Escape to Ancient Egypt

The last week of camp we traveled to Egypt and of course we began our week in art by making Egypt's flag!



After reading some books about pyramids, we used Cuisenaire rods to build pyramids in the sand.

I also found a Egypt Toob at Hobby Lobby! I love those Toobs. This one had some really cool Egyptian figures that I added to the trays:



At art we build pyramids with blocks which was pretty tricky! They did a great job!





We also built pyramids out of chex cereal and then ate them, yum.



We learned that Egyptians wore collars as symbols of wealth and status. We made some collars out of paper plates and added bright colors and dots of gold to show we had an important status.



For our cultural snack, we tasted Naan bread and made an Egyptian snack. We found one that sounded yummy. Here's the recipe:

Salatit Zabadi

2 1/2 cups of Greek-style plain yogurt

1 smaller English cucumbers

salt

1 clove of minced garlic (you can omit this the first time if your kids do not like garlic- slowly add a little more each time you make it!

a handful of mint leaves, chopped

olive oil

 

Drain the yogurt of any liquid every time you use it, to make it as thick as possible. First slice the cucumbers into very thin slices, and then dice them.  Place them into a shallow bowl and sprinkle with salt. After an hour, you will see that the salt will have drawn out the liquid. Drain it, and combine the cucumbers, yogurt, garlic, mint, and finally the olive oil.



We tasted it with our Naan bread, and as usual all these children tried and liked it! It is amazing how they will try so many of these ethnic foods!



Next, we learned about mummies and there was only one thing for us to do! We made some of our campers into mummies!

As we went we discussed how the Egyptians mummified people and placed them in tombs. Pyramids are just tombs for very important people!



To give our campers some experience in mummy wrapping, we added gauze to the home center and they mummified the babies!



This was a very popular center!



Ms. Rachel checked some amazing Egyptian books out from the library for us!

There are so many interesting things about ancient Egypt.

To wrap up the week we offered Egyptian campers face painting similar to the make up the Egyptians used to wear.

We gave them fancy Egyptian make up!

LOVE it!



And here's a scarab beetle.

At the end of the week we said goodbye to Ms. Heather who had spent part of the summer with us. We really enjoyed having her and will miss her! Here she is with her friend Will, who is going to Kindergarten. Summer is over and everyone is moving on to new adventures.

All in all our travels this summer were exciting, adventurous, delicious and fun. We had a great time catching the traveling bug at the ECDC!