Ancient Egyptian Challenge.

1st Roydon Senior Section.

The Ancient Egyptian challenge is for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, The Senior

Section and Trefoil members. 1st Roydon Senior Section have produced this badge in order to raise funds for

activities and help support unit events.

We thank you for your support and we hope you enjoy the challenge.

Rainbows should complete 4 different challenges

Brownies and guides should complete 5

challenges

The senior section and Trefoil members

should complete 6

Feel free to adapt any of the activities if needed.

Egyptian Jewellery The ancient Egyptians highly valued jewellery and it was worn by both men

and women of all social classes. Statues of kings and gods were covered with

lavish jewels, and the deceased were sent off into the afterlife ornamented in

the jewellery of the living. Earrings, bracelets, armbands, collar pieces, rings

and anklets were all commonly worn in ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egyptian Bracelets

Make an Egyptian bracelet or armband out of a toilet paper tube.

You will need:

• Toilet paper tube or similar (e.g. Pringles)

• Acrylic paint • Paint brush • White glue or tacky glue • Paper, yarn, beans, seeds, little

stones, gems.

1. Cut a toilet paper tube vertically. The slit will allow you the paper tube to

fit on the wrist or arm.

2. Trim the paper tube to the desired width.

3. For an easier and quicker bracelet, you may decide to colour in your

tube and stick some gems on top to make your jewellery look expensive.

4. If you want to make a more complex bracelet firstly

you will need to add raised features by gluing on

materials such as paper. You can roll paper into a long

strip to line the edges and paper balls can be glued on

as detailing. Other materials which work well string,

tissue paper, beans, seeds, or little stones. You can

even cut out shapes out of cardboard and glue them

on as well. When done, set the bracelet aside to dry.

5. When the glue has dried, prime the entire surface of the bracelet with

white acrylic paint

*Priming the bracelet with white acrylic paint is essential if you use a

printed or glossy surface as the base (e.g. Pringles canister).

6. Once the white acrylic paint dries, paint

the bracelet with gold acrylic or poster

paint.

7. You may want to add colour for any

special gems which you have added.

Pharaoh Headdress.

You will need: • A4 card • Crayons/pens • Scissors • Glue • Paint brush

1. Templates for Pharaoh headdresses can be found easily online. 2. Colour in or decorate with various craft items. 3. Cut out the template and set aside. 4. Cut out the extra strip of paper and glue one end onto the headdress

and bend round to create a band. Glue into place. 5. If extra length of band is needed cut out more strips to add.

Egyptian Necklaces.

You will need:

• Paper plates

• Pencils

• Paint

• Glitter glue

• Glue

• Anything you would like to decorate with (gems, glitter, tissue paper)

1. Using a bowl/plate draw a circle in the middle of the plate.

2. Cut into the paper plate to create an opening.

3. Using your pencil marks as a guide cut out the inner circle.

4. Then you can start to decorate them. You may want to paint the base

completely and then add decoration. Or you may want a wider mixture

of colour by use of pens and pencils.

5. Add glitter to make them shine and gems to make them look expensive!

Glitter glue works well here.

Egyptian Pottery

The Egyptians were one of the first cultures in the world to create pottery.

Having developed an excellent farming-based civilization Ancient Egyptians

made pottery for practicality reasons. They used them as a way to store grains,

food items, hold water as well as for cooking foods.

Egyptians took a lot of pride in their art and they used pottery to reflect their

creativity and imagination with extravagant designs.

Egyptian pottery, like many pottery types, was made with clay. Their location

close to the Nile river gave them the ability to have an abundance of clay and

because it’s incredibly hot in Egypt, they could set their finished pottery out in

the sun to bake.

Create your own pottery.

You could create a vase, plate or bowl! Older

groups could make their own using clay and

then decorate them later. Younger groups

may need ready-made pottery to paint, such

as ceramic or porcelain objects. Groups of

any age will enjoy taking a trip to a pottery

workshop where you can decorate your own

pottery and have them glazed.

The Pyramids The ancient Egyptians are famous for the building Pyramids. The pyramids

were built as the burial places of the Egyptian kings.

There are still over eighty pyramids in Egypt today. They are all more than

3000 years old.

