I used the teacher’s guide from the Stonehenge website as my source of inspiration to make some hand tools from the Neolithic period of Stonehenge.
Stonehenge Hand Tools: The Antler Pick
I drew a vague antler pick shape out of stiff cardboard:
The children cut some out:
Added some padding (crushed up foil) and covered it in masking tape to imitate the colour of bone:
Stonehenge Hand Tools: Calf Shoulder Bone Spade
Again, I drew it out on card:
The girls cut them out:
And padded them before covering them in bone coloured masking tape:
Neolithic Arrowheads
In addition to the above tools, I also made some Neolithic arrowheads:
I did exactly the same as before. Drew them out:
The girls cut them out with a bit of help from me:
And covered them in masking tape:
A great addition to our Stonehenge learning:
Further posts:
How to Make Bronze Age Artefacts
2 responses to “How to Make Stonehenge Hand Tools”
Oh these are so much fun! I’m pretty sure my boys would have turned them into weapons to hit each other though.
[…] We made some tools and arrowheads which would have been used during this timespan. These were simple to make and I describe how in the following post: How to Make Stonehenge Hand Tools […]