Funny Ancient Egypt Daily Life Art Activity for Kids

Create an Ancient Egyptian Daily Life Artwork with a modern twist — and ditch the boring worksheets for good. 🏺🎨

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Today we’re creating an Ancient Egyptian “Daily Life” scene — but not in the usual copy-a-textbook way.

You’ll:

✔ Turn plain paper into ancient-style papyrus
✔ Draw a clean 2cm Egyptian border
✔ Create characters in classic side profile
✔ Design bold, flat, pattern-heavy figures
✔ Add symbolic colours (blue, red, gold & more)
✔ Write your own fun hieroglyphics
✔ Finish with clean, thin outlines for that authentic look

But this isn’t just an art lesson…

This activity is part of our CREATE Curriculum:

C – Curiosity
R – Remember
E – Experiment
A – Apply
T – Tell
E – Evaluate

Because memorising facts about Ancient Egypt?
Useless.

Using knowledge to create something real?
Unforgettable.

This lesson is part of our full 10-week project:
How to Be a Pharaoh

Instead of teaching Ancient Egypt in a boring, linear, worksheet-driven way…

We start with a PROBLEM to solve.
Students design, build, create and apply knowledge.
Real activities. Real outcomes. No dead worksheets.

📦 What You’ll Need:

A4 paper
Tea (for aging the paper!)
Ruler
Pencil
Watercolours (or colouring pencils / crayons / pastels)
Fine liner pen

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This video is designed for teachers and parents to use as a classroom learning resource.

⏱️ Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Tea Staining
0:41 Drawing
1:28 CREATE with Learning Made Fun
2:50 Painting
4:04 Outline
4:24 Send Us Your Work

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