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We are passionate about Prehistory and have decided to make these resources available not just to our customers, but to any teachers and home educators who wish to use them!

Even if you are not a customer of ours yet, please feel free to use these resources, and share them with any other teachers, groups, or even parents!

  Documents and Worksheets

We have prepared a number of great documents and worksheets for you to use in your learning.  

- Learn about the prehistoric timeline

- Colour in pictures of Stone Age life

- Learn about tools, weapons, art, people, and homes

- Listen to readings of The Wolf Brother

- Make Stone Age sculptures and jewellery

- Complete our Creative writing printable sheets

When you are done be sure to download the survival skills page and learn about all the uses of animals.

We recommend starting with the teacher's guide which is a 9-page walkthrough of learning and activities from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

 Whilst you are here...

...we would love to quickly introduce to you our Stone Age School visits . 

We have been teaching children about the Stone Age for over 7 years. We pride ourselves on delivering  an entertaining, imaginative experience which will transport your class back in time!

Below are the fantastic experiences we offer to schools.

Stone Age Cave Extravaganza !

The day will take place in our specially designed outdoor classroom, a richly immersive environment that your class will never forget.

" Small schools" classroom experience

 the ideal option for smaller year groups, and smaller schools. time travel on a budget, archaeology & facial reconstruction school experience  , dig up a bog body, excavate a neolithic hearth, and rebuild the faces of your ancestors.

 Project this onto a wall...

...to show the children how big and daunting it might have been to hunt these animals.

You can also project them onto a wall, draw around them and colour in to make fantastic big displays!!!

Video Library   (click on the picture links to a private area on YouTube.)

A magical look at how fire was made by our ancient ancestors!

5.26 minutes  

Experience a frightening night in the stone age ... What's that moving in the pitch dark of the cave?... 3.48mins

A look at the Hunting aspect of Stone Age life. 7.03 minutes

Timeline; Paleolithic to  present. A look at the last 4 million years of human history!

A Brief look at the history of Music. Why don't  your class have a go at creating  their own stone age sounds?

Creative writing

This video presentation of chapter 1 kicks off our creative writing 'story starter.  

PDF document; chapter1 and suggestions for further chapters. With illustrations.

Large printable PDF storyboard images

Small printable storyboard images.

Similes  and metaphors; A video presentation of how, and why to use similes  and metaphors in creative writing.

Useful images This is a small selection of some of our equipment, print and show!!

Wolf brother by michelle paver.

Dramatised  readings of chapters, read by Memma

Chapter 1  ​

Chapter 5  ​

Chapter 6 ​, activities & crafts.

Make a selection of Stone Age sculptures, and jewellery.

Then paint to take home as gifts to parents!!!

Story Time ( Hosted by Time capsule TV story Chest) story videos narrated by Memma the Cavewoman

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Stone Age Extravaganza School Workshop  

"small schools" classroom experience  , archaeology and facial reconstruction  .

Stone Age Day Ideas

Plan a ‘Stone Age’ day with your children and take part in a wide range of activities to explore early human history! Of course, these ideas could also be used as part of your regular History lessons.

Don’t forget to explore  our Early Human History resource pack  too!

If you have any other ideas, please leave a comment below.

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

• Write a leaflet – “How to survive in the Stone/Bronze/Iron Age”. You could use some information from  the BBC’s Horrible Histories videos .
• Research theories about the reasons why Stonehenge was built and write an account of them.
• Write a letter describing a hill fort.
• Read a book set in the Stone, Bronze or Iron Age (e.g.  Stone Age Boy ,  Ug  and  Boy ). Books for Topics also have  a great list !
• Write a diary entry from the point of view of someone living in the Stone, Bronze or Iron Age.
• Imagine that you are a hunter gatherer, following herds of animals. Write a description of a day in your life.
• Share the information on our Fact Cards  and discuss the pictures in  our Image Pack .
• Try  this great nrich activity  about stone age counting.
• Look at pictures of Ice Age animals (e.g. mammoths) – how were they adapted for their habitats? What happened to them when the climate changed?
• Find out about fossils. What are they? How are they formed?
• Make a video report on life in the Stone, Bronze or Iron Ages. Use a green screen to put it an authentic-looking background!
• Play  this Stone Age Survival game .
• Make an animation about life in the Stone Age. Look at this example from Peters Hill Primary:

