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March 11, 2010
Totally Terrific Tutankhamun!!!!!!
During Egyptian week we have been learning all about the boy king Tutankhamun. We were fascinated and really enjoyed learning about the discovery of his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. We decided to design and make our very own Death mask. We think King Tut would love them - do you? Please leave a comment letting us know what you think.
First we drew around our mask onto a piece of card. We had to place it well so that we left enough room for the headdress. Then we drew the headdress shape on the paper and cut it out. This was extremely tricky!
Then Mrs Inkster helped us to spray paint the masks. PHEW! what a stink - good job it was outside, we even managed to spray some of the grass.
After we had cut out the headdress we chose foil and made a repeating pattern on the headdress. There were parts that were very tricky to do, like curving the strips of paper. Our teamwork was brilliant and we kept checking to see that our pattern was repeating. Then we trimmed round our mask so there was nohing hanging over the edge.
We chose a colour we had not used to be the centre piece of the mask. They look amazing. Everyone who has visited our class this week are amazed Year 1 produced such skilful masks. Please pop along and have a look - they are now on display in our Egyptian cloakroom.
Posted by A Inkster at March 11, 2010 10:24 AM
Comments
I really liked making my mask. We worked so hard on it and now its on the wall it looks super. I think we are very clever.
Posted by: Kaitlyn Bell at March 11, 2010 4:43 PM
My brother and sister really loved doing the theme.
Posted by: Toni A at March 12, 2010 5:19 PM
Your Masks were brilliant. Carol even commented they were better then the one she had made for the day. Well done kids!
Posted by: Shelley Punshon at March 15, 2010 2:08 PM