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January 2013 in News Children found a rather unusual way of
telling the time at a workshop. The Museum of the History of
Science, in Broad Street, Oxford, held a day of Chinese Dragon
Fireclock building. The clocks, invented more than 1,000 years
ago, tell the time by burning specially calibrated incense
sticks. Alice Kelly and her five-year-old son Luis Garnaut,
pictured, coloured parts of the clock. She said: “I had a lovely
time at the workshop, we had lots of fun.” Meanwhile, animal
magic helped excite young minds for an event at Oxford’s
Ashmolean Museum when education trainee Carly Smith-Huggins,
pictured, ran a new workshop called Woof! Woof! last week for
under-fives. She used a canine glove puppet to show about 45
children around the museum. They then got to make their own
puppet and to transform themselves into their f