Theme Crafts/02-05

  SCARAB STAMP SEAL


Materials Needed:
Modeling clay
Ballpoint pen
Rolling pin
Craft knife or popsicle stick sharpened at one end.
Ink Pad
Cookie Sheet


Instructions:
1. Model a beetle out of the clay, keeping the base as flat as possible.
2. Roll out some modeling clay, the same shape as your beetle, and carve a message on it using
the tip of a ballpoint pen. You can invent your own picture writings or use hieroglyphs. Make
sure that you carve each word backward so that it prints forward.
3. When you have finished carving, check that the slab of clay is perfectly flat, and join both
parts of the seal together.
4. Place seal on a cookie sheet and bake at 300 degrees F for 10 minutes.
5. When cooled, press it into an ink pad and then press it on paper.


  THE GREAT PYRAMID


Materials Needed:
Cereal box cardboard or posterboard
Pencil
Ruler
Marker
Scissors
Transparent tape
Instructions:
1. Measure a 6” square on the
cardboard and cut it out. Then measure 4 triangles on another
piece of cardboard. Cut these out also.
2. Draw lines to look like stone or brick (large) on the triangle pieces.
3. Tape each side piece to the square piece.
4. Bring the points together and tape.

References / Source:
Great Salt Lake Council
 

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