The architects of these pyramids were very skilled in mathematics, in technical

drawing, and in knowledge of the position of the sun and stars. The pyramids

were carefully designed to be in a straight line with, for example, a certain star

constellation at a certain time of year, or sunrise on a particular day.

Realistic model pyramids

Instructions:

1. Print a pyramid template onto yellow card.

2. Cut out, fold and glue, following instructions.

3. Glue the bottoms of the pyramids together.

4. Glue everywhere and cover with sand!

Build a pyramid out of marshmallows.

You will need:

A plate (best if plastic)

Mini marshmallows (but rainbows may choose to use regular sized ones)

Icing.

Biscuit for the base

1. Start by placing one layer of marshmallows on a

biscuit. Place the marshmallows out as shown in

the photos.

2. Place each marshmallow in a gap when adding layers and reduce the

width at each level.

3. Hold in place with a dab of icing

4. Continue all the way to the top.

5. Some girls may find it easier to stack the

marshmallows without icing.

Ancient Egyptian Mummies

Ancient Egyptians believed that when a person died he or she passed into an

‘afterlife’ if he or she had been good. They thought that the individual would

have a life that was very close to the one that they had lived with everyone

else but in order to have that kind of life, their bodies needed to be preserved.

Ancient Egyptians mummified animals as well as people and archaeologists

have found entire burial chambers just devoted to the burial of mummified

cats! The process involved to create a mummy properly can take up to 70 days.

Mummy me!

Make each other mummies by wrapping up in toilet rolls. You could Play the

Egyptian Mummy Race Game:

1. Separate the girls into 2 teams and give each a roll of toilet paper.

2. The teams choose a player to be their "mummy."

3. At the signal, each team wraps its "mummy" (leaving room for

breathing & seeing, of course!), and whoever is finished first wins!

Or you could allow for a set time for wrapping up and gather each mummy

together for a presentation. Award points for neatest wrapping, best

coverage, scariest mummy groan, best mummy walk. Etc.

Create an Egyptian mummy

You will need:

Bandages

polystyrene ball

googly eyes

pipe cleaner

newspaper

1. Roll up 2/3 pieces of newspaper into one long strip.

2. Glue a polystyrene ball onto one end of the wrapped up

newspaper.

3. Wrap a bandage around your rolled up newspaper and

polystyrene ball until completely covered. Tuck the end in.

4. Thread your pipe cleaner through and bend the ends to create fingers.

5. Add two googly eyes.

Mini sausage mummies!

You will need:

Short crust pastry

mini sausages

egg for glazing

black icing

These sausage mummies take 20-30 mins to make and about 20 mins to cook.

1. Preheat oven 200C/400F/Fan 180C/Gas Mark 6.

2. Roll out your pastry and cut the pastry into strips with a sharp knife. You

need long thin strips of pastry about 1cm wide.

3. Start from the base of the sausage and wrap the pastry around the

sausage moving upwards.

4. Make sure the pastry is tight around the sausage so it doesn't

unravel. Leave a gap at the top of the sausage for the sausage

mummies 'face'. Brush with egg wash and put onto a baking

tray.

5. Cook in the oven 15-20 mins until the pastry is golden and crisp.

Once they've cooled draw on the faces using black writing icing.

Ancient Egyptian art. Egyptian art was developed as a form of service for the king. The art was first

created to show that the king was a god.

Ancient Egypt Salt Dough Cartouches

A cartouche was an oval with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the

hieroglyphs text enclosed is a royal name, a bit like a name plate. They were

found attached to coffins and also on the jewellery of pharaohs.

You will need:

• 1 quantity of salt dough

• Acrylic paint (gold, red, blue and black)

• Varnish (optional)

1. Roll out a piece of salt dough to about 1/2cm thick. Cut out an oval.

2. Roll out a long strip. Stick the strip around the edge of the oval, twisting

it slightly as you go so it looks like rope. Press the ends together.

3. Carefully transfer it to a baking sheet and bake at 160˚F (70˚C) for about

2 hours. Your plaque is now made.

4. You can then paint the background and rope when cool.

5. Paint on some hieroglyphs to spell your name and leave to dry. To finish

paint on a coat of varnish if you wish.

Hieroglyphic plaque

You will need:

• Air hardening clay

• Something to mark the clay with.

(eg. bamboo skewer)

• Rolling pin

1. Roll out the clay so that it is flat. It

should be about 1cm thick.

