Picture This – Art Exploration for Kids: Tut, Tut: Mummies & Hieroglyphics: Celebrating Ancient Egyptian Art & Civilization

Picture This – Art Exploration for Kids:

Tut, Tut: Mummies & Hieroglyphics: Celebrating Ancient Egyptian Art & Civilization

Kindergarten through 5^th grade.

“Explore an ancient civilization and head back in time to pharaohs, mummies, hieroglyphics and more!”

· Open:  kids browse books about ancient Egyptian Art & Tutankhamen

· Show: Reading Rainbow: Mummies Made in Egypt – Aliki (the book through clay reconstruction of face segment)

· Read I am the Mummy Heb-Nefert (Picture Book Bunting) (in 2014), Ms. Frizzle's adventures : ancient Egypt (932 Cole) (in 2016 – would skip reading next time and just do the Reading Rainbow segment)

· Project areas (stations):

· Create Egyptian Mural (Supplies: bulletin board paper, markers, crayons and/or pastels, pictures of Egyptian Gods from Mummies Made in Egypt – Aliki plus assorted Egyptian Art books

· Cartouche—Hieroglyphic Name door hangers/bookmarks/gift tags: Fun with Hieroglyphs: 24 Rubber Stamps, Hieroglyph Guidebook, Ink Pad (Box Set) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)  -- interesting “L” & “R” map to the same symbol, as do several vowel sounds.

(Used to use photocopies hieroglyphic letters from Ancient Egyptian Art (J709.32 HOD) p.10 – very simple hieroglyphic alphabet, Cartouches SRC p.215-216 or Pyramids 50 Hands on Activities (J932 HAR) p. 60 – more elaborate alphabet for kids to cut out and paste on die-cut door hangers.)

· Create their own necklace/collar – cut out rim of paper plate, decorate with markers, sequins, etc.

· Color Mummy Masks (http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/ancient-egypt-colouring-pages)

· Make your own “mummy” – wrap a clothespin or  pipe cleaner “person” with paper towel strips & masking tape, decorate mummy wrappings. (can also make a sarcophagus out of a toilet paper tube and decorate that.)

· Additional Resources: Start with Art: People (J704.942 LAC) p. 8 painting on a clay surface
 
May 2007 (King Tut at Philadelphia Museum of Art) 
Sept 2014
Nov 2016 – pictures below depict: clothespin mummies (and decorated collar), name stamping bookmarks with hieroglyphs, mural-making, making a tomb for the mummy

Dig it Up – Outrageous Archaelology: Past/Present/Future

Discover how large and small things are in the universe, then travel through time to the year 4022 when archeologists excavate The Motel of the Mysteries. Help us imagine what someone from a different planet or a different time would decide the objects in your house might have been used for!”  Geared for grades 2-6.

Resources:

Internet Videos:  Powers of Ten – Charles & Ray Eames http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 & Cosmic Voyage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXf7AJZ73A

PowerPoint slide show based on Book: The Motel of the Mysteries by David Macauley (contact clevin@sclibnj.org for a copy)

• Display (Kids read as others entering): Books about King Tut, Ancient Egypt archeology
• Introduction: In 1976 (Bicentennial) Air & Space Museum opened in D.C. – included was the film Powers of Ten.  About the same time, a big King Tut exhibit opened across the mall in another Smithsonian museum.  Today, we are going on a similar journey through space and time, different ways of looking at things.
• Show video: Powers of Ten (and the relative size of things in the universe) – Charles & Ray Eames http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
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• Question: What is archaelogy?  Familiar with Tutankhamen?
• Introduce book:  Author/Illus David Macauley asked “What if someone excavated something from our time?  How would they interpret their discoveries?”  The result was The Motel of the Mysteries.
• Show PowerPoint slide show based on Book: The Motel of the Mysteries by David Macauley including items: “Internal component Enclosure”(Ice Bucket), “The Sacred Collar” (Toilet Seat), “Musical Instruments”(Shower Heads and Toilet Plungers), “The Great Altar”(TV Set) , “The Sacred Urn” (Toilet) 
•  …now their turn!  Kids (in teams if they wish) write a description of an object in their house as if someone from another time/planet has found it and is guessing what it would be used for. 
• Guessing Game: As each description is read aloud, the others try to figure out what the object actually is.
• Finished with Cosmic Voyage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXf7AJZ73A (more recent IMAX version of Powers of Ten)

"Awesome!" -- comment by several kids at the end of this program.

8/2013