Design Technology

• Build an iron age cart – what materials would have been available?
• Look at early human homes – how were they different from today? What do humans need to survive?
• Design an outfit for a human living in the stone/bronze/iron age. What materials would they have used?
• The wheel was invented during early human history. How would life be different if it hadn’t been invented?
• Look at some examples of objects from early human history. Look at “The Stone Age to the Iron Age”  on this fantastic site  from the British Museum. What were they for? How were they made?
• Try out some Stone Age recipes. Early Stone Age people were hunter-gatherers, so their meals would have mainly consisted of meat and things they could forage, like fruit. Later in the Stone Age, people began to farm, so they began to eat crops such as cereals and wheat.
• Make a model of Stonehenge.
• Design your own cave art. Try taping paper to the underside of the tables and letting children draw while lying on their backs, as if they were working on the walls and ceiling of a cave. Pull down the blinds and turn the lights off to mimic painting in a dark cave.
• Try mixing up your own cave paint using oil and different types of mud, clay or ground-up charcoal.
• Learn about Stone Age art in this video:

• Research what happened in the Ice Age and the effect that had on humans in Britain when the land became cut off from the rest of Europe.
• Try flint knapping using a piece of soap instead of the flint and some simple cutting tools (clay tools or table knives).
• Bury some artefacts in a tray of sand and let the children have a go at being archaeologists. Provide a paper grid for them to record their finds.
• Get outside and build some simple shelters. What makes a good shelter?
• With adult supervision , build a campfire in a safe location. Try lighting it using flint stones.

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All of the questions on the worksheets can be answered by reading the accompanying text on them. Also check out our collection of interactive Stone Age quizzes and learning activities .

Stone Age Liverpool Powerpoint . A series of large, good quality images. Local theme with info about Calder Stones and Formby Footprints. Ideal for lesson starters and discussion.

Stone Age Cave Paintings Powerpoint . A series of large, good quality images. Cave Art is shown on one slide with real-life depiction on the next. Ideal for lesson starters and discussion. Use this will accompanying worksheet (below)

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Make a Stone Age necklace (there are instructions here )

Stone Age cave art (check out our free lesson plan here )

Mix up natural paints ( instructions here )

Represent Stone Henge using pastels or collage materials (we like this idea )

Celtic designs from the Iron Age

Make a multimedia presentation about aspects of life in the Stone Age

Write a sequence of instructions to program a robot to move round a giant map of a hillfort

Make an animation of one of the many Stone Age story books

Design & build a biscuit Stone Henge (check out  our Stone Henge lesson plan for instructions )

Make some comfortable clothes for Ug from the book Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age

Design & make an Iron Age roundhouse.

Build a prehistoric shelter. Evaluate the materials and construction

Design & create a blanket for the baby from the book  Cave Baby

Find out about the invention of the wheel and build a moving cart

Make a woolly mammoth model out of a milk carton (find the instructions in our ' How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth' Planning Pack )

Find out where the best places to build Iron Age settlements are and why

Make maps of surviving UK monuments from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages

Find out about the settlement of Skara Brae

Make a visitor's guide to Stonehenge

Make a giant map of an Iron Age hillfort for your programmable robot

Find out about changes from  the Stone Age to the Iron Age

Follow the KS2History scheme of work for Stone Age to Iron Age

Create your own narrative based on Stone Age Boy (see the KS2History Stone Age Boy planning unit )

Write non-chronological reports about an aspect of prehistoric life

Write instructions for How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth (see the KS2History Woolly Mammoth planning unit )

Create a visitor guide to Stone Henge.

