Medieval Food & Feasts means contrasting ordinary medieval meals with rich feasts, and noting hand-eating and the great hall. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.

Materials: Two plates labels: Ordinary meal / Rich feast; Cards: bread, pottage, feast foods, hands (no forks), great hall. 1. Ordinary: bread and pottage. Rich: grand feast foods. 2. Sort cards onto Ordinary / Rich feast. 3. Say many people ate with hands (no forks) and the great hall was the castle’s social centre. 4. Fresh check: child answers one new prompt on the same idea. Record and stop. Done: Ask for one ordinary and one feast idea. Proof: parent note of examples tried and support used. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.