If you’re studying Ancient Sumer or Ancient Mesopotamia, then your students will love these hands-on activities which get them making art, crafts, and writing from the earliest civilisations!
This pack has lots of activities you can pick and choose from, that will give students an insight into the crafts and technology that the first civilisations in Mesopotamia used.
Students can:
- explore cuneiform script with two different scripts to try
- practice weaving
- make a woven basket
- make a paper model of the Ishtar Gate
- make a clay bowl
- make a clay tablet and write cuneiform on it
The pack includes student hand-out instructions and a PDF slideshow version of the instructions, plus the template to make the Ishtar Gate.
You will need:
- wool
- thick card (for weaving)
- paper cups
- air-drying clay
- paint (optional)
- scissors, glue sticks, coloring pencils
- wooden skewers
- paper or light card (for the Ishtar Gate)
U.K. and U.S. versions included.
I hope your students enjoy making their Ancient Sumer crafts.
You will receive a zip file with PDFs. If you have any trouble downloading, just reach out to me at info@zigglelearning.com.
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