners to knock a soft toy or ball from a stand or a bench. Balls-in-a-Bucket – throw balls into a bucket. Roll a coin, or a larger item such as a ball, down a slope. Throw balls through the cut-out mouth of a clown. Hoopla – support your learners to throw hoops over preferred items. Taste and smell – sample some food from the fairground such as candyfloss or toffee apples. Areas of Learning Primary Language and Literacy The Arts (Music) The World Around Us Physical Development and Movement/Physical Education Post-Primary English The Arts (Music) Environment and Society Physical Education
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Victorian Historians 9
What You NeedA Victorian Park • Colourful parachute• Range of musical instruments
A Victorian Funfair • Music or nursery rhyme melodies • Large, soft blanket• Range of PE equipment such as soft balls,
hoops, footballs, buckets or baskets• Food items to taste such as candyfloss or
toffee apples• Ribbons• A pole• Beanbag stand or bench• Hoops• Cut-out of clown face
The Victorian Seaside • Sand and water trays and seaside themed
materials such as shells, pebbles, plastic fish, crabs or starfish
• Musical instruments • Punch and Judy puppets • Camera• Seaside themed food such as fish and
chips, ice cream or lemonade• Video of Punch and Judy
The Victorian SeasideFill the sand and water trays with shells, pebbles and small seaside objects such as plastic fish, crabs or starfish. Guide your learners to explore the sand and water trays with their hands and feet.
Use puppets to enact a Punch and Judy scene. Alternatively, show your learners a video of a Punch and Judy show. You can find these on online.
Taste some Victorian seaside favourites such as fish and chips, ice cream or lemonade.
Take photographs of your learners in Victorian costumes to display in the classroom or take home.
I do Like to be Beside the Seaside
Learning Activity 4
8 Victorian Historians
Setting the SceneVictorians liked to make good use of their leisure time by playing games and sports and going on day trips and holidays. Dress your learners in appropriate costumes, if they are available, or use parasols or umbrellas to hold over them. Find some suitable Victorian music to play to the class as an introduction to the activities.
What to DoA Victorian Park Create a Victorian park scene by suspending a parachute from the classroom ceiling to create a canopy for a bandstand. Seat your learners under the canopy and guide them to explore and make sounds with the different instruments provided.
A Victorian FunfairSearch online for merry-go-round music to play to your learners while fluttering brightly coloured ribbons around and over them. Move your learners around in a circle, if appropriate.
Model a maypole dance by weaving your learners in and out around a pole in time to the music.
Encourage your learners to participate in a range of funfair activities. For example:
Swing Boat – if appropriate, swing each learner in a large blanket.
The Coconut Shy – use beanbags or soft balls to help your learners to knock a soft toy or ball from a stand or a bench.
Balls-in-a-Bucket – throw balls into a bucket.
Roll a coin, or a larger item such as a ball, down a slope.
Throw balls through the cut-out mouth of a clown.
Hoopla – support your learners to throw hoops over preferred items.
Taste and smell – sample some food from the fairground such as candyfloss or toffee apples.
Areas of LearningPrimaryLanguage and LiteracyThe Arts (Music)The World Around UsPhysical Development and Movement/Physical Education
Post-PrimaryEnglish The Arts (Music)Environment and SocietyPhysical Education
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