My girls are all about the art projects these days, so of course, we had to do something to go along with our study of Ancient Egypt. I found the idea for this project on the Crayola website and modified it for the supplies we had on hand.
1. Draw a horizon line and paint the background. I put out three colors of tempera for the sand (orange, yellow, brown) and three colors for the sunset (blue, red, purple). I encouraged the girls to load their brushes with more than one color at a time. We also used an old toothbrush to create some texture for the sand.
2. Cut pyramids, palm trees, or whatever you like from cardboard. Paint with watercolors for nice, muted sunset-y color.
3. When your background and cardboard pieces are dry, do some gluing. Add a couple camels cut from black paper, too, if you like!
4. Enjoy your Egyptian masterpieces!
My four years old daughter did it according to your direction, and send it to her grandma. THanks for giving us the wonderful experience. love your blog very much! hope to see more wonderful ideas soon!
Hi – we did this as part of our ancient Egypt unit, following your directions exactly, and it turned out great – thank you so much! I’m not artistically experienced so I never would have thought of using different kinds of paints in the same picture – I love learning new things!