Mummies

Samuel had to do a project and write a paper on mummification in ancient Egypt for his PC class.  He wrapped his bear in some old t-shirt and found the heiroglyphs to spell "Mighty Bear" on the sarcophagus and then made some canopic jars for the internal organs (no real organs or even pretend).  He wrote a 5 paragraph essay about "why, how and who were mummified in ancient Egypt" - I think it turned out well (I did make him use and old fashion paper dictionary to correct his spelling mistakes and supervised the painting of the box with what's left of our wall paint but for the most part all his work).  The girls liked the linen strips - Lucy and Lydia played with the left over linen strips an pretended to be brides with a flowing train.