Did You Know About our Salt Dough Mummy?

Did you know about our salt dough mummy?

Yesterday we made up a salt dough mummy. Using the salt dough recipe and a mummy mold, we baked up a mock mummy. After it hardened we used linen gauze strips dipped in flour paste to wrap around our mummy.


After it got good and dried my daughter used Sharpie marking pens to paint on the "mask".






The kids then decorated a sarcophagus to place it in, complete with charms and amulets.

Did You Know How Fun It Is to Play Mummy?

Did you know how fun it is to play mummy?

In studying mummies and mummification, we read about the process the body went through in preparation for burial. It is indeed a fascinating process. The kids really listened, and then really remembered as they "re-enacted" the process. They remembered the ritual procedures and then had a great time getting wrapped in "bandages" to be an actual mummy. The first day, we used up several rolls of toilet paper. When the little guys wanted to "play mummy" again today, instead of wasting more paper, I cut up a sheet so they could play anytime they want.