Put your gloves on, girls!
Sylvie adding salt to our "natron" mix
Becca adds the baking soda
The king in his temporary tomb (covered in the salt mixture)
Okay, we may never eat chicken again!
He's smelling a little funky now, but he's double bagged, so the smell is contained. We check on the salt and change it every day for about a week, then we'll just check it once a week for another 3 weeks or so. After that, we'll give him some royal oil and spices and wrap him up in cloth strips! Becca wants to give him a "whole nine yards" burial and kept asking me this morning, "Are we going to make him a burial mask?" "Are we going to make him three coffins that go inside each other?" "Can we make amulets too?" "We need to make a pyramid this high!"
Oh, I need more energy!
2 comments:
Oh, that's awesome!! We mummified a game hen last year and it was definitely one of the most memorable things we did in 1st grade. We had the whole "Can we build a pyramid in the backyard?" discussion too.
OMG that's so cool! I wish I had the patience to homeschool my kids. I like to teach OTHER people's kids LOL.
Susimar GF :)
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