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Invite your mates to travel back to the days of Tutankhamen, and brave the curse of the mummy in an ancient burial chamber!
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Decorate your room with heiroglyphic wall hangings.
Paint on rolls of paper with Egyptian writing.
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For a creepy feel, make cut outs of asps, scorpions and lizards.
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The Egyptians worshipped cats, so why not make some from card and paint them?
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You could also add some jewelled eyes!
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For costume, your guests could wear a long black wig, a dress made out of gold material and a pair of flip-flops.
You could make a necklace out of sweet wrappers and mosaic tiles.
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Or try going mummy-mad with a costume made out of toilet roll and bandages!
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You could make Scarab Beetle Biscuits - just biscuits decorated with icing beetles!
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Test your ancient engineering skills and build a sandwich pyramid!
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Quench your thirst with Cursed Cocktails.
They're just mixed fruit juices decorated with jelly snakes...
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...and plastic creepy crawly stirrers!
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As the centrepiece to your party, make the fantastic Sarcophagus Lucky Dip.
Get your friends to rummage inside the bandages and find a jewel!
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If they do, they win themselves a goody bag full of chocolate coins and sweets.
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But if they're unlucky and pull out a Scarab Beetle - which feel the same as the jewels...
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...they'll get a snake's head full of jelly snakes and other nasties!
Or they might even have to do a forfeit like an Egyptian Sand Dance!
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So - to make your the Sarcophagus Lucky Dip, get your finger tips on a large cardboard box.
The kind that flowers are delivered in are ideal. If you're go to your local florist they'll probably be happy to let you have one.
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You'll also need a plastic mask that you can get from a joke shop.
Plus, a cardboard box that's a bit wider than the mask.
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Finally, you'll need a piece of card that's as wide as the box, but which has an extra bit on it that will act as a shelf for the mask.
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Use some tape to stick your mask at an angle on the box.
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For the head dress, draw a rectangle on a piece of card that's roughly the same width as the mask and about twice the height.
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Make the rectangle into a bendy triangle shape by drawing a straight-ish line at the top and a curved line down to the bottom corner, like this.
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Cut the shape out and use it as a template to make another one exactly the same.
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Then stick the shapes to either side of the head with some tape.
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The head can now be stuck to the end of the box.
Don't stick it to the main body of the box - just attach it to the lid.
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Also stick down the ends of the head dress.
These look best slightly raised, so stick a square of cardboard underneath.
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Make some arms from rolled up sheets of newspaper.
Stick them in place like this.
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Cover the whole lid with one layer of paper maché.
Use big bits of tissue to cover the arms and body and smaller bits for the detail on the face.
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Then paint the sarcophagus - blue and gold are authentic Egyptian colours.
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Open the box and put in two card walls like this.
The goodies will just go in the middle section.
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Cut out hand holes in the middle section.
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Add things like plastic snakes and sand...
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...also some toilet roll bandages!
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You're now ready to add the all important lucky jewels or unlucky Scarab Beetles.
These are just decorated pebbles. They look different but feel the same!
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Put the jewels and beetles in the box, pop the lid on and you're ready to play.
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