Exploring Egypt
We have just finished up an amazing Egypt unit study. We have read wonderful books and really got into what it was like so long ago. Take a journey with us to see how we enjoyed tons of Ā hands on learning activities to explore Egypt. You will learn how to Ā read, write, and become Egyptian.
Ā Affiliate links can be found on this blog at no cost to you. Please read my full disclosure for more information.
Egypt Unit Study
Ā I decided a sensory play area would be perfect. I traced letters on a piece of paper to spell out Egypt. So while they were digging for Egyptian treasure, they would find letters along the way.
I used theĀ Egypt Safari Toob,Ā Assorted Gems,Ā Alphabet Magnet Letters, andĀ Famous Landmark Cards. Put everything in a bin with sand and it was ready to be played with.
A few of our favorite books wereĀ Mummies in the Morning andĀ Mummies and Pyramids Fact Tracker
We also enjoyedĀ The Usborne book of World History. It is one of the amazing books we received with ourĀ SonlightĀ curriculum.
Ā Bells loves her books and joins us for most of our schooling.
The boys loved exploring our life sizeĀ Pop up Mummy BookĀ a must for every house studying Egypt.Ā This book offers tons of information on what is put inside the tomb, how they are wrapped, and much more.
They also wanted to see how each one of them measured up to the mummy.
Even the baby had a turn š
After this we decided to Mummify an apple, unfortunately I haven’t been able to locate my pictures from this activity, but I will explain how we did it. The directions can be found here.Ā Every day for about 2 weeks, the boys would draw in their science journals what they observed from the apples. We mummified 1 apple and let the other apple just sit in a bowl. We compared the differences after the time was up.
Next it was time for them to see what it would be like to be wrapped up like a mummy. If you are wondering why Blaze has his toes covered with bandaids, it’s because when the Egyptians were prepared for the tomb their toes were wrapped with gold. He decided to use bandaids to try it out. (Great imagination)
Blaze spent hours building this lego pyramid.
We also built pyramids out of sugar cubes and used ourĀ Egypt Safari Toob FiguresĀ as accents and small world play.
We also built pyramids out of sugar cubes, and used ourĀ Egypt Safari Toob FiguresĀ as accents and small world play.
It’s easy to add in Math using the sugar cubes. Have the little ones count how many cubes it takes to make the pyramid or how many for each level. For the older kids they can estimate how many, then count, then average how many on each level.
Exploring Egypt is even more exciting when you see how they wrote stories, used a picture for each letter of the alphabet and how much detail went into their work. This is called Hieroglphs, and we used a great book and stamp set from Metropolitan Museum of Art calledĀ Fun with Hieroglphs.
The boys ABC’s in Heiroglphs
Explored important facts andĀ played fun word games from Little Passports.
Ā The Pharoahs of Ancient EgyptĀ was another book with a lot of information and Pyramid by David MacaulayĀ is a must!!!Ā It shows everything you would want to know about how pyramids are actually built.
Wouldn’t your kids love to dig like archaeologists? With this greatĀ Mummy Excavation KitĀ they can. They also learn how it takes time to find valuable items and you have to be very careful not to break things, because everything old becomes a lot more fragile.
We used our Little Passports goodies for extra learning. We read our letter from Sam and Sophia, placed our luggage tag on our suitcase, and added our stamp to our passport. The boys absolutely love receiving their Little Passports goodies every month. The excavating set was also a part of our Little Passports kit this month. It’s great for me too, no planning š
I hope you get the chance to use some of these fun hands on activities with your kids.
Thanks for visiting.
Ā Are you following Natural Beach Living on Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter? It’s the best thing to do to get up to date activities, educational studies, parenting tips, homemade scentsational sensory play, learn about all of our favorite things, plus so much more. You can also get a weekly e-mail from me of all of our top posts plus some fabulous insider specials.
JoinĀ my wonderful Facebook group