The Home Front

With so many people off fighting a war around the world, how did life at home change? Find out about the essential war work done at home, much of it by a new work force of women. Paint some propaganda posters urging people at home to help with the war effort.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To explore the different sources showing what life was like on the Home Front.
• To paint their own versions of First World War posters.

Children will:

• Explore sources about life on the Home Front.
• Improvise some scenarios on the Home Front to explore what life was like.
• Analyse First World War posters.
• Paint their own version of a First World War poster on a specific topic.

• Presentation about Life on the Home Front
• Presentation showing posters designed to influence people
• Presentation showing German First World War posters
• Enrichment resources

• Paper
• Poster paints
• Paintbrushes.

Great Wharton - a site created by the National Archives from nationalarchives.gov.uk
10 ways children helped during the First World War from iwm.org.uk
Women in munitions factories from iwm.org.uk
Jobs women did in the First World War from ibtimes.co.uk