• The session takes place in the Dairy. This is an octagonal, tiled Victorian building, built in 1862.
• The session leaders are in Victorian Dairymaid costume. They talk about the life of a Victorian Dairymaid and demonstrate the dairy artefacts (if appropriate trying a costume and the yoke and buckets onto a member of the group).
• Hands on butter making activity. The children make butter, usually in pairs, by beating cream in a bowl.
• The children shape their butter using Scotch hands (butter pats) and butter moulds.
• This is a popular session; children are delighted with their seemingly magical creation of butter. (The children do not eat their butter because of health and safety considerations).

Charge:
£1.50/child for Education Group Members

£1.75/child for non-members

Curriculum links
Science: 
Irreversible processes

History: 
Victorians

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