Thursday, October 25, 2007

Papier Mache Mummy Case

I mentioned several weeks ago that we were making a papier mache mummy case as a project for our Ancient Egyptian studies ~ but I never posted a picture. Jason was very proud of this one. It turned out great, and wasn't hard to do. We used a balloon and bunched up newspapers, secured with masking tape, to make the basic form of the body, then wrapped it all with strips of newspaper dipped into a flour & water paste. We did 2 layers, for strength. When it was dry, we drew the basic features with a black Sharpie, then painted with acrylic paints. We went back over some of the outlines with Sharpie again later. We used pictures in our Ancient Egyptian books for inspiration for design and colors, etc.








6 comments:

threelilmnms said...

ooooh, this looks fun. Thanks for sharing!
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GrammaJelly said...

What a fantastic project! Congratulations on a fine job, Jason! Love you! Gram & Grandpa.

keeperathome44 said...

those are wonderful. how fun. I'll have to remember that when we get to year 1.

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the idea! Brilliant! We made a some what larger version of the mummy and this helped a lot! Thank you.

Anonymous said...

wow their way cool ,, good idea for me now i can do my school projest on ancient egypt ,, thank you ! i need more of you good ideas

Anonymous said...

great you gave me such a great ider for my home work and i trid it and it wasant as easy as it looks but it was worth it thanks so much but now it is at my uncls giving him some company !!!!!!