Motte & Bailey Castles Family Activity Pack

A motte-and-bailey castles activity pack for families, ages 5 and up: five colouring pages drawn by us, each with one true fact, a castle maze, spot the difference, a design-your-own-castle page, Useless the Eraser’s castle 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 motte-and-bailey castle, a timber tower, building a motte, from timber to stone, and a castle from above

- Castle maze

- Spot the difference

- Design your own motte-and-bailey castle

- Useless the Eraser’s castle jokes (16, 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 English Heritage, Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland, The National Archives, the Bayeux Museum and Encyclopaedia Britannica (checked 30 Oct 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 or copies of real objects, buildings or maps, not to scale, and not copied from any plan, print, photo or book, or from the Bayeux Tapestry. Not affiliated with English Heritage, Historic England, Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland, The National Archives, the Bayeux Museum, Encyclopaedia Britannica or the Department for Education. Their names are used only to identify the 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 motte-and-bailey.forts.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

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