For our Chapter on Egypt in the SOTW, we wanted to make mummies. Making a chicken mummy is out of the question for us as I am a vegetarian! So we settled for the next best thing by mummifying one of the little dolls that we seem to have a million of. I let D decide which one she wanted to mummify and we started the process.
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| The doll she decided upon, undressed ready for action! |
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| Here is the setup that waiting for the kids that afternoon. The linen strips are from an old towel. The small plate has some wet linen to clean the body. |
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| They took turns preparing the body. |
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| Then we started wrapping the body, by then M had lost interest and wandered off! |
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| Here is the finished mummy. I had to help tie a knot to secure the linen. |
That's funny - we're vegan and vegetarian here, too, so we have to come up with creative ways of doing things, too. :) My kids were asking me all about mummification the other day, and we had to look up pictures of mummified cats, etc. They'd probably love this.
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