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Long live bamboo sticks
Bamboo is a technique developed by artist Antoon Versteegde. Bamboo sticks are connected with elastic bands to create large works of art. We look at some of his works, and also examine bamboo sticks ourselves to discover what makes them so strong. …
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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Street art: Workshop
Street art is prohibited by law in many countries, but thanks to this workshop the children can enjoy themselves completely legally on the school walls.
As a warm-up, we first briefly touch on the origins of street art and learn the difference …
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Themed tour Hatsjoe… health: About health, hygiene and pandemics in Roman times
There is no denying that Covid-19 is having an unprecedented impact on our society. The Romans too were repeatedly plagued by ruthless epidemics. Based on the attributes of the Roman physician Galenus and the Goddess Hygieia, we take young and old …
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The Little Prehistory: Workshop
If you opt for this playful and interactive workshop, tailored to children from six to eleven years old, depending on the weather conditions, we will introduce you to the hunter-gatherers (until 10,000 years ago) or the farmers. The first workshop …
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Prehistoric clothing workshop
Hunter-gatherers were already able to make well-fitting clothing from animal skins. The archaeological find that can tell us more about this is Ötzi, the oldest mummy ever excavated in Europe and extremely interesting because of the outfit in …
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Heldenflix: Workshop
Why are Netflix series so addictive? The answer lies in the earliest adventure novels and how well they have been preserved or not. In an interactive workshop we teach young people from the fourth to sixth year of secondary education to make …
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Workshop Illustration
During an Illustrating Workshop, we choose 1 or more passages from a book that we convert into a striking illustration.
We start with a brainstorm and choose the passage from the book. Which characters, landscapes, environments, feelings, …
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Spaghetti Bridges: Building and Testing
Building spaghetti bridges is a workshop where children have to make a bridge that spans a certain width using only uncooked spaghetti and a heat glue gun. The group that builds the bridge that can support the most weight without breaking is …
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Movement expression
A workshop that is also suitable for teachers during team building or further training.
In this workshop we will work with all the big (and small) emotions. We investigate how we can use our entire body and voice to express those emotions. We try out …Translated by
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