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Homeschool Activities
For learning at home, we have a number of resources available online. Check out our Virtual Tour and YouTube channel, where you can learn all about the history and process of letterpress printing through the lens of the Museum’s collection. Or enjoy some printing-based activities with the worksheets and video tutorials featured below.
We would also love to welcome you for an interactive and educational tour of the Museum, whether just your family or with a larger homeschool co-op group. Contact us with your group size to get timing, structure, and price options.
Craft Tutorials and Activity Sheets
Our Learning Department has created a series of videos and worksheets with print-related activities for you to do at home. The team would love to see your creations, so please use #printathome and tag us on social media!
Worksheet 1 – Gutenberg
Who was Johann Gutenburg?
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Worksheet 2 - Apprenticeship
Would you have liked to have been a printer?
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Worksheet 3 - Typesetting
To prepare something for printing all the letters need to
be put together (composed) in the correct order.
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Worksheet 4 - Iron Press
Johann Gutenberg invented the fi rst printing press hundreds of years ago and it was made from wood.
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Worksheet 5 - Wordsearch
Can you find the 10 printing related words hidden in the grid below?
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