Free Learning Resources

Looking to enhance your child’s learning? We have developed a range of fun free key stage 1 and 2 learning resources to be used at home or in educational settings.

We hope you enjoy our free digital learning offer. If you want to help support the museum please visit us or considering buying from our online shop. All ticket and shop sales support our education and conservation work at the museum.

Crimean Heroes Activity Booklets

These booklets include information, wordsearches, puzzles and colouring sheets to learn about three important people who helped the soldiers during the Crimean War- Nurse Florence Nightingale, Chef Alexis Soyer and Doctress Mary Seacole.

Florence Nightingale

Nightingale Booklet

Alexis Soyer

Soyer Booklet

Mary Seacole

Seacole Booklet

Florence Nightingale

Explore some different elements of Florence Nightingale’s work and legacy with these downloadable worksheets.

Florence Nightingale and Wellbeing

Nightingale and Wellbeing

Florence Nightingale and Cleanliness

Nightingale and Cleanliness

Florence Nightingale and Maths

Nightingale and Maths

Craft Activities

Can’t make it to the museum? Have a go at some of our previous holiday activities from home.

Jimmy the Tortoise

Florence Nightingale wrote that ‘a small pet is often an excellent companion for the sick’ and the Soldiers at Scutari Hospital actually had their own pet, a tortoise called Jimmy. Use these instructions to make your own tortoise Companion.

Tortoise Craft Instructions

Athena the Owl

Here at the Florence Nightingale museum we have a stained glass window of Florence Nightingale. We think Florence would have preferred a window with her favourite pet decorating it though. Use these instructions to make your very own Athena the Owl stained glass.

Owl Craft Instructions