Egypt Day

Today was our official Egypt day and a great way to spend a rainy afternoon. The 7 kids participating were fantastic and even with the busyness of multiple activities with only 2 moms, they all handled themselves beautifully!

We started by trying our hand at making "papyrus".

As we did not have real reeds to work from, we made up our own flour paste to soak and press our "reeds" together. It was quite a messy situation but with a great final product. I think we will decorate ours with the hieroglyph symbol for papyrus.

Next the kids moved on to making mummies of their favorite stuffed animals, and transporting them with their worldly belongings into a duplo pyramid. (Unfortunately I was trying to contain the mess in the kitchen and forgot to grab pictures of this one :)

Next on the list was to map out Egypt and the surrounding area using play dough. The girls really enjoyed this one, and are excited to add some props... pyramids, nomads, farmers, the crowns of upper and Lower Egypt!

The kids also had a chance to search out their names to figure out whose was whose that had been prepared with these cool hieroglyph stamps... (forgot to ask where you found those A?)

And finally, we tried our hand at paper beads... I think this will be a fun thing to revisit when the girls are just a little bit older... they turn out quite cute, but are not the easiest to maneuver at this point.

The kids than took a break and listened to the next chapter of Story of the World on cd, and finished off the afternoon playing with lego, reading books on Egypt, showing off their skills in Tai Chi, Akido, gymnastics, etc, etc, and just enjoying eachothers company.

This might be our break from Egypt now for a little while... but we will return! For the moment, we will have lots of new pictures for the binder!