Explore the artistry of spoon carving, and discover the timeless craft of carving, shaping, and refining wooden spoons. Connect with tradition and create a functional and personalised piece of art.

Step back in time and experience the wonders of ancient copper metallurgy! From smelting copper from malachite to creating bronze alloys and casting your own metal object, you’ll be hands-on with the processes that shaped human history.

Learn how to make cordage, a prehistoric form of string, in this ancient crafts workshop. Work with a variety of foraged, wild-growing plants and start work on a coil basket!

Guided by two experienced maille-makers, learn to make your own piece of history to take away with you. Craft a bracelet, patch, and five links of riveted maille to gain hands-on experience of various tools and methods.

Receive expert guidance to create a functional and beautiful working oil lamp, which have illuminated our lives for thousands of years.

Create your own ceramic model of a Manx Loaghtan sheep - an ancient heritage breed who you can meet at Butser Ancient Farm.

A special one-off day of our popular children’s holiday camp - packed with the best activities that the Romans have to offer. Led using knowledgeable reenactors from our experienced team - this promises to be an immersive way to spend the day!

Is your child imaginative, curious, and energetic? Do they like being outside, trying new things, and getting hands-on with fun activities? Send them on a time-travelling adventure at Butser Ancient Farm and let them find out for themselves!  A special one-off day featuring a huge selection of practical activities, including old favourites and exciting new sessions.

Is your child imaginative, curious, and energetic? Do they like being outside, trying new things, and getting hands-on with fun activities? Send them on this special one-off day over half-term, where they can make use of what Butser has to offer on an epic scale. Making the most of being closed to the general public, with site-spanning games, activities and challenges.

Gather by the fire for a session of hands-on history - handling artefacts, skins and braiding your own leather tooth necklace! This introduction to the Stone Age rocks!

Learn to cook some of England’s oldest recipes like sweet Saxon bread, nettle and wild garlic soup, and meadowsweet mead, and feast in an authentic Saxon hall! Veggie and vegan-friendly options included.

Learn the most ancient skill there is: how to prepare an animal for the table. Skin, butcher, and cook a deer using traditional tools, techniques, and recipes.

Create a Stone Age Sewing Kit with natural materials under the guidance of Sally Pointer. Explore the evidence for kits based on archaeology and anthropology.

Step back in time and experience the wonders of ancient copper metallurgy! From smelting copper from malachite to creating bronze alloys and casting your own metal object, you’ll be hands-on with the processes that shaped human history.

Create a Stone Age Sewing Kit with natural materials under the guidance of Sally Pointer. Explore the evidence for kits based on archaeology and anthropology.

Guided by two experienced maille-makers, learn to make your own piece of history to take away with you. Craft a bracelet, patch, and five links of riveted maille to gain hands-on experience of various tools and methods.

Participants will pick from a variety of reliefs and glaze a pre-bisque fired, Celtic lantern. After personalising it by applying glazes, it will be Raku fired as you wait.

Participants will pick from a variety of reliefs and glaze a pre-bisque fired, Celtic lantern. After personalising it by applying glazes, it will be Raku fired as you wait.

Create a functional, relief finger labyrinth, which you can further personalise to your own unique design using various coloured slips.

Spend a day learning various sculptural techniques to create your own artistic expression of a mask, including a variety of slips and mark making techniques.

Create a functional, relief finger labyrinth, which you can further personalise to your own unique design using various coloured slips.

Take part in an endangered heritage craft, and work in a small group to twist your own rope using a hand-powered mechanism. Learn from experienced rope maker Sue Pennison as you are guided to create your own rope trivet - a useful addition to any home!

Join experienced heritage tutor Kat Wootton under an awe-inspiring roundhouse roof to weave your own belt using natural fibres and backstrap looms.  Immerse yourself in ancestral crafts as you learn ancient techniques in the atmospheric buildings of our forebears as you are led in this historic and meditative technique.

Explore the artistry of spoon carving, and discover the timeless craft of carving, shaping, and refining wooden spoons. Connect with tradition and create a functional and personalised piece of art.

Learn the ancient techniques used to shape flint, and create your very own hafted tool with flint, wood, twine, and pitch.