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We were supposed to do Outer Space, but Optimus Prime begged, begged, begged, and BEGGED to do Ancient Egypt instead. We have (well, had now) a neat kit to make your own pyramids and he's been itching to do it for months. So, I took pity on him and we did Ancient Egypt.
The kit (pictured above, titled "Amazing Pyramids Art & History Kit" said aged 10 & up, but honestly so long as you are willing to mix the plaster there is no reason for it to be that age range) my mom got for me and my husband YEARS ago, long before our boys were born, on clearance at some store and for some reason we never got around to doing it. It lived in two previous states with us, collecting dust, so I was more than happy to bust it out and make some pyramids. That solved the project part of our unit, and for worksheets I went to education.com (would I go anywhere else?) and printed some up about the Ancient Egyptian gods, the pyramids, the lighthouses, the mummies, the Pharaohs... I think you see where this is going. I was left worrying about the book, but luck was with me, there was a book inside of the kit that had the instructions in it as well as some short stories (seven, to be exact) about how they believed the pyramids were built told from the point of views of the Pharaohs, the chief builders, the priests, and the princes. So we had a story book in the end.
There was a neat set up with a map and a bunch of plastic pyramids to set up on the map to see where everything was and what size things were in relation to each other. The plaster was for three of the pyramids, but there was so much extra that we made quite a few more with the plastic pyramids for the map. After everything dried we painted the plaster pyramids and the plastic ones and set them all up on the map.
Scooby-Doo even got in on this project and happily helped paint some of the pyramids.
It was definitely a very fun project.
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