Create a newspaper report about the discovery of  Skara Brae

Write book reviews for a book about the Stone, Bronze or Iron Age (check out our book reviews to get you started)

Map out a prehistoric settlement like Skara Brae  on a grid using co-ordinates

Design a prehistoric counting system (like this Nrich challenge )

Work out how many years ago the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages were

Make an accurate model of Stone Henge using scale

Compare the lengths and heights of different prehistoric animals

Weigh different rocks or fossils and record in a graph

Investigate the circumferences of different stone circles

Find out about prehistoric musical instruments

Research Stone Age musical stones and have a go at making your own set

Create and perform raps about Stone Age life

Make up your own lullaby to sing to the baby from the book Cave Baby

Compose music for a journey through a cave

Investigate the rock cycle (we suggest this crayon rock cycle idea)

Find out about how fossils are formed

Investigate materials: stone vs. bronze vs. iron

Learn about different layers of soil (here is a great activity)

Investigate the best material for new trousers for Ug for the book Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age

Learn about prehistoric animals and their food chains

Use caves as a starting point for learning about light and shadows (you could make shadow puppets of prehistoric animals)

Useful Resources

Our popular planning and resource pack contains a full unit of work for lower KS2 covering the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Click image to see lesson plans.

A full downloadable lesson for KS2 about Stone Age Cave Art

A two-week unit of literacy work for lower KS2 based on the book 'Stone Age Boy. Click image to see the literacy pack.

A full downloadable lesson for KS2 about the timelines of prehistory

Stone Age Activities for Kids – Earth Paint, Rock Art and MORE!

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This week we’ve been coming up with fun Stone Age activities for kids! Below you can learn how to make your own natural paint from Earth pigment, rock art and MORE!

Typically on Friday nights after school gets out and we’ve had dinner my whole family gathers in the living room for popcorn and a good film! It’s been our tradition for years now!

We cherish our family movie nights together and one week we celebrated Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation release of The Croods: A New Age !

I’m a huge fan of expanding our entertainment out into hands on learning and travel so this post is PACKED full of everything for you from where to find petroglyphs in the USA, how to make your own natural paint, Stone Age rock art activities, and more! 

Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation  helped cover the cost of craft supplies we needed for this project so a special thanks to them! Click on the table of contents below to skip to the section you want to learn more about!

Table of Contents:

Petroglyph vs. Pictograph How to Make Natural Paint Rock Art Ideas Examples of Rock Art in the USA

Video tutorial overview:

Make your own stone age rock art:.

Making your own Stone Age rock art is so easy and versatile depending on the craft supplies you have on hand! You’ll want to decide whether you create a petroglyph or a pictograph.

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Petroglyph vs. Pictograph:

A petroglyph actually chisels and carves the picture into a stone. A pictograph uses paint to create the artwork. I typically reserve creating petroglyphs for working with older kids.

Pictographs are historically symbols used to tell a story, so they are not typically over detailed. This makes it much easier for kids to design!

Examples of pictograph type designs:

You can also use a variety of mediums for paint. In the section below I will briefly show you how to make natural paint (aka earth paint) or you can use chalk, acrylic paint, paint markers, etc.

It really all comes down to preference, the age of artists you’re working with, and how authentic you want it to be.

How to Make Natural Paint:

*You will need 3 separate things to create your own earth-based natural paint: pigment, binder, and solvent. 

1. Making Pigment

Ideas for natural pigment sources in nature:, rocks/minerals, leaves/bark.

As you can imagine there were no handy paintbrushes and craft stores during the Stone Age! Everything was made by hand, and that includes creating colored pigments for pictographs!

Making your own colors from nature is a fantastic way for kids to realize the work needed just to make a basic pictograph! 

How to Make Natural Pigment Powder:

First, you’ll need to head outdoors and color a variety of colors that you want to try and make diy natural paint with! Also known as “earth paint”, you’ll want to look for a variety of colors!

What you will find will be different depending on where you live! 

Check out some of the items we chose to try and make our earth pigments from:

We used from left to right: Tree Bark, Sand Dollar (We only collected broken pieces found further up on shore – please do not ever collect live shells/critters from the beach! If you’re unsure just leave them be!),  Dried Zinnia and Hibiscus Flower (from my garden!)

Do be careful with this process, the powder will be very fine and can easily be inhaled.

