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I am so tickled and excited about starting our Ancient Egypt Passport Project from Home School in the Woods that I can’t wait until the review to share all what we are doing.

We will be using this curriculum over the next month or so and you know I am so visual that I have to share a ton of pictures with you before I do a final review.  I know you like pictures too.

One of the reasons I was so giddy to get my hands on this was because of all the activities and projects.  We couldn’t wait to get started.

My initial thought on this is that it does require a good amount of time for set up.  I have never been afraid of a bit of hard work in the beginning for a nice payoff in the long run.

Too, once we made the passport and luggage (so stinkin’ fun) we can use it for all the other project passport studies.

One thing I want to be sure you know when you start using this is to read carefully all the notes provided.

They are worth the time reading so that you don’t make mistakes in printing. 

For example, I appreciated the very fine point of printing “actual size” and not shrinking the pages because the measurements will be off on all projects.

Just be sure you read all the details and take your time.

Hands-On History Ancient Egypt

So the first couple of lessons, which are called Stops (there are 25 Stops total), is where a lot of the prep work is done. We have done 3 STOPS and stopped so that we could catch up on some of the fun projects.

We started by making the fun passport first.

All the templates you need to make each printable is with this download. It is the total package. 

Tiny wanted to use a photo for his passport where he was wearing his Ecuadorean hat. He is proud of that native hat.

He actually thought this was cool to make because when we got our passports for coming here to Ecuador, he learned a lot about visas and passports.

Then next we worked on making the timeline called “Snapshots Moments in History”. This baby has 8 pages plus 4 pages of timeline figures and extra pages for decorating. 

You can choose to do the pages notebook style or accordion style.

Since we love lapbooks, we decided to go ahead and do the timeline accordion style.

It took a bit of time to cut each page and tape it, but now we have the timeline for the whole project and will be gluing our timeline figures as we go along at each Stop.

Homeschool History Based Activity Study

Then this luggage idea, complete with luggage tag is so creative.

Just a heads up, my luggage looks a bit different than what the instructions said.  You will be able to create yours like the model one shown in the download because you probably live near a Wal-mart.

Since everything is not easy to find here in Ecuador, I had to help Tiny create something just a bit different.

First, I couldn’t find a file folder with pockets and brads. I went to 7 stores and they just don’t have that here in Ecuador.

So we made our own pockets and instead of using the brads like the instructions said, we used a file fastener.

If you make it and you live near civilization, it won’t take you near as long as it did for us to make our luggage.

We loved making it though and Tiny even wanted to glue some luggage stickers that we found on the internet onto the outside. It came out so cute.

Inside we store the travel log pages, which Tiny will write on at the end of our journey.

We can store other items in the pockets too.

Then lastly we made our beginning scrap book called Scrapbook of Sights.

The instructions called for a clear outside pocket and a 3 ring binder.  Guess what?

They don’t have clear outside pocket binders here and there are only 2 ring binders used here in Ecuador like the picture shown above.  Again, your final product will look a bit different than mine does here.

This wasn’t such a big deal though because we just glued the cover page onto the outside and can use a 2 ring binder.

This binder is for storing the map we did about Upper and Lower Egypt and it will store our timeline as we add “snapshots” of our trip.

Too, we listened to our first audio as we headed down the Nile River.

I really like this part to this curriculum because out of all of my boys, Tiny is the strongest audio learner and he just curled up beside as we listened to this audio tour complete with sound effects. So much fun.

You see, there is no way I will be able to get this all in one blog post because there is way too many wonderful things to tell you about this project.

I will update you as we move along through a few more Stops and do more of the projects.

Do you have plans for an upcoming unit study on Ancient Egypt?

 

You’ll love the other parts to this unit study:

• Ancient Egypt Homeschool Unit Study – Hands-on and FUN!
• Ancient Egypt Unit Study Part 2

Hugs and love ya,