Have fun creating all things Roman use your imagination. On this page we have some ideas to set you on your way and you can see we've already had fun creating a few of our Loo Roll characters.

                     

Loo Roll Legionary Legionary - Printer Friendly Download Legionary Answers

Loo Roll Lepidina Looking your best in Roman Vindolanda Fact Sheet Lepidina - Printer Friendly Download

Loo Roll Emperor Hadrian

Hadrian and his Wall Fact Sheet

Hadrian - Printer Friendly Download

                 

Loo Roll Archaeologist 1 Download

Loo Roll Archaeologist 2 Download

Step by Step Roman Shoe

Step by Step: Make your own Roman Shoe

Roman shoes of Vindolanda Fact sheet

Crochet & Knitting - Create some Roman Shield Flags/ Bunting

A great craft activity with a Roman twist. To mark the anniversary of 1900 years of Hadrian's Wall Lynne Barber created the designs for these bunting flags with Roman shield and Roman numerals. The anniversary is now over but that's no reason not to have a go at these great scrap busting designs. Please use these flags as you see fit create your own bunting, use them to make blankets, throws or cushions or anything else!

You can follow the knitting patterns created by Clare who was inspired after seeing the crochet to transform our bunting flags into a knitted pattern. You can download the patterns on her website here.

You can follow the crochet patterns designed by Lynne Barber and make it your own by changing the colours or adding extra details. This would be a great stash busting task to tidy up any extra wool you have lying around. If you struggle to knit or crochet with 2 colours create a plain flag and then sew on a design by hand. Our bunting flags are approximately  10cm in width and 16cm in length if you would like to create your own design or adapt ours.

Roman Shield Crochet

Roman Shield Crochet Instructions

Roman Numeral Crochet Instructions

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Home Excavation Challenge

Use your loo roll archaeologists or archaeo-loo-ologists to help you excavate and discover new areas of your home. Below you can download an excavation report to record your findings. We have staged our own home excavations with our archaeo-loo-ologists where they boldly went beneath the sofa cushions. Have a look at what they found in the example excavation report. 

                       

Wow, your excavations have been so successful they have caught the attention of the press. Create a news story around your excavations. This can be any media you like, a magazine article a video or a story in the newspaper. What was so amazing about your excavations and why does the world need to know? You can see we have created a magazine cover for our sofa excavations and we've had a very special presenter come to learn more about our excavations too.

Excavation Report Download

Vindolanda Sofa Excavation Report Download

              

Mini Milestones Download

Ancient Aqueducts Download

  

Solomon’s Knot Activity Download

Download the Gladiator Glass Craft