Arts Award Log Book Belongs To: Name Age Date Started Date Finished

Discover historic buildings, traditions and people at Chiltern Open Air Museum This Arts Award Log Book belongs to: Name Age Date started Date finished Colour in the scarecrow Arts Award When you have completed all three parts please hand your Start your Arts Award Discover booklet into the Museum’s ticket office. Your Arts Award will be assessed by our certified team and you will be there are three parts: sent a certificate that you can show your friends and family. A Discover B Find out C Share Discover the arts all around Find out about creative Share what you enjoyed. you. Take part in creative people and their work. activities. Fill in your LETS GO book any way If you have a bag, you can use it to carry you prefer: you can draw, any art that you make, or put in any other write, stick in photos or add interesting arty things. things that you have made. Are you ready to discover? Page 2 #ChilternOAM @ChilternOAM www.facebook.com/ChilternOpenAirMuseumEvents I am at the Museum with... This is me Draw yourself, stick in a photo, or write about your favourite things. I enjoy... My favourite things are... One creative activity i would like to try is... Page 3 Part A arts are all around us. As you walk around the Museum look out for all the different types of art that you can of? discover. ink th ou y What arts do you enjoy? n ca s Draw or write about rt them in this box. a e v ti a e r c t a h W On the next page is a map of the Museum. Use the gold stars to show where you can see different types of Art. Page 4 Discover the art in our buildings Caversham Public Convenience Maidenhead Pavilion Sewell Nissen Hut 1947 Amersham Prefab 1926 1918 - 1939 1906 1894 Thame Vicarage Room Hill Farm Barn Harpenden Well Head 1840 1854 1882 1887 Haddenham Croft Cottage Leagrave Cottages Henton Tin Furniture Factory 1770s Chapel Garston Forge 1860 1886 1826 High Wycombe Toll House 1550 17th century Skippings Barn 17th 50AD century Northolt Barn 1595 Arborfield Barn Iron Age Roundhouse Page 5 Astleham Manor Cottage Treasure Hunt Fun As you walk around the Museum look out for all the different art forms on this page and write down where you find them. Something made from iron Place a sticker on the colour map next to the buildings that you like best. Rag rug Re-enactor Can you find Photograph Storytelling Map Brick work any more art forms? Music Thatch Lace making Wooden furniture Ceramic pot Knitting Page 6 Taking part: Choose at least 4 activities to finish from pages 6 - 10. Try them all if you can. There are lots of trees and plants around the Museum. Use the spaces below to make rubbings; you can also draw or stick in the different leaves you can find. (Remember not to pick plants that are growing - only use leaves that have fallen naturally.) Draw an insect next to your favourite leaf. Challenge Can you doodle on one leaf to create Page 7 a woodland creature? The buildings you see at the Museum were all built and used somewhere else. They were given to the Museum and rebuilt here in a traditional way. In 1976, this Museum was founded by volunteers. The aim of Chiltern Open Air Museum is to rescue the houses and workplaces of ordinary people who lived and worked within the Chiltern Hills. All these buildings were in danger of being demolished, so we moved them here bit by bit, then put them back up again like giant 3D jigsaw puzzles. This is a window from our Write Tea Room. Draw designs What other forms of art and design on the teapots on the can you see in the Tea Room? Decorate windowsill. Page 8 On this page are some of the windows from the buildings. Can you recognise which Discover Investigate building each window belongs to? 1 2 3 Building Building Building Draw, photograph, or write a poem about what you can see Illustrate through each window. Page 9 If you can’t find the answers look on page 13. Imagine sitting in the old leather Look Look for the clock in the chair in Leagrave Cottage. prefab. Can you draw what time it is? Write a poem about what you might see, Write feel, smell, hear or taste. Design Design a new patchwork bedspread for the child’s bed in the Toll House. Page 10 There are often creative activities going on at the Museum. Record any that you have joined in with on this page. This is how i did it I enjoyed... I can now One thing i had fun T Well done, his is w at I did you have completed h trying... Part A Page 11 Part B Find out about a creative person. There are many traditional crafts people who lived and worked in our buildings. You may see people who still work in this way. Find out about one of them. You’ll find additional information at www.coam.org.uk Straw plaiting I will find out about... Luton was famous for making straw hats Blacksmiths Furniture factory in Victorian times. Families in A blacksmith’s forge When the furniture Leagrave made long lengths of is where iron or steel is factory was first opened, plaited straw to sell. Children were heated, hammered and bent to it was used for assembling sent to ‘plait schools’ from three make tools, horseshoes or bits and chairs. Chair legs were bought from years old, although these weren’t pieces for people’s homes such as people called bodgers (skilled men like schools today. Very few taught candlesticks. who worked in huts in the woods). reading and writing, and children They ‘turned’ legs on equipment called had to make 18 metres of neat, Blacksmiths were thought to have a pole lathe. A foot-operated pedal even plait every day - slightly longer magical powers - they could change with string or a wheel attached spun a than a double-decker bus! metal with smoke and fire. It could piece of wood really quickly, and the take seven years to become a bodger used a sharp chisel against it Straw plaits were made into hats blacksmith. The work was long and to shape it smoothly. It’s harder than it - can you find one in Leagrave tiring, and you could get burns from sounds! cottage? the steam and hot metal. Page 12 Read Brian’s story, which you can find in the furniture factory The artist... The artists work... Picture I found out... Well done you have completed Part B Page 13 Prefab Amersham 3) Cottage Leagrave 2) House Toll Wycombe High 1) 9. page for answers Building nj of... Part C Share have e oyed . ud I .. ro p m One thing i a experienced at the I Museum... rk with ... y wo d m re ha s My favourite art forms here are... I . .. it ared ow i sh Page 14 This is h Other people i would like to share my One thing i would work with are... try again is... Well done! You have completed part c. Now hand Please send my certificate to: this log book in at the Museum ticket office. You can buy a SAE from the ticket office if you’re unable to return at a later date to collect your certificate. Chiltern Open Air Museum, Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, HP8 4AB 01494 871 117 [email protected] www.coam.org.uk Chiltern Open Air Museum is a registered charity no. 272381.

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