More projects!

We did these simple step pyramids today. I followed the directions in the Story of the World activity guide, so we started with a 5x5 flat and built up with lots of (watery) glue. The sugar cubes we have aren't exact cubes, so that made things a little more complicated for Becca. Sylvia had lots of Mommy help in building her pyramid - she was more interested in painting lots of glue and adding some outbuildings!







Below are some sand clay pyramids. I got the instructions from a book called The Crafts and Culture of the Ancient Egyptians. This was really just for my entertainment - I mixed up the clay and made the pyramids with a little help from DH, not the girls! They think the pyramids are pretty neat looking though.




These are our scarabs, instructions found in the same book as above. Becca and I made the molds and poured the plaster while Sylvia was at preschool, but Sylvia wanted to paint, so she added the gold "accent" to my scarab (on the left, Becca's on the right). You can also carve some hieroglyphics on the bottom of the scarabs, but we didn't do that part.


I am sad to report that our snails met a bad end.... When we ordered the kit, it came with water conditioner and we followed the directions perfectly, but the whole batch died within a day. We got a replacement shipment, and they died just as promptly. I found out from Carolina Supply that we probably had too high a copper content in our pipes, which caused the snails' demise. So unless you have brand new water pipes, if you want to raise pond snails, you might want to use some purified distilled water!

Hopefully our next science unit involving living things will work out better. At least Tommy and Rozy are still flippin'!