Egypt Unit Study

Some kids learning styles are hands-on.  My daughter does better when she can see and touch it not just read words on the paper.  So I get a little creative when we do our school  We had a good time studying Egypt.  I used the Story of the World history curriculum.  It's geared towards younger Elementary, but I put unit studies with mine and made it a little more challenging.  We did lapbooks and projects with almost every lesson.  Our favorite was the mummified chicken.  Yes, I said MUMMIFIED CHICKEN (see other post for that project).  It was not as stinky as you would think or hard.  It is very time consuming because it takes 7 weeks to complete the process, but it is worth it.

Lapbooking:



 
Projects:

Ancient History Writing & Cartouche



Ancient Egyptian circlet/crown/diadem
We forgot to paint the cobra  :  ( OOOPS)  It still turned out pretty cute though.



Egyptian collar
You can make this out of poster board, cardboard or whatever you want.  I used the dollar tree foam sheets and just let her create her own design.  We punched holes in the corners to run string/yard through it so she could tie it around her neck.  



Egyptian hieroglyphics cave writing (stone tablet) 
Here we just used the salt dough recipe and added gritty sand like what you would have in a sandbox to make it have the texture and the color of the caves back then.  You can find the recipe here:  http://www.firstpalette.com/Craft_themes/People/hieroglyphic_stone/hieroglyphic_stone.html 


Egyptian amulet
This one was made out of a toilet paper roll, dollar tree modeling clay, rhinestones, and gold spray paint.  Our original plan was to make a whole outfit, but we never did get to doing the actual costume.



Egyptian Wig
Clearly this is a more than a one day job and I'm pretty sure we aren't doing ours like the picture, but we had a lot of laughs and my full of life girl enjoyed modeling it and acting silly.  To make this you cut several strips of black construction paper and wrap them around a pencil or dowel so they will curl up.  After you have curled them all use a piece of cardboard or poster board to wrap around your child's head and make a headband. Then you will glue, tape, or staple the strips to the head piece. 



Pharaoh sculpture
Although we joked this looked more like George Washington, she did a great job on it and spent some time on it.  She used a toothpick to carve out the details.  We just got the brown air dry, sculpting clay from our local Hobby Lobby.  If you google discount coupons for them online you can screen shot the coupon with the code on it and get it 40% off for a big box of clay.



We also did a project with toothpicks and marshmallows and she built it into a pyramid.  

Some of the art art projects were done to finish off the study.  Here is one that she cut up shapes to make a desert and the other one had several steps to complete the project.  (sorry about the red eyes in the picture)  The 2nd art we did was with newspaper and construction paper layered into an image.

 

When we were done with our Ancient Egypt study we took a field trip to a museum to visit the Egyptian exhibits and lucked up that they had a real mummy there.



After our trip to the museum we wanted to try Egyptian food.  This is as close as we could get in our area.  We tried mijadarah and tabbouleh.