After an introduction to Egyptian art and culture through movies, books, and internet images, my 5th and 6th grade students made Hieroglyphic cartouche pendants. Using their names and “Shrinky Dinks,” they were able to create colorful and detailed pendants.
They also completed life-size self-portrait mummy cases (newspaper-stuffed sculptures) which they painted and decorated with Egyptian symbols and hieroglyphics, and “wrapped up” this unit by creating mummy masks using plaster gauze-cast images of their faces and “headdresses.”
Please click on the links above to view the step-by-step lesson plans for these projects.