Activity for primary school at The Viking Museum Ladby

If the weather is hot and dry, the activity will involve seamanship in the Viking Age and the students get to test their collaboration skills. Our ship is on land, but must now be pulled to the water and prepared to sail with oars, anchors and ropes, etc. This can’t be done by just one person, but with the help of a mate we will learn the amount of arm strength and co-operation skills it took to be a sailor for The Ladby King. Together we get sweaty foreheads, smiles on our lips and at the same time learn about life in the Viking Age among kings and sailors.

Shared Educational Goals – History and Sports:

• The students gain knowledge about the social conditions of the Viking Age.
• Students actively collaborate on versatile, sporting activities.
• Students participate in a historical sports culture.

If the weather is bad and cold, we go inside the museum and focus on the Vikings’ craftsmanship. When it was dark, Ladbykongen lit his house with precious beeswax candles. We must roll our own beeswax candles with Viking Age materials and tools. We have to work with a specific craft and along the way we also learn about life in the Viking Age. Because why were beeswax candles only for the rich, and what did beeswax candles have to do with the shift from Norse mythology to Christianity? The students have to work together in pairs, and each student gets a honey-scented candle to take home.

Shared Educational Goals

History and Crafts & Design: