Family Activities

Scotland Street School Museum

Activities took place over the lifetime of the project and enabled children and young people to take part in a range of activities for families which included Zest workshops, a Family Fun Day and taking part in the Subway Festival. Activities such as finds handling and sorting, making time capsules, excavating a simulated dig and making clay piggy banks and pots were offered. In total over 1,170 people attended these sessions.

Design Your Own Wally Tile
Wally Tile workshops were held at Scotland Street School Museum.  These workshops were based on the tradition of wally tile closes within tenements in Glasgow.

Activity participants explored wally closes using lino printing and collograph techniques.  They took their inspiration from finds excavated from sites along the route, photos of wally tile closes, and the ‘landscape’ along the route. The sessions were attended by 70 people in total.

Pottery Making and Kiln Firing Weekends
Two workshops took place which invited the communities of Rutherglen and East Kilbride to make pottery. This was then fired as experimental archaeology at a public event on the Caledonian Pottery site.

Simulated Dig Activities
Between November 2008 and January 2009 visitors were able to take part in drop-in simulated dig workshops at Scotland Street School Museum. 

Activities using the simulated dig were also offered for National Science & Engineering Week, which took place on 8 and 9 March 2008; Summer Activities Week on 14-18 July 2008 and for Scottish Archaeology Month 2008.

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