Art Around the World! Check out these cuties and their Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagi!

I teach an after school class at my art studio called Art Around the World.  Our first stop was Egypt.

These K-2s made their own Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus just like my fourth graders did last year!  They were so cute, I had to get a group shot.

Ancient Egyptian Ukulele Boxes Redux

Fourth grade recently finished up an Ancient Egyptian Art unit by designing a sarcophagus out of a ukulele box.

I had these beauties on my big bulletin board in the main hall, and they kept getting knocked off.  I relocated right outside the art room, up high!  I was able to hang more up, and I just wanted to show them off again, so I thought it was worth a re-post.

Fourth Grade Ukulele box sarcophagi!

My husband owns a music store that is Chicagoland's ukulele headquarters!  I couldn't help but be intrigued by the interesting shape of the ukulele boxes I kept seeing piled up in the alley.  Those could be art!

He started saving them for me and I started dragging them to school.  I had just enough for an entire grade level to do a ukulele box project... but what?  I put the question out to the Art Teacher's group on Facebook, but I wasn't too thrilled with the answers.  So, I went with my first instinct and turned them into Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagi.

We began with a slideshow I downloaded. from another website.  We learned about hieroglyphics and talked a bit about the history of Ancient Egypt.  We even took a virtual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Ancient Egypt section through Google Art Project.

Next, we looked at more photos of sarcophagi and completed my sarcophagus worksheet.  Students were excited about drawing hieroglyphics, but didn't want to copy the Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi examples.  I told them they didn't have to!  They could make their sarcophagus look anyway they wanted as long as they created balance, had pattern, and used hieroglyphics somewhere.  They had a great time making Minecraft, princess, and superhero themed sarcophagi.

We wrapped our ukulele boxes in gold paper and painted our sarcophagus on tag board.

An Axl Rose sarcophagus on the left, and a traditional King Tut on the right.

I used thumbtacks through the back to hang them in our hallway.

Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus worksheet

I have been finding a bunch of old brainstorming worksheets, vocab pages, and other resources deep in the belly of my file cabinets.  Some of these are so old, the original file no longer exists...or is on 3.5 inch floppy!

This Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus Worksheet was used to introduce a sculpture project and integrate with fourth graders study of Ancient Egypt.