- Write your invitation on a piece of parchment or papyrus paper. Suggest in the invitation that your guests come in costume to fit the theme. Roll the parchment up, and tie it with a gold ribbon.
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Raid thrift shops for cat or snake statues, scarab beetle jewelry, and interestingly shaped vases and candle holders. Prime the items and spray paint everything gold. Set them around the party room. Place the nicest piece on the table as a centerpiece.
Put brown butcher paper across the wall and draw hieroglyphs on it. Use blue crepe paper and blue and gold balloon clusters. Drape your tables in black tablecloths and use gold paper plates and cups.
Get or make cardboard cut-outs of King Tut or Egyptian gods and goddesses. Stand them around the room.
Make a life-sized mummy: Stitch white mittens on the sleeves of a white sweatshirt. Stitch white socks on the bottom of a white pair of sweatpants. Sew the pants and shirt together at the waist, then stuff the entire thing with crumbled newspapers. Make a head by stuffing a pillowcase and tucking it into the neck of the outfit. Wrap it all in toilet paper, bandages, or strips of cotton cloth. Lay it on a table, or tie strings on it and hang it from a hook on the ceiling so it looms menacingly over the guests. -
Set up a craft table for arriving guests with name-tag stickers and markers. Provide the guests with a printout of hieroglyphs (see resources) and have them write their names in hieroglyphs.
Play "Sphinx's Riddles." Gather a number of riddles from joke and riddle books at your library and write them on index cards. Gather your guests and read the riddles, and see if they can figure them out.
Play "Mummy Wrap." Divide guests into teams. Give each team a couple of rolls of toilet paper. On the word go, one person from each team wraps the other person like a mummy. The first team to have a completely covered mummy wins.
Play the song "Walk Like An Egyptian" and have all participants show off their best Egyptian walk. -
Bake sugar cookies into pyramid shapes. Put out a big plate of gold-wrapped chocolate coins. Serve shish kabob or falafel. Make hot dog mummies (see recipe in resources).
Bake several layers of cake in a square pan. Stack the layers with frosting between them. Use a carving knife to transform them into a pyramid shape. Frost the pyramid with butter-cream frosting and sprinkle with crushed vanilla wafers to look like sand.
