Ancient Sumer Mesopotamia Hands-on Activities, Arts, Crafts, Writing, Ziggurat Model

If you’re studying Ancient Sumer or Mesopotamia, then your students will love these hands-on activities which get them making art, crafts, and writing from the earliest civilisations!

This pack has lots of activities you can pick and choose from, that will give students an insight into the crafts and technology that the first civilisations in Mesopotamia used.

Students can:

• Explore cuneiform script with two different scripts to try (Sumerian and old Persian).
• Practice weaving.
• Make a woven basket.
• Make a paper model of the Ishtar Gate.
• Make a clay bowl.
• Make a clay tablet and write cuneiform on it.
• Make a paper ziggurat model (differentiated with two options).
• Make a standing figure of Gilgamesh.
• Make an Assyrian chariot.

You will need:

• wool
• thick card (for weaving and chariot wheels)
• paper cups
• air-drying clay
• paint (optional)
• scissors, glue sticks, coloring pencils
• wooden skewers
• paper or light card (for models)

U.K. and U.S. versions included.

I hope your students enjoy making their Ancient Sumer crafts.