Invite your mates to travel back to the days of Tutankhamen, and brave the curse of the mummy in an ancient burial chamber!
Decorate your room with heiroglyphic wall hangings.

Paint on rolls of paper with Egyptian writing.
For a creepy feel, make cut outs of asps, scorpions and lizards.
The Egyptians worshipped cats, so why not make some from card and paint them?
You could also add some jewelled eyes!
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.
Or try going mummy-mad with a costume made out of toilet roll and bandages!
You could make Scarab Beetle Biscuits - just biscuits decorated with icing beetles!
Test your ancient engineering skills and build a sandwich pyramid!
Quench your thirst with Cursed Cocktails.

They're just mixed fruit juices decorated with jelly snakes...
...and plastic creepy crawly stirrers!
As the centrepiece to your party, make the fantastic Sarcophagus Lucky Dip.

Get your friends to rummage inside the bandages and find a jewel!
If they do, they win themselves a goody bag full of chocolate coins and sweets.
But if they're unlucky and pull out a Scarab Beetle - which feel the same as the jewels...
...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!
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.
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.
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.
Use some tape to stick your mask at an angle on the box.
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.
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.
Then stick the shapes to either side of the head with some tape.
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.
Also stick down the ends of the head dress.

These look best slightly raised, so stick a square of cardboard underneath.
Make some arms from rolled up sheets of newspaper.

Stick them in place like this.
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.
Then paint the sarcophagus - blue and gold are authentic Egyptian colours.
Open the box and put in two card walls like this.

The goodies will just go in the middle section.
Cut out hand holes in the middle section.
Add things like plastic snakes and sand...
...also some toilet roll bandages!
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!
Put the jewels and beetles in the box, pop the lid on and you're ready to play.

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