How To Make An Egyptian Coffin Out Of Cardboard
For an egyptian type coffin in particular you might want to paint it gold or glue on gold paper etc.
How to make an egyptian coffin out of cardboard. If you have a mummy model draw around the mummy model so that the case. Hold the base on the cardboard and trace around it to. Draw your own face onto the sarcophagus. The egyptians believed that the dead body had to be recognizable to the spirits so they painted faces on the front.
Cut the mummy casket base out of the cardboard. Bend one long edge inward 1 2 inch on each of the long side panels then do the same to one of the two short sides on each. Draw an egyptian face at the larger end of the shoe box lid complete with headdress and collar. This fringe helps hold the finished coffin together.
Then on the top glue on or paint on bits of turquoise and other gems or paint on a king tut type pic or find a pic to print out and glue on. Cut the sarcophagus out removing the excess card stock. It was common to decorate the lid of an anthropomorphic coffin to look like the deceased. Draw the mummy casket shape on a piece of lightweight cardboard.
Flatten the cardboard again and cut a fringe like pattern every 1 2 inch or so up to the new folds.