Egyptian Collar Necklaces

This week we have been learning all about daily life in Ancient Egypt. As part of this we looked at the jewellery they wore and made our own collar necklaces.

We started by drawing a plan; deciding what colours we wanted, what materials we were going to use and what our pattern would be. We agreed that most Egyptian collars had a repeating pattern using lots of bright colours.

After this we created our collar necklace by cutting a circle out of a paper plate, making sure it would fit around our necks.

We painted our necklaces gold or silver (or silver and gold) as these were the materials the Egyptians used, then added lots of decoration. The more decoration, the richer the person!

We think they look brilliant!