Tomorrow we're going to see the King Tut exhibit. At the last minute (today) I realized I should prep the kids for what we'll be seeing. So I turned to google and pinterest and... did you know that there's nothing out there for preschoolers? No coloring sheets, fact sheets, no "cut out the mummy and put it in the coffin" activities. I'm guessing most teachers don't want to explain to four and five year olds how priests removed all the "guts" and let the body dry out into a wrinkly brown thing before wrapping it up. And let's not forget the importance of removing the brains from the nose! I did find a coloring sheet for a King Tut headdress. And on our bookshelf I found two (goodwill finds!) books to read to them. One was on mummies, the other on pyramids. I glossed over a bit of the mummy stuff, the gods and curses over the tombs. I emphasised the treasures that were buried and we did read about the brains coming out of the nose. The pyramids we mostly looked at the pictures, because honestly, the building methods are quite boring when you're three, and five... and my age.
They colored. Edmund added a pink princess crown sticker to the top of his King Tut. Because being a king, he must need a crown, right? And then they asked questions.
"Will there be pyramids there?" (At the Science Center, tomorrow.) No, because they are very large and they don't move.
"Can we buy a pyramid?" Where would we put one? No. We're not there to buy things.
More coloring. Ian keeps stealing Edmund's pictures. There's yelling.
"So, are the mummies we're going to see... are they rust colored?" I guess they did notice the pictures in the book of the dried out bodies. I mumble something about how they're usually wrapped up, or might look more like a skeleton, but perhaps some are rust colored.
"Have you ever seen a mummy?" Yes. Thanks Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. Which, by the way, is not where you want to take your two year old daughter who is eye level with all the "artifacts" in there.
And then we had lunch. Long Grandma brought over a plate full of goodies, so I told them they could have two each, after they finished lunch. As they're picking them out: "Oh, we tried allll of these when we were at Grandma's last time." I think we've reached our sugar intake for the next three years.
