Primary school: P5-P6
School trips
Ribbon Museum of Comines (Musée de la Rubanerie cominoise)
A journey through time to the rhythm of traditional crafts.
A guided tour sharing the expertise of the medieval weaver and the 20th-century ribbon maker.
An evocative presentation, an exploration of the major advances in ribbon weaving, accompanied by an invitation to try your hand at weaving.
• Travel through time to the rhythm of the looms.
• Exercise your visual acuity through observation games.
• Try your hand at looms.
• Other activities: human weaving machine, lace and zip game, Marmouset song and dance.
Skills
• Discover the ingenuity and inventiveness of ribbon makers.
• Learn about a surprising craft.
• Acquire specific vocabulary.
• Experiment.
‘To your looms’: a role-playing game
Everyone to his own trade!
Will you be able to take on the role of a weaver, a warper, a thread feeder, a Marmouset… and find your way back to your workstation?
Apply yourself to the task and earn your workbook!
A unique way to immerse yourself in the world of ribbon weaving and, above all, to imitate the expertise of the ribbon maker and so many other trades involved…
• Experience all the skills of a ribbon maker through role play.
• Exercise your visual acuity through observation games.
Skills
• Discover the ingenuity and inventiveness of ribbon makers.
• Learn about a surprising craft.
• Acquire specific vocabulary.
• Experiment.
- € 7 per child (per group of 20 children)
- 2,0 hours
Plugstreet 14-18 experience
Guided tour of the Interpretation Centre
The Centre offers a very instructive interactive scenography.
With adapted texts, touch screens and a selection of often unpublished iconographic documents.
Film, videos and animated maps to capture the students’ attention.
Additional activities (optional)
• Discover objects from the ‘Talking Trunk’ through mysterious drawings and clues.
• Treasure hunt through the woods ‘A Walk around Plugstreet’: search for markers and discover various sites from 1914-18 and places where John, Victor’s young soldier friend, lived.
• Visit the British Memorial and pay tribute to the soldiers who fell in 1914-18.
• Afternoon snack: as frugal as that of the soldiers in 1914-18.
Skills
• Thirst for knowledge.
• Awakening of the imagination.
• Taste for mystery.
• Desire for adventure.
- € 10 per child (per group of 20 children)
- 3,0 hours
