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This is a diorama of Ancient Egypt that I made for a school project in the late 1960s when I was doing a report on Egypt. The desert and largest pyramid are sandpaper, the sphinx is newspaper covered with clay, and the palm trees and two reclining camels are origami models learned from a Samuel Randlett book. The background scenery is tempera paint. The bedouins and camels are made from light card stock and colored pencil. This charming little diorama has all the appeal of naive art…

After a successful trip to the British Museum last Sunday with some of the Art Cabin members & their families, the children were very excited about making the Mummies. Simple sculptures of the …

Students will have many opportunities to learn about ancient Egyptian culture throughout their time in school. A day will come sometime in middle school when they have the assignment to re-create an ancient Egyptian structure. Middle school is the convergence of math and history that makes a project like this valuable.

Model of the great pyramids at the Giza Necropolis, supporting the study of the earliest civilizations in the English National Curriculum

Do you have an assignment to make a model of an Egyptian pyramid? It's a fun school project that can be approached in a variety of ways. Though there are lots of methods out there, you can easily make a realistic-looking pyramid out of...