Activity Sheets

The Museum has produced a number of activity sheets for use on site and in school. These are available in a Teacher's Resource Pack which can be purchased from the Museum. The activity sheets are intended to help teachers to plan and run their visit and can be photocopied or adapted as required.

Classroom-based activities for preparatory work

• Fashion activity

• Taking sides in the Civil War

• Bedfordshire in Bunyan's time

• Biographical jigsaw

• Making a quill pen

On-site activities (Museum)

• Designing a postcard for the Museum

• An article about the Bunyan Museum

• * Try preaching from the pulpit

• Finding evidence

• A 17th century kitchen and eating area

• Looking at illustrations from The Pilgrim's Progress.

• * Copying Bunyan's will

• Writing a guide to the Museum for very young children

• * Music activity

• What does The Pilgrim's Progress mean?

On-site activities (Church)

• Stories in stained glass

• True and false statements

Following up a visit to Bunyan Meeting back at school

A project on "Bedford Then and Now"

* Those activities marked with an asterisk should be started at school and completed on site

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Bedford Borough Council

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