Victorian dairymaid talk with butter making KS 1
& 2
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).
