Make Your Own Mummy!
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- Take the plaster of paris bandages and cut them into strips.
- Make them a size you can handle easily.
- Plan how you want to wrap a mummy.
- You might want to start at the feet.
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- Dampen the strips in water and carefully wrap your mummy. Do this part fairly fast because the plaster can set quickly. Smooth the plaster with your fingers.
- Make sure you wipe your hands with a disposable cloth before you wash them.
- Do not throw unused material down the sink.
- If this stuff gets in your drains you'll make your plumber very wealthy.
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- When painting your mummy you might find it helpful to look at some mummy pictures from books or magazines.
- This picture (103K) might help as well.
- Here we painted the headress gold first, let it dry, and applied the black paint afterwards for detail.
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- This is our finished mummy. It looks a lot like a shawabti figure, a magical statuette that Egyptians had buried with them. They believed that the shawabti would act as a servant for them in the afterlife.
- Shawabtis usually had the deceased 's name written on them in hieroglyphics. Find out how to spell your name in hierogyphics.
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