2. Round off the edges using your

hands so that it is not completely

neat – this gives it a rustic effect.

3. Experiment with adding hieroglyphic

markings using the skewer. The great thing

about this is that if you make a mistake you

can just roll up your clay and start again.

4. When you are happy with your markings

leave to dry.

5. You can add colour to your plaque by painting

them.

Hieroglyphic tea- light holders

Ancient Egyptians did not have electricity and instead had to invent their own

light to see after the sun had gone down. There is a single hieroglyphic which

represents light. You could decorate tea-lights with hieroglyphics using glass

pens. They look very pretty when done, but you will need a careful hand.

You will need:

Clear tea light glasses

Glass pens

Tea lights

Hieroglyphics to copy.

You could trace the hieroglyphics onto your glass by putting a piece of paper,

with a hieroglyphic, inside and then trace over with pens on the outside of the

glass.

Ancient Egyptian Discoveries. Not only do archaeologists get excited when they discover large tombs to

uncover but they also look at smaller objects which could give them vital clues

as to how people lived during the Ancient Egyptian times.

Archaeological Dig.

Hold your own archaeological dig. This can be carried out in many forms. You

could use a sand pit to create a large scale discovery or use smaller trays for

smaller individual digs.

Fill either a plastic tray, foil tray, shoebox or something similar, fill with sand or

dirt. Bury small pieces of jewellery, shells etc. Explain that archaeologists must

be delicate when excavating because of the items can be fragile. Using only

their hands and paint brushes girls can extract the hidden objects.

Archaeological find.

Hide sweets/treats (like chocolate in foil wrap) around your meeting place.

This could be inside or out. Get the girls to become explorers themselves and

hunt to find the hidden treasures!

Famous Ancient Egyptians. Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut was ambitious and declared herself as the pharaoh of Egypt,

stating that a god has said she was to be the pharaoh. After claiming the

throne as pharaoh, Hatshepsut began to depict herself as a man wearing

traditional king’s clothing, a crown and a fake beard. It was not a way of

tricking people into thinking she was a man, but it was her way of asserting her

authority as the female ruler. She ruled Egypt for twenty years and the nation

prospered under her reign. Unlike other leaders, she focused on improving the

economy and on building and restoring monuments instead of on fighting for

new land.

Tutankhamen

Tutankhamen was crowned at the very young age of nine or ten. He ruled for

approximately ten years and he died at the age of nineteen. After his death, he

vanished from Egypt’s history and no information on him was found until the

discovery of his tomb. He is famous for his intact tomb encompassing his

mummy, that was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt in 1922,

preserved for more than three thousand years.

Thutmose

Thutmose never lost a battle and was a hero in ancient Egypt. He was greatly

respected throughout Egypt. He was known for his bravery and intelligence in

battle, as well has for the many buildings he constructed.

Ramses

Ramses the Great’s reign lasted 67 years and he died at the age of ninety-two.

Ramses had many wives and more than 100 children. Ramses faced many

battles and was known for his great military strength. He built many

architectural structures, more than any other pharaoh in the history of Egypt

and a significant number of his building achievements can still be found in

Egypt today.

Cleopatra

Cleopatra had Greek origins and was a member of the Ptolemy family that had

ruled Egypt for 100 years. Cleopatra became queen of Egypt when she as only

eighteen years old. Cleopatra was intelligent, clever, ambitious and power

hungry. She was also known for her beauty and did not hesitate to use it to her

advantage. Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt.

Corners Game.

Name each of the corners of your meeting place with the name of a famous

ancient Egyptian. Have someone in charge to shout out the name of one of the

names corners. Everyone must then run to that corner of the room. The last

person there and anyone who runs to the wrong corner is out.

Fastest Pharaoh first.

This is a relay race with the aim of passing a balloon between all the team

members to get to the end of the line.

What you will need:

Print out / photos of Pharaohs

Balloons

What you need to do:

1. Split the group into teams.

2. Give each team a balloon with the picture of a famous pharaoh stuck

onto it, this is that team’s pharaoh/team name.

3. Have everyone form a line.

4. Players must pass their pharaoh from the person at the front of the line

to the last.

5. The balloon must be passed back following an alternate method: above

the first person’s head and then between the next person’s legs.

6. The first team to get their pharaoh to the end of their line wins.

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