The Home Front WW2 – Post Workshop Activities
WW2 Post–Workshop Activities
TASK 1: Evacuation
1. Creative writing -Write to your family
Having taken part in The Home Front WW2 workshop at Callendar
House, you will now have some idea of what it would have felt like for
an evacuee being sent away from home to live with strangers during
WW2. Using your experience of evacuation and billeting from the
workshop, write a letter home to your family in Clydebank describing
what life is like living away from home as an evacuee.
Your letter can include:
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Where were you sent to live?
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How did you travel to the billeting area (safe area)?
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Describe the journey – what did you see from the train window?
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With whom did you travel?
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Who met you at the station?
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Who are you living with?
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What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
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What chores do you have to do?
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Where is your new school?
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What kind of activities can you do after school?
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What do you miss from home?
1. Creative writing- (EXTENSION SUGGESTION) - Advanced
Settling down somewhere new felt strange. Some evacuees probably
felt like some immigrants do today.
Compare the experiences of an evacuee going to live on a farm and a
newcomer coming to live in a strange country.
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TASK 2: Evacuation and Billeting Experience:
The feelings chart below can be completed after the class have visited Callendar House and
experienced what it would have felt like to be evacuated in WW2.
Frantic
Sad
Frightened
Very
worried
Definitely
worried
Not very
happy
A bit
concerned
Ok-just
Mostly all
right
Calm
Saying
goodbye
to your
parents
Waiting
to
depart
Getting
onto
the
train or
bus
Pulling
away
After
two or
three
hours
Arriving at
your
destination
Meeting the Starting
landlady/new a new
family
school
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TASK 4: Rationing - Make a WW2 recipe using rations!
Brains Au Gratin
INGREDIENTS
Calves or Sheep’s Brains
ENGLISH MONKEY
(economical scrambled
eggs)
2 Mushrooms
INGREDIENTS
½ Small onion, finely chopped
1oz Stork Margarine
1egg (Reconstituted)
½ pint Milk Salt & pepper
1 cup of stale breadcrumbs
Pinched of grated nutmeg
1 cup of milk
1 Teaspoon stale bread crumbs
½ cup cheese (grated)
1oz Stork Margarine for frying
1 tablespoon margarine
1 Quart of water
½ teaspoon salt
1 tbsp of vinegar
Pepper
Method
1. Soak the brains in salted water, then
1. Soak the
breadcrumbs in the
little vinegar and bring to the boil.
milk.
etc. and break up into small pieces.
INGREDIENTS
6 oz. (160g) Self Raising Flour
2 oz. (60g) Castor Sugar
4 oz. (110g) Raw Carrots
(peeled and grated)
1 oz. (30g) Stork Margarine
1-2 teaspoons Vanilla Essence
METHOD
1. Cream fat and sugar
Method
put into 1 quart of hot water with a
Simmer 15 minutes. Remove the skin,
CARROT COOKIES
2. Melt the margarine in
together, beat in the
vanilla essence.
2. Add carrots
the pan, add the
cheese and when
2. Cook the chopped mushrooms and
melted add the
onion until soft, but not browned, in the
soaked breadcrumbs
stork.
and the egg (well
3. Fold in flour. If
mixture is very dry then
add a little water.
beaten) and
3. Melt 1 oz Stork in a saucepan add
flour and cook until it bubbles. Remove
the pan from the heat and add the milk.
Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and
seasoning.
3. Cook for three
minutes
4. Spread on toast
4. Roll into balls and place
on a greased baking
tray. Press down just a
little.
cook for three minutes, stirring all the
time. Season with salt, pepper and
nutmeg.
5. Sprinkle the tops with
sugar and cook in an
4. Add the parsley, mushrooms and
oven at 200c/400F/Gas
onions and then put in the brains.
Mark 6 for 10-15
Put into a fireproof dish, sprinkle with
minutes
breadcrumbs and put into a hot oven for
10 minutes before serving.
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2. Write (or find) a recipe for your favourite food. Compare the ingredients list with what
was available in 1940, in the ration list below. Could you make your favourite food in
1940?
World War II - One Week’s rations
This is the ration for an adult for one week.
Bacon and ham
Meat
4oz
you could buy up to 1s.2d’s worth per week (6p in today’s money)
Butter
2oz
Cheese
2oz
Margarine
4oz
Cooking fat
4oz
Milk
3 pints
Sugar
8oz
Preserves
1lb every 2 months
Tea
2oz
Eggs
1 shell egg per week. 1 packet of dried eggs every 4
weeks
Sweets
12oz every 4 weeks
Try converting the measurements to metric using the table below.
Dry food measure
Imperial
Metric
1 oz
2 oz
4 oz
6 oz
8 oz
10 oz
12 oz
1 lb
25 g
50 g
100g
150 g
200 g
250 g
350 g
450 g
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3. Make do and Mend!
Rationing in WW2 meant that many items were in short supply. Children often had
to be very imaginative and would make use of everyday items found in the home to
make toys. They used old scraps of material, bits of wood or even the wooden dolly
pegs used to hang out the washing. Create your own ‘Make do and Mend’ toy
below!
How to make a parachute toy
You need: 1 square muslin, 4 bits of string, 1 peg, and 2 lolly sticks.
1. Take muslin and tie the end of each bit of string to each
corner of the square.
2. Put index finger into the middle of the
muslin square and hold in the air.
3. Pull all 4 strings together.
4. Keep hold of strings and lay on table.
5. Separate the strings so you have two from
the same side in each hand (To check this
when the strings are pulled apart the muslin
should form a rectangle).
6. Take strings in left hand and put them over strings in right
hand.
7. Tie a knot (the same way as if you are doing the first step
of tying shoelaces).
8. Take the peg and place it upright and push down over the
crossed string.
Take your ‘Make do and Mend’
parachute toy outdoors to try it out!