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Welsh castle printables
Fact-checked PDFs in A4 and US Letter, for KS2 and KS3 classrooms, families and castle visitors.

Welsh Castles KS2 Topic Pack
Ages 7 to 11, schools and families
Label a concentric castle, Welsh prince or English king sorting cards, a castle timeline, a crossword where every answer is a real fact, a word search, a comic strip, colouring, a certificate and an answer key

Welsh Castles KS3 Source Study
Ages 11 to 14
Edward I’s conquest of Wales, what the royal building accounts can tell us, an evidence table, source-detective tasks on where the sources disagree, castles of the princes against castles of the king, and full answers with sources

Welsh Castles Family Activity Pack
Families, ages 5 and up
Colouring pages, a castle maze, spot-the-difference, design your own castle, Useless the Eraser’s castle jokes and a quiz to do together

Welsh Castles Spotter’s Field Guide
Adult history fans and castle visitors
How to tell a Welsh-built castle from an English one, D-shaped towers, concentric walls, 15 castles with dates and builders, and every place where the sources disagree

Welsh Castle Visit Journal
Castle visitors of all ages
Before-you-go checklist, what-to-spot tick lists for gatehouses, towers, walls and moats, sketch-the-castle pages, a castle log for up to 12 visits, and a visit stamps page

Welsh Castles Timeline & Poster Set
Classrooms and home
Six poster pages: a timeline from 1201 to 1986, walls within walls, how to spot a Welsh castle, the princes of Gwynedd, Edward I’s great four, and Welsh castles in numbers
