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13 06, 2017

Ancient Egypt art project: drawing self-portraits

By |2018-04-19T12:13:57-07:00June 13th, 2017|Africa, Art, Crafts, Egypt|Comments Off on Ancient Egypt art project: drawing self-portraits

Ancient Egypt art project: What would you look like in Egyptian art? Egyptian sculptors wanted to show what people were really like inside, not just what they looked like on [...]

13 06, 2017

How to build a pyramid – Ancient Egypt

By |2018-04-19T12:10:03-07:00June 13th, 2017|Africa, Architecture, Crafts, Egypt|Comments Off on How to build a pyramid – Ancient Egypt

Pyramid project: building a sand pyramid A pyramid project Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, like Mayan lords, built pyramids because they're a pretty easy shape to build. Pyramids are especially easy to [...]

11 06, 2017

A day in Mesopotamia – food, costumes, activities

By |2018-04-07T17:04:22-07:00June 11th, 2017|Crafts, West Asia|Comments Off on A day in Mesopotamia – food, costumes, activities

Molded bricks form an archer at ancient Susa, in Iran If you're a teacher, parent, or day camp counselor thinking of spending a week or so on ancient West Asia [...]

11 06, 2017

Mesopotamian plate project – West Asia

By |2020-04-16T12:08:42-07:00June 11th, 2017|Art, Crafts, West Asia|Comments Off on Mesopotamian plate project – West Asia

Mesopotamian plate, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Mesopotamia is where the pottery wheel was invented West Asia was not the first place on earth where people began [...]

11 06, 2017

Make a cuneiform tablet – Mesopotamia project

By |2018-04-07T17:04:22-07:00June 11th, 2017|Crafts, West Asia|Comments Off on Make a cuneiform tablet – Mesopotamia project

Cuneiform tablet, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon About 3500 BC, people in West Asia began to use writing. Because nobody had invented paper yet, these people wrote [...]

11 06, 2017

Making molded bricks – Mesopotamia project

By |2020-05-05T06:21:03-07:00June 11th, 2017|Art, Crafts, West Asia|Comments Off on Making molded bricks – Mesopotamia project

Molded bricks project: A bull from the Ishtar Gate, Babylon (600s BC) Why molded bricks? Architects in ancient Mesopotamia (West Asia) didn't have much good stone to carve, but they [...]

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