Egypt Day at School

The annual Egypt Day was held on Friday where the children took part in various activities to learn more about Egyptians in their history curriculum. The kids also learned to write their names in hieroglyphics. Everyone had to come dressed in an ancient Egyptian style costume. Some kids where dressed as egyptian queens, pharaohs, King Tuts, King Ramses and mummies.

The ancient Eygptian style lunch banquet were food eaten during Egypt days, including meat stew with pita bread as the main meal, hummus, couscous, vegetables, figs and grapes.

It was an eventful day for Justin. He enjoyed his Egyptian feast and was happy to win the best dressed costume for his class. Some of his friends' costumes were more elaborate than his but the teachers probably saw the effort of making a costume instead of purchasing from a store. Thanks to Papa, we managed to get the costume done even with the baby arriving four days before. Papa had to finish up the headband, Egyptian collar and stitch the cloth with Justin.

Trying on his costume

The bracelets he was trying were made from used toilet rolls. The Egyptian patterns were found from the web and coloured in gold.

Justin in his costume

His prize for the best dressed costume was "The World Almanac for Kids 2011".

We had an fun time learning about Egypt together. A good resource is the Magic Tree House's research guide on "Mummies and Pyramids" which gave many interesting facts together with photos and illustrations.