Egyptian Mummy

Last week the kids and I had the chance to practice our mummy wrapping skills, thanks to the idea found on Jamin's homeschool blog.

I purchased one barbie and two Ken dolls from the Thrift store in town. Dancer wanted to keep all of them but I had to explain to her that it wouldn't be possible. She was happy is settling just for the new doll clothes that they arrived in.

Since this was going to be a big project I broke it down into several days. Tuesday afternoon we prepared the body for the process of mummification. I discussed with the kids what would happen to the body before it was wrapped. We pretended to remove the organs from the dolls and Dancer needed to cut her Barbie's hair very short.

After the organs were removed and the hair was cut. We prepared the spices to preserve the body. The spices we mixed were Cinnamon, nutmeg, red wine vinegar and olive oil. The kids shook them up in a baby food jar and used paint brushes to preserve the body.

Once this was complete we put them aside until a few days later. The real mummification process took about 70 days from start to finish.








On Thursday we wrapped the dolls. To do this I used some muslin fabric scraps that I had on hand that the kids ripped up into strips and a mixture of water and flour. It was a ratio of 2:1. Two cups of water to one cup of flour.

The kids then dipped each strip in the paste, scrapped off some of the excess mixture and wrapped the dolls.


Once all the dolls were wrapped we left them to dry.


On Friday I had the kids construct and design their own tomb for their pharaoh. We used file folders that were folded and cut in a box shape.

I hope you can get inspired to try your hand at making a mummy with your kids sometime soon.

Blessings,
Amy

Egyptian Pyramids

If you are looking for the Christmas projects, I did post them. Please read below. I needed to post something again to hide the cover post from my little ones.

We are currently learning about Ancient Egypt in our history studies. It is simply amazing to myself and my kids historical and Biblical accounts of Ancient history. We are learning just so much. Today we had fun learning about the pyramids. After the kids read some books about the pyramids we added a write up for our lapbooks. I had them learn and find information about the three different types of pyramid that were built in Ancient Egypt. They are the step, smooth sided and the bent style pyramids. They added pictures of each kind and researched where in Egypt each one is found.

Next the kids got messy with sugar cubes and glue to create a step pyramid. I think they had more fun eating the cubes than building. It was quite tricky for my two younger ones. This is where Math concepts stepped in and Math patterns were formed. I will need to remember to look up some more pyramid Math problems on the internet for my oldest to solve. He enjoyed it immensely. Here are a few photos to share with you in our building process.

Hope you enjoy,

Amy