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West Midlands

Dudley Castle

Visited April 2017

Location	Dudley, West Midlands
Entrance Fee	Yes
Railway Station Nearby	Dudley Port, approx. 2 miles
Parking	Yes
Facilities	Toilets, Cafe, Gift Shop, Zoo
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This is actually a great day out for families as it combines a visit to the castle with a visit to the zoo which has been established in the land surrounding it. Part of the moat has been used to create the sea lion enclosure, and parts of the Tudor domestic buildings now house a Creepy Crawly exhibition with nocturnal animals, spiders and reptiles.

Category: West Midlands

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Build A Castle

You need 2 bowls and some newspaper. Grease the bowls with olive oil.
One bowl should be deep, this is the motte. Glue the scraps of newspaper onto the bowls.
You need a thick covering of newspaper- the final layer should be white paper.
Once the bowls have dried, paint them in green, with a blue 'moat' around the bailey.Then remove the bowls.
Use strips of corrugated paper to make the pallisade.
Create some buildings out of cardboard- we used lentils to make a roof.
Use corrugated card to make the keep, and use moss to make some bushes in the bailey.
A couple of cardboard drawbridges, and you're done! History homework sorted!

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Thanks to Braincode for the great template