Summer Session..Walk Like an Egyptian!

We have had a VERY spotty summer session with church camp and errands to do, but we have finally made it through Ancient Egypt and we will begin Ancient Greece just in time for the Olympics!

The kids really enjoyed doing all of the hands on activities that I choose to go along with this lapbook. We used the In The Hands of A Child Project Pack Ancient Egypt, several books from our local library and a few I picked up at the book store and book thrift shop.

Here is the book list we used to go with this great lapbook project pack:

Book List for Ancient Egyptian Study

The Crafts and Culture of The Ancient Egyptians by Joann Jovinelly and Jason Netelkos

Pyramids! 50 Hands-On Activities to Experience Ancient Egypt by Avery Hart and Paul Mantell

Peoples of the Past The Ancient Egyptians Life in the Nile Valley by Viviane Koenig and Veronique Ageorges

Visiting the Past Valley of the Kings by Rob Alcraft

Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures Ancient Egypt by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

Pyramid by David Macaulay

First Facts About Ancient Egypt by Jacqueline Morley

My books:

DK Eyewitness Books Ancient Egypt by George Hart

INSiders Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley

Egyptology Search for the Tomb of Osiris by Dugald A Steer

Cleopatra of Egypt by Leonora Hornblow World Landmark Books

We made lego pyramids.

Belle's had to be white just like the real pyramids and Josh's was mulit-colored, but had a sarcophagus inside it! =)

Royal nemes to do battle in!

Upper Egypt battles Lower Egypt

Making wadjet bracelets.

They pretended the colored string were precious stones!

Making canopic jars for mummification

We used seedling pots cut down to the shape need and then modge podged brown paper sack strips to make the jars.

Painting their canopic jars. The kids used air-dry white clay to form the heads and then acrylic paints.

Found the idea on Pinterest! We used flour sack towels cut up for the mummy linen.

And finally mummifying Ken and Barbie! =)

I wanted to make a mini Egypt so we could demonstrate the flooding properties of the Nile, but I was REALLY afraid the cats would think they had a new place to potty, so we didn't make the mini-Nile. The kids were sorely disappointed!

There were so many fun and educational hands-on activities that I found at our local library, we could have studied Egypt and crafted til our hearts were content! But Ancient Greece calls, and there are just as many crafts and activities in store for Greece!