2. Adding Binder

After you’ve made your earth pigment colors you’ll need a to mix in a binder. There are several different ways to do this but for simplicity sake here you can either mix in an egg yolk (1:1 ratio), or flour.

I prefer working with flour when I’m helping kids. 

3. Mixing Solvent

Lastly, use warm water to mix in with your pigment and binder to achieve the consistency you want for your paint! Mix thoroughly and smoothly so there are no clumps! 

There are many different methods, pigments and styles of using earth paints! Some are better for paper due to their light color and work wonderfully in use of watercolor paints, and some work better for wall murals and rocks.

There’s no right or wrong way to do it! Try several different methods and see what you like the best!

Ideas for Recreating Stone Age Petroglyphs and Rock Art:

Creating rock art is fun at any age and can be done with kids as young as toddlers and preschool age! Depending on the materials on hand or age I’m working with I prefer to use:

rocks / large slate + rotary drill ( with adult supervision + safety goggles ) or paint markers

Air dry clay + arrowheads or sticks, salt dough discs ( recipe here ) + paintbrush / fingers, paper + paintbrush / fingers.

You can also create circle discs like these ahead of time and pass them out to your art class.

We also used our natural paint earth pigment to create Stone Age pictograph “art” on paper! 

For tools to carve with we designed these simple arrowhead carving tools with sticks, twine and arrowheads! If you buy larger arrowheads the kids can simply use that for carving but since we had small arrowheads we made this fun tool instead!

Just a dab a bit of hot glue onto the back of your arrowhead and press the end of a stick firmly on. Then hot glue and wrap some twine around the stick and arrowhead and let dry! 

Examples of Petroglyphs and Rock Art in the USA:

In 2019 I spent 2 months tent camping across 9000 miles in the USA with my kids and it was absolutely breathtakingly incredible! I soaked up every second of our hard earned trip.

We explored caves, volcanoes, waterfalls, Alcatraz, the Grand Canyon, Route 66, dug for trilobites, ran on the salt flats, and yes, saw lots of petroglyphs!

My favorite petroglyphs that I’ve seen up close was in Moab, Utah – there are TONS to be discovered there! Below are some examples of petroglyphs and rock art as well as a few places you can see them in the United States.

One of the places I wanted to visit during our stay in Moab, Utah was Newspaper Rock State Historic Site. It’s certainly an incredible discovery of preservation from the past, however it’s a long drive out there and you really need to have binoculars to get a good view of it as the rock is a far distance from where you can reach.

If you want to see an incredible amount of petroglyphs AND a breathtaking view drive along Kane Creek Blvd. in Moab, Utah. It winds along next to the Colorado River (but don’t take your eyes off the road!)….absolutely stunning.

Keep an eye on the rock walls next to the road for petroglyphs! Definitely pull over in Moonflower Canyon to see more up close rock art!

Another place I recommend if you’re in Moab is the Cave Spring Trail in Arches National Park. Even on a hot day you can find a lot of shade on this trail. When we went it was 112* but we still made the trail!

The trail is easy for all ages (but not handicap accessible) and leads to a cowboy camp and caves with prehistoric pictographs.

Other places to view petroglyphs and rock art in the USA:

Petroglyph national monument, new mexico, jeffers petroglyphs; comfrey, minnesota, roche-a-cri state park; friendship, wisconsin, el morro national monument, new mexico, dighton rock state park; berkley, massachussetts, sanilac petroglyphs historic state park; cass city, michigan, puako petroglyphs, holoholokai beach park, hawaii, olympic national park, washington, tutuveni, tuba city, arizona, valley of fire, overton, nevada, nine mile canyon, utah, petroglyph beach state historic park; wrangell, alaska, millstone bluff archaeological area, shawnee forest, illiniois, judaculla rock; cullowhee, north carolina, reef bay trail, u.s. virgin islands, washington state park, missouri, pictograph state park, billings, montana.

As you can see there are quite a few places spanning the entire United States to see rock art in person! This is by  no means  an exhaustive list! There are many places in the USA not listed here to view petroglyphs and pictographs.

Remember, a petroglyph is carved into stone and a pictograph is painted onto stone.

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