How do you make a model of an ancient Egyptian house?

Answer 1

Making an ancient Egyptian diorama can be a lot of fun and all you need is a little bit of creativity. Here are some suggestions I have to making this kind of diorama.

The first, and most important thing, is the sand. You will need a few handfuls of clean sand to make this diorama. I recommend you don't use beach sand because it has a lot of impurities. You can purchase clean sand from hobby shops or home improvement stores.

Step1: Find yourself a solid base for your diorama. A piece of wood approximately 1 foot long and six inches wide would be appropriate. Now cover the board with a thin coat of elmers or white glue then quickly sprinkle the sand on it. You have to get the sand on the glue before it hardens so work fast. This makes your Egyptian style sand base.

Step 2: Cut four triangles of cardboard - cereal box cardboard works well for this. Then tape the four pieces together so they form a pyramid. Cut and recut the four triangles until they give a pleasing pyramid shape.

Step3: Now add sand to your newly made pyramid by following the same process you did in step 1; cover the pyramid with glue and sprinkle sand onto it.

Now glue the pyramid down onto your wooden base and you have an Egyptian scene.

Step 5: add some extra things. Do you have any small plastic animals like camels or figures? Go through your collection of small toys. Do you have any palm trees? Add anything to your diorama that you think is appropriate.

Adding a backgroundAdding a background can really enhance your diorama. Draw an Egyptian scene with a bright sun, some pyramids or maybe a sphinx on it then attach it to the back of the diorama so it stands up like a back drop.

What I suggest is this:

Use some blue paint to draw the Nile in the middle of a piece of brown strawboard. Then, you can use spray glue to spray the other parts of the strawboard. Use some real black dirt(notice the black) and some real grass to decorate a half of the river. Use sand to decorate another half. You can make some houses out of cardboard to decorate the "dirty" side and you can also use pyramids to decorate the other side. Anyways, just use you imagination! Do what YOU think is right and I'm sure the diorama will turn out to be excellent.

PS. If your teacher is very picky, be sure to paint the pyramids, houses...etc.

Answer 2

Building an actual full size pyramid today would take many years and billions of dollars. The actual construction practices of the Egyptians are shrouded in mystery.

Answer 3

you just make dduuuhhh

Answer 4

Paper mache!