Archaeology Dig
Rock Party
This party could be more than just an Egyptian dig...try other cultures also.
Invitations:
Mummy shaped
outside:
Come exploring with archaeologist 'child's name'
Inside:
Day:
Time:
Our Dig Site: 'location'
RSVP:
Decorations:
Neutral colors: sand colored, black,
brown, deep greens. Picks, shovels, sand bags (burlap bags) filled with crushed
newspaper or straw. Sand box or area set aside for the dig. Stake off with
rope.
Cake:
Mummy Shaped
Goodie Bags:
Small pails, fill with geode, arrow head,
magnifying glass, cool rocks and fossils.
Games and Activities:
Mummy Wrap: One roll of toilet paper per child. Form teams and let them wrap each other up.
Archaeological Dig:Need: Hand trowels, sand screen.
Using your sand pit, bury fossils, pieces of pottery, Indian arrow heads, other items from different cultures/ eras (put modern things in too). Let the kids carefully dig them up, and sort them into the culture they belong. (instead of using "real" items, you could make mini-replicas from Fimo or Sculpy clays)
Rock Search: Have a bag of rocks for each child hidden and give them a map to follow to the site of the hidden rocks. Make 'boxes' for the rocks with indexes for each separate rock.
Fossil Find: Bake fossils or tiny items into playdough. Hide them around or in the sand and let the kids find them. They will then need to crack them open.
Make a mummy: See this cool project athttp://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/mummy/mum1.html
Draw Hieroglyphics and write their name: This could be done on
their pails with a permanent marker. See this page for the translation
http://www.idsc.gov.eg/tourism/tor_trn.htm
Here is a great site for explaining what archaeology is and how a
dig is performed.
http://www.rom.on.ca/digs/munsell/
Check out this site for rocks and supplies:
GEOPRIME-ROCKS, MINERALS, & GEOINSTRUCTIONAL EARTH
SCIENCE TEACHING SUPPLIES
Please e-mail me with additional ideas
boardlr@coupeville.net
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