Egyptian Costumes

Learning about another country is fun especially when you get to make a costume!
Ancient Egyptians dressed differently then we do here in America and recognizing the difference for was part of our lesson.

The first piece of the costume was the headdress.

Materials

paper print outs of the top and sides of the headdress
markers
stapler
scissors

Color the headdress in common Egyptian color schemes.
Cut out the 3 different pieces
Staple them together
Put it on!

Egyptian necklace

Egyptians like things big and gold. So of course we had to make something to adorn ourselves with that was big and golden.

Materials

cardboard
tri color noodles
yellow paint
glitter paint
paint brush
glue
twine
pencil

I cut a frozen pizza piece of cardboard in half for the perfect semi circle shape.

Little Dragon and Toothless then mixed the yellow and glitter paint to make a wonderful gold color.

When the paint dried we glued on the tri color noodles as jewels.

Using the pencil I poked a hole in the two top corners of the semi circle then strung the twine through to make a necklace.

Full Egyptian costume completed!

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