Ancient Egypt: Presentations

The culmination of our arm chair travels to Ancient Egypt occured among friends. The kids presented their individual research topic to others at our history group meeting.

Cailin, ever the cat lover, was quick to pick her topic.....Cats!! of course. She learned that the Egyptians loved their cats so much that when the animal died the people of the household shaved their eyebrows to show mourning. Mummification of the cat was common. They even had a god dedicated to the feline members of Egyptian society.

Cailin had fun mummifiying her beloved stuffed animal with rolls of toilet paper.


Delaney created this replica of a merchants/store keeper type home. The outer court was where animals and the 'goods' that the merchant wanted to sell to others were kept. Although dark, due to small windows, just inside the home was where guest were recieved and meals were eaten. In the back were the bedrooms and kitchen, however, many meals were prepared upstairs on the roof to help control fires from burning homes down.

For his birthday, Connor recieved a new book called 'The Red Pyramid' by Rick Rioridan

This book is about the egyptian gods, which turned out to be a great gift, because he chose his project to be on these mythical gods.

He shared a story about the birth of some of the gods and how vicious they can be to one another.

One child gave a presentation on games that the kids played. Apparently, they enjoyed rousing games of tug-of-war. Our crew went outside to try their hands at it too.

Although much debated by the boys, the girls won!! Way to go girls!

Presentation time isn't complete without food. One mom found a website with modern egyptians/turkish recipes. I found one with chicken and garbanzo beans served over rice. Surprisingly, most of the kids liked it, although according to some of them it would have been much better without the beans. :)