Jewellery, hair and makeup

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians Daily Life

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Objectives

History

Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations.
Characteristic features of past non-European societies.
Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘civilisation’ and ‘peasantry’.
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, similarity and difference.
Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between cultural and social history.

Art

Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including painting and sculpture.

Lesson Planning

Describe the jewellery and makeup that the Ancient Egyptians wore; create Ancient Egyptian jewellery for themselves and their fashion dolls.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand that Ancient Egyptians were proud of their appearance and that both Ancient Egyptian men and women wore makeup, wigs and jewellery.
To create some Ancient Egyptian jewellery for themselves and for the fashion dolls (used in Session 5).

Children will:

Explain that both men and women in Ancient Egypt wore jewellery, makeup and wigs.
Describe the jewellery and makeup that the Ancient Egyptians wore.
Identify chn in Ancient Egyptian art by their side locks of youth.
Create Ancient Egyptian jewellery for themselves and their fashion dolls.

Planning

Provided Resources

Jewellery images
Makeup images
How to make an Ancient Egyptian bead necklace
How to make an Egyptian headdress
How to make a gold pendant
How to make an Egyptian collar

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Thin card and/or felt
Shiny paper
Black paper
Thick card
Black wool
Drawing compasses
Needles
Beads
Seeds
Buttons
Sequins
Pasta
Quick drying clay
Ribbon or cord, thin wire or nylon fishing line
String
PVA glue

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.