Kids activity web links
You can have lots of fun online visiting these websites...
Ancient Egypt Web links
- Egypt Tutankhamun’s Face Revealed (ABC) Really exciting video clip of Tutankhamun's body revealed
- The Mystery of the Tattooed Mummy: National Geographic for Kids
- King Tut Info, X-rays, the whole bit
- Hieroglyphic Name Translator See how your name looks in Egyptian symbols.
- The Alphabet in Hieroglyphs (hieroglyphics)
- Egyptology on Line Wonderful colours, graphics and a load of information that could keep you reading for hours
- Ancient Egypt for Kids All kinds of interesting facts about heaps of subjects like school, famous pharaohs
- Trivia quiz Including answers to questions such as, 'What did Ancient Egyptians believe cured toothache?' and 'Where did Egyptians wear their perfume?'
- Pyramids, Mummies and Daily Life - Cleveland Museum of Art
- More on Mummies - Cleveland Museum of Art
- Treasures of Tutankhamun's Gallery
- Mummies at the British Museum Click on the thumbnail pictures and more information will pop up. Find out about the Mummy of Cleopatra from Thebes, who was wrapped so tightly that her hip was dislocated.
- Great photos and short facts about Egypt: National Geographic For Kids
- Mummies, Museum of Science Boston This is really cool. Photo and facts about mummies. And an X-ray that shows the skeleton inside the bandages.
- 3-D view of a mummy done with a CAT scan, Museum of Science Boston
- Latest Archaeology News from BBC, UK Keep up to date with the latest discoveries
- Canopic Jars
- Ancient Egyptian virtual Temple Amazing graphics and a ton of information
- Authentic Egyptian names and their meanings
- Egyptian Museum Do you know what a wesekh is?
- Egyptian Jewellery
- Egyptian Brainteasers National Geographic for Kids
- British Museum Learn interesting things about life in Ancient Egypt
Games, Crafts and Activities about
Ancient Egypt web links
- Museum of Science Mystery Message Excavation Game
- Have a go at Henna hands
- Colouring-in Book, printable
- Dots and Diamond: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Mummies
- Tomb of the Unknown Mummy: Online Game
- Build a Pharaoh Death Mask (craft)
- How to Play Hounds and Jackals - similar to Snakes and Ladders
- How to play the ancient Egyptian game, Senet
- Riddle of the Sphinx game Answer the Sphinx's three riddles to open the gates to Thebes.
- Mummy Maker Enter the embalmer's workshop, where you are to prepare the body of Ramose, officer to the king, for burial.
- Hunt the Ancestor Interactive Game - BBC, UK Experience some of the realities of being an archaeologist by playing Hunt the Ancestor
- Game - guide the lost mummy through the maze to his pyramid
- Mummy in Museum, colouring page
- Mummy Wrapping, colouring page
- Mummy Word Search
- How to Draw a Picture of an Ancient Egyptian
- Mummy Hunt Online Game
- Three games Hieroglyphics Puzzle, Falling Lotus, Tutankhamun Puzzle
- Games Many links to games connected to Ancient Egypt
General Weblinks
- Amazon - Choose your own adventure story: David Harris
- The Neverending Quiz: ABC - science, animals and other topics.
- Madagascar - the movie: info about the real Madagascar, games, videos, downloads.
- Mazes (printable): ABC Teach
- Sea Creatures Crossword online: BBC.
- David Suzuki Kids' Nature Challenge: 10 nature challenges, activities and links.
- Museum of Art, North Carolina, Mystery of the Poison Dart Frog: Interactive mystery involving the rain forest and artworks.
- Ways of Knowing Trail: Choose your own path trek into a jungle, with a certificate you can print at the end.
- Science Toy Maker: Instructions for making interesting toys.
- Protozone Games: interactive games - I just wish I could get all those bees out of the hive.
- Club Penguin.
- Online Games: Sydney Aquarium.
- More Games: including 'Backflips', 'Fancy Pants' & 'BMX Backflips.
- Children's Museum of Indianapolis: This link take you to the games section, including 'Designing your own Space Station' and 'The Bone Detective'.
- Thomas Kidd School YouTube Golf Contraption: video shows an amazing contraption that Mr MacMath's class made, and it took them five months.
- Puzzle Pixies: puzzles to test out your thinking skills.
- ABC Rollercoaster: games and puzzles (for some you need to download Shockwave).
My book Mask of the Jackal has a deaf character called Jordy. These websites have some examples of sign language. It's fun to try:
Auslan Sign Bank (Australian): how to fingerspell, sign number or words.
Like a dictionary, but you can watch a video of someone signing. This
site has the two-handed alphabet, used in Australia, UK and other
countries - and also the one-handed alphabet, used in USA.
Deafblind website (UK) Drawings of the two-handed alphabet, and tips on how to communicate
with deaf people. It also gives some history of how sign language came
to be.
DLTK'S Printable colouring sheets, also showing American or British sign language.
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature Sharon Pajka-West has made a list of books for young readers that feature deaf characters.