Hands-On Ancient History: Egyptian Reed Boat Model


Since we are beginning our study of Ancient Egypt with the Nile River, we made a model of their reed boats.
At our time spent at Turner's Creek park last week, we gathered some willow branches.
We wanted to make some Egyptian-style reed boats for our study of Ancient Egypt. This pile of branches made two small reed boats, so you need to collect a good amount of them to make the boats.
We followed the directions from Creekside Learning.
We stripped the leaves off the branches and cut them into 12-14 inch pieces in order to make them Playmobil size. Using one of the branches, we tied a bundle of them together, and then bent the bundle by using a rubber band to hold them into a "U" shape, and left it for a few days to dry in that position. We added a couple of zip ties to them to make sure they keep together.
Once dry, you can remove the rubber bands and the boats are ready for display and play.




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