Pyramids! Hieroglyphics! Mummies! Oh my!!

The web is literally FULL of ideas to do your own FUN and EDUCATIONAL Egypt study!! I’ve pulled together this post for you with the most FAVORITE ideas we used in our home…of course we found most of them with the help of Pinterest! These ideas have been the PERFECT go-alongs for our ancient history learning we are doing this year with Winter Promise! Really the whole 2nd month of our history schedule goes along well with these ideas!

 

 

Our Favorite Hands-On Ideas for Egypt

1. Hot Dog Mummies ~ I first saw the idea here and we had these as a fun introduction dinner to our Egypt study!
2. Cuneiform writing on clay – and/or hieroglyphics – this idea was found several places in various guides we were using for history. My kids really got into the hieroglyphics and symbols!!
3. Mummifying apple slices – I saw this idea on my friend Ami’s blog to do as a science experiment. You save an apple 3 ways and then observe the differences. This was really interesting. And gross. And the kids loved it. 🙂
4. Life Size Sarcophagus  – this awesome idea is from Educating Laytons
5. Papyrus boats – this idea came from this book {Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself } that has AMAZING Egypt projects in it!
6. Nile River model – this idea is in the SOTW Activity Guide and then I saw these awesome pictures on this blog, seeing her pics made me want to do this project!
7. Mummifying a chicken – well this idea is all over the place, we used the directions from the SOTW activity guide. We tried it. Yes, we gave it our best shot. But after about a week momma couldn’t take it anymore. 🙁 So, it got thrown out. HA!
8. Lego ziggurats and pyramids – of course you HAVE to have your children build out of legos while you are studying history! Nearly every period has something you could try!! And we discussed the differences between ziggurats and pyramids and had the kids build BOTH.
9. Edible Nile River map – this idea is on tap for this week at our house! Doesn’t it look amazing? I found this idea on this blog.
10. Mummifying a hot dog – so this idea (along with the apple) were more my speed. No nasty chicken juice seeping out of the bag each day. 🙂 The hot dog was actually the LEAST gross of all of them…probably because of all the preservatives already in them. ha! I followed the directions found on this blog.

More Helpful Links

• FREE Ancient Egypt Lapbook & Unit Study
• Pinterest board FULL of Ancient history ideas
• an AMAZING Egyptian birthday party – Hannah is getting her ideas for her halloween costume from this party page!! She has already bought her gold spray paint.
• Your name in hieroglyphics

 

Our Favorite Books on Egypt

• Story of the World Activity Guide, Volume 1– even if you don’t wish to read the SOTW history book for whatever reason, there are some great coloring pages, hands-on activities and such in this book!
• Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself  – if I were going to choose ONE book of projects for an Egypt study, it would be this one!! We also enjoyed reading the various pages from this book assigned to us in our Winter Promise guide.
• Ancient Egyptian Fashions (Dover Fashion Coloring Book)
• Pharaohs and Foot Soldiers: One Hundred Ancient Egyptian Jobs You Might Have Desired or Dreaded (Jobs in History)
• The Golden Goblet
• Mummies in the Morning  (I used this for Caleb’s reading practice. He read a chapter to me daily through this study.)
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pyramid Builder!

 

Movies We Enjoyed

•  The Prince Of Egypt
• Egypt’s Golden Empire (this is recommended in the Winter Promise Ancients guide, because we have Amazon Prime, we were able to find the Egypt portionof this for free)
• Mysteries of Egypt

 

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