Ancient Egyptians Topic Enrichment Pack

Fully immerse your class in learning all about this fascinating civilisation with this cross-curricular pack! This Ancient Egyptians KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack offers seven engaging lessons spanning Art, Computing, DT and PE, all carefully crafted to help your class develop key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Create a piece of papyrus art, make a clay cartouche and design their own Egyptian-inspired necklace
• Organise information about Egyptian gods and goddesses into a database
• Make a model shaduf and follow a recipe to make Egyptian bread
• Choreograph and perform an Egyptian-inspired dance routine.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Ancient Egyptians topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

You may also like our Ancient Egyptians Topic Bundle which has four fully-prepared schemes of work all themed around ancient Egypt! 

Papyrus Paintings

Papyrus revolutionised the way the ancient Egyptians recorded information about their lives. This Papyrus KS2 Art lesson gives your class the opportunity to make their own replica of a piece of papyrus art, studying examples from ancient Egypt for ideas and inspiration.

Your class will first learn what papyrus is and how it was made it ancient Egypt, before going on to explain how they can make their very own versions using some simple equipment.

This Papyrus Art KS2 lesson is ready-to-teach, and comes with an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Egyptian Cartouches

Get the clay ready for use with this enjoyable Cartouche KS2 Art lesson!

Your class will find out what a cartouche is and then follow some clear step-by-step instructions for how to make an Egyptian cartouche out of clay. Along the way, your class will have the chance to explore ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics as they translate their names to create their own Egyptian name plate.

This downloadable pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of informative PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

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Egyptian Necklaces

This Ancient Egyptian Jewellery KS2 Art lesson will turn your class into Egyptian royalty as they design and make their own ancient Egyptian necklaces using a simple but very effective method.

During the teaching input, the slideshow presentation explores some examples of ancient Egyptian jewellery before showing your class how to create the basic template for making an ancient Egyptian necklace of their own. After that, you can leave their creativity to blossom as they plan how to decorate their Egyptian necklaces.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides, activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable Ancient Egyptian Jewellery KS2 pack.

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Deity Databases

This Databases KS2 lesson challenges your class to organise a mess of information about Egyptian gods and goddesses!

Children are introduced to the use of databases to organise and store information on different topics. They will evaluate a database’s usefulness when trying to find specific information, rather than having to sort through disorganised facts. Children will then organise given information into database fields.

This Databases KS2 lesson is ready-to-teach, and comes with an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Making a Shaduf

Challenge your class to make a shaduf in this ancient Egyptian DT lesson for KS2!

Children will first explore what a shaduf was, and how they were used by the ancient Egyptians. They will then look at some examples of model shadufs before they are challenged to design and make a model shaduf using a range of materials. Once they have completed their model, your class evaluate their shaduf, considering what works well and what could be improved.

This Making a Shaduf KS2 lesson pack includes a plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Baking Egyptian Bread

This Egyptian Bread KS2 DT lesson for Year 3 and Year 4 begins by encouraging your children to think about what the ancient Egyptians ate.

As a class, they will look at a recipe for making Egyptian bread. The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input goes through some simple step-by-step instructions, complete with photos, to show children how to follow an ancient Egyptian bread recipe to make their own delicious flatbreads. They can even add their own twist to the recipe if they're feeling adventurous!

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides, activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable Egyptian Bread KS2 pack.

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Egyptian Dance

This Egyptian Dance KS2 PE lesson for Year 3 or Year 4 gives your class the chance to create their own Egyptian dances!

After looking at examples of pharaonic dance and body shapes in ancient Egyptian art, children will choreograph, practise and then perform their own Egyptian-inspired dance routines! Alternatively, they can create their own dances as though they are ancient Egyptians dancing to please one of the many gods and goddesses! Please note that this lesson plan does not provide a music track but does give suggestions for tracks available.

This Egyptian Dance KS2 lesson pack includes a plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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