The costumes for dd and I are made the same as the directions for our Egyptian costumes. For ds, I used a Bible character pattern since he wanted a vest. He chose shades of purple since he portrayed a Phoenician trader of purple dye.
DS was quite particular about his costume. He painted a dark purple band at the bottom of the robe. Then he cut the fringe.
Our Ancient Greek fresco painting was fun. I saved styrofoam trays from frozen meat that I cleaned up in soap and water, then clorox. (Actually I did that for dd. DS form was a round styrofoam plate.) Then I had the dc plan what they wanted to paint. Fresco painting must be done wet and dries quickly...at least ours did. So they sketched and colored on a sheet of paper their design. I let them choose any design they wanted. It did not have to be a copy of an Ancient Greek design, although that certainly would have been interesting. Then I mixed and poured plastic of paris into the trays. As soon as they started to set, the dc used their water colors to paint on the wet plaster. After it completely dried we popped them out of the trasys.
For Indian (the country) pottery, the dc paper mached a blown up balloon. Then they painted in shades of brown and orange. This time I did have them try to imitate some of the ancient designs using a black marker.
For the Mayan pottery, I had the dc use Sculpy clay that we baked. Then they did a Mayan design with a black marker.
These silver cups are simply styrofoam painted silver. Then the dc etched a design on them.
 Here are some Phoenician projects. DD dyed fabric in red cabbage that had been boiled on top of the stove. We cut up several strips in 2" widths, and took one strip out after 10 minutes, another after 1 hour, another after 5 hours, another after 11 hours, and the last after 22 hours. After they dried we pressed them and stacked them on top of each other to form a color graduation from light at the botton to dark at the top. We cut the strips into graduating sizes so that the different shades would show. DD put it on black card stock and topped off the fabric with a couple of purple beads.
DD also made a necklace with purple beads.
DS made the murex seashell out of sculpey clay, that he baked and painted. This is the shell from which the purple dye is collected. From the way it is laying, you can see the purple inside.
We had fun making casts from molds. 
First the dc sculpted a form out of sculpey. We did not bake this. We wanted it to stay flexible.
Then I mixed up plaster of paris to pour into the molds.
When they were dry, the dc painted them with copper paint to represent some of the ancient art. This is actually how some of the art was done, even back then.
We kept both the mold and cast for the unit celebration to explain the process.
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