This week we are visiting Egypt!
Here is our ‘This week we are visiting Egypt’ sign. We stick ours up in the kitchen/dining room (where we do most of our playing!) so that the boys can keep looking at it and...
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Egyptian flags!
We made some flags as part of our ‘Egypt week’. We made one flag out of card, craft sticks, glue and paint. I made one first, and then drew out the design for my...
Egyptian sweet cookies
I was excited about doing some baking for our ‘Egypt week’ as I really had no concept of what Egyptian food was like. I was looking for a recipe that was easy to make...
My son the Egyptian mummy!
We couldn’t ‘go to’ Egypt without talking about mummies – the wrapped up versions! We read about them in ‘Bella and Harry, Let’s visit Cairo’ – see my post on books for Egypt week....
Ancient Egypt sensory bin
It’s so much fun to create things for the kids to explore. And even better when it isn’t too messy and is quick to put together! I created a sensory bin for our ‘Egypt...
King Tutankhamun collar and headdress
We read about King Tutankhamun as part of ‘Egypt week’ – see my post on books for Egypt week – and my 4yo loved the idea of a young king who wasn’t much older...
Egyptian pyramids
Both the boys love to build things, and we are always on the lookout for new building materials. Egypt, with its pyramids, provided a great excuse to find as many different ways of constructing...
Books for Egypt week
My boys both loved the Bella and Harry ‘Let’s visit Cairo’ book – see my post on the Bella and Harry adventure series. We go back to this one quite a lot, particularly because...
Fuse beads for Egypt week!
We loved this Ankh fuse bead design from the Activity Village! I made one first – the orange one – and then my pre-schooler copied what I did in green. He needed a little...
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