Learn about Lunasa customs! Find out about the harvest home, the last sheaf and make your own harvest knots.
Level: 1st to 6th ClassGroup Size: 15
Location: Galleries and Activity Room
Duration: 60 minutes
Times: 10 to 11am or 11.30am to 12.30pm
Curriculum Links: History: Local Studies - Feasts and festivals in the past; Story - Stories of lives of people in the past. Visual Arts/Construction: Concepts and Skills - Awareness of shape, form, texture, pattern and rhythm; Strands - Construction/Making constructions/Looking and responding
Learning Outcomes: Discuss festivals in general; identify the reasons that harvest knots were made, know the time of year they were produced, recognize the material used to make them, and see the different styles of the knots; Learn how to make a compass plait harvest knot, and receive appropriate guidance leading to a completed project; Discuss their own work and the work of their classmates; Discuss what the students will do with their completed knot; review the content of the workshop.