Art for Kids - Week 2 - Egypt

I decided to post lesson plans at the start of the week, so

We will start by looking through the Egyptian section in The History Art. My goal is to point out three things about Egyptian art

1. Hieroglyphs
2. The way the Egyptians did not forshorten and instead painted everything from a side angle
3. And the Egyptian eyes painted with kohl

Start by painting their eyes to look Egyptian. Don't forget to take pictures to file in their notebooks

Activity 1
For Girls - Nefertiti hats - I cut a 22 x 28 piece of poster board in half and let the girls each paint it however they wanted. When it dried I rolled it so the bottom fit their heads and the top was slightly wider to resemble Nefertitis hat. I used hot glue to hold it together and then wrapped a ribbon around the middle and used a gold paint pen to draw the design down the middle. Or you could use a hot glue gun to glue gold ribbon in place.

For Boys - Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt - Cut the bottom, handle, and top off a clorox jug. Use an old fashioned shaped 1 quart plastic milk (The ones shaped like bowling pins) container for the center part. Fasten to the back of the milk jug with hot glue. Use a strip of red paper that is curled at the end for the front part.

Make sure the outer crown is red and the inner part is white





Activity 2:
Look through several hieroglyph books and then give them this page:
They fill in the lines with hieroglyphs and can color the pictures

Activity 3: Egyptian Cartouche
Use clay in a tan\sand color and form them into oblong shapes with a bit of a lip around the outer edge. Using toothpicks, have them carve their names or just their initials into the clay. Poke a hole in the top before baking so you can attach them to a piece of twine for a necklace.

Similar to this,





Activity 4:
This is quite similar to activity 1, using poster board cut out a large circle with a neck sized hole in the middle. Have them color it to look like a collar necklace and use string or ribbon to tie it in place. Googling "Egyptian Collar Necklace" will bring up several designs for ideas




While looking for ideas I ran across these fun web sites

This on takes you through two craftmans shops based on Egyptians drawings
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/trade/explore/main.html

This one provides more in depth information on the different crafts of the time
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/art/egyptart.htm

Write your own name in hieroglyphs
http://www.kidzone.ws/cultures/egypt/hieroglyph.htm

Next week we will be studying Greece.