6th grade wax museum

Harrison's sixth grade class works on learning about the egyptians for a while. They pick a God/goddess/or famous person from that time period. They do a huge research project on that person. In the end they have to make a costume and write a short oral report to perform for the school wax museum. They whole school walks through the classes to see and learn about the Egyptians.

Harrison's teacher loves the project and really encourages it. As you can see from some of the other pictures...not all the teachers feel so passionately about the project.

I have to stop and note here the girls surrounding Harrison. That was a regular occurance at every break in the fun.

The kids had to stand perfectly still while they waited for someone to come push their button. When it was pushed they could move around while they did their oral report then as soon as they were done talking again they were frozen until someone else pushed the button for them.

They did this for over 2 hours with only a couple of breaks when no one was in their classroom. Theirs was definitely a hopping class room.

We spent hours braiding his hair. Harrison completely designed the costume thought it took some help from my friends to figure out how to make it work. I have some brilliant friends. I mean, an embrodery hoop and yogurt container were not ideas I would have come up with but made the costume perfect. Some of these solutions we were all grateful for as it was much lighter than a paper mache ball on his head.

Though many of my friends spent a lot of time braiding with me to complete his project (better than rope that he had designed costume with) Even Harrison and Rachel got pretty good at braiding.

Harrison really was pretty good at the complete design of the project. And he is pretty good at making most anything out of duct tape. As proved in this project. He did all the duct tape creations for the costume.

Here are some of the other costumes in his class that were my favorites.

I got to help wash all this gold acrylic paint off of Tut.

I really liked seeing all the different ways and things people used to make the different things.

Very few had anything store bought. They really worked on this to make it a costume.

Rachel loved coming in to see (and torture) Ra the God of sun, aka Harrison.

The boy covered in blue with even a blue shirt was a fun sight to see in the sea of neutral colors.

This god with the bird/type face is featured twice by two different kids. That is part of what I liked, seeing the difference in the kids.

This girl was so proud of herself (as she should be) as she sewed the dress all by herself. Her mom told me she wouldn't let anyone help her make it...it was her project.

These next three pitures are the three other Ra God's of Sun. Yep, seeing them made me pretty proud of how Harrison took to the project and really got excited about it and did it to a level that he knew he should.

Here are some final close up's of Ra the God of Sun. I really was proud of him and all the hard work he accomplished with it. Way to go Harrison!

And now, two more years before Rachel has to do it. I will enjoy the break!