Victorians Project
Choose a project to complete at home; you can complete more than one if you wish. These are only
suggestions and you can create a different project if you have other ideas. Hand in before Friday 6th
November. Some useful websites are on the back of this homework.
Design a new coat of arms for the royal family.
Research punishments for crimes in the Victorian
times.
Write a report about Victorian prisons.
Design a quiz on Queen Victoria.
Research what Queen Victoria did every day. Write a
diary for her writing in the first person.
E.g. Dear diary, Today I…
Invent a Victorian machine.
Create a crossword or a word search using Victorian
words.
Research and create a dictionary or glossary of
Victorian words.
Photography was invented by the Victorians. Make
a montage of Victorian pictures.
Write a letter to Queen Victoria asking her what it is
like to be Queen.
Write your own poem (riddle, kenning or acrostic)
about the Victorians.
Make an outdoor game for Victorian children to
play. Write instructions for how to play.
Create a job advert for someone to work as a maid
in a rich household.
Research Victorian food. Create a menu for a
Victorian café.
Write a diary entry as if you were a Victorian child
who worked in a poor house. Write what you do
and how you feel.
Design or make an outfit for a rich or poor person
to wear in Victorian times.
Research Victorian transport. Use ICT or a
poster to show your information.
Research and compare life for rich and poor
Victorians. Present your information in an
interesting way.
Make a Victorian toy. (E.g. Peg doll)
Research a famous Victorian. Present your
information by creating a poster or using ICT.
Research and create Queen Victoria’s family
tree.
Research famous Victorian inventions.
Create a poster or use ICT to present your
information.
Cook a Victorian recipe and take a photo.
Write instructions for how to make it.
Create a PowerPoint about the Victorian times.
Use the internet or library books for researching.
Use clay to create a 3D Victorian artefact (E.g.
Something from Victorian houses)
Write a story set in the Victorian times.
Write 10 facts about Queen Victoria. Present
these in an interesting way.
Create 5 maths word problems based on the
Victorians.
Make an information text about the Victorians. You can
write about their daily lives, clothes, food, work and the
British monarchy.
If you were Queen Victoria, what laws would you
make and why?
Draw or paint a picture of a scene from Victorian
times.
E.g. a chimney sweep or a poor family eating
dinner.
Make a crown suitable for Queen Victoria.
Make a Victorian comic.
Create a timeline to show Victorian inventions or
important events from the Victoria times.
Write a newspaper report about the coronation of
Queen Victoria or about a famous invention.
Make a Victorian board game.
Useful websites:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians.html