The Home Front - Make Do and Mend!

• Visit the Home Front Experience in our Tank Story Hall.

• Talk to May, the Home Front Housewife, about `Making Do and Mending` - darn a sock and find out how simple children's Christmas presents were made.

• Have a vintage 1940's make-over with our Home Front Hairdresser.

• Listen to our own “Dads Army” relive life as a member of The Homeguard and as an ARP warden.

• Visit the Village Hall and meet the Blitz Buddies – and join them for a dance or two!

• There is also a chance to see the fashion of the 40’s on The Tank Museum Catwalk.

• On Sunday we will be joined by the Historic Knit for a demo on how to cook with the rations of the day and there is a chance to visit the Wessex Historic Household Toy Shop.

Christmas Activity Fun

• On Saturday morning at 10.30 see Father Christmas arrive by tank! Then visit him in his Home Front grotto for a treat (only for good boys and girls! - small charge applies).

• Bournemouth Concert Brass will be serenading visitors as they arrive with a mix of carols and Christmas songs.

• Join the Weymouth Choral society on Saturday afternoon for Carols around the Museum.

• See if you have what it takes to complete our fun-filled Wartime Christmas trail, with the chance to win a Tank Museum Goodie Bag!

• Make your own Wartime Christmas decorations and take them home with you.

• Children can build and paint their own tank and take it home with them at the end of the day (small charge applies)

• Headturners Face Painting will joining us for the weekend – for a glittery tattoo or a fairy face visit them in our Children’s Activity Area.

Christmas At the Front

• Christmas in the Trenches. Find out how soldiers of both sides in World War One would have celebrated Christmas.

• Christmas in the heat of the desert and in the cold of the Russian Front.

Christmas Shopping!