Iron Age Brochs Family Activity Pack

An Iron Age brochs activity pack for families, ages 5 and up: five colouring pages drawn by us, each with one true fact, a maze, spot the difference, a design-your-own-broch page, Useless the Eraser’s broch jokes and a 20-question family quiz, with answers.

What’s inside:

- Welcome page with Useless the eraser

- Five colouring pages, each with one true fact: a broch on an island, a wheelhouse, a roundhouse, three kinds of broch site and the way in

- Maze: climb the stair to the top

- Spot the difference

- Design your own broch

- Useless the Eraser’s broch jokes (14, each built on a true fact)

- A 20-question family quiz

- Answers

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 16 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from Historic Environment Scotland (checked 3 Nov 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are simplified impressions: not photographs, not reconstructions of any real broch, not to scale, and not copied from any site plan, map, guidebook, print, photo or book. Not affiliated with Historic Environment Scotland, UNESCO, the Shetland Amenity Trust, the RSPB, any government, the UK government or any museum. Their names, and the names of the places they look after, are used only to identify the places and sources we quote.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind brochs.forts.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.