Pyramid Making

We have sand all over our dining room and have been hard at pyramid building for about 3 weeks now (and we're so glad that it's out of the house now and we can clean everything up)...
...it started with a lot of math...
...figuring squares and right angles and acute angles...
...and triangles that would be the perfect height...
...to come together...
...and form a perfect pyramid...
...then Scout spread glue over the pyramid...
...and wrapped it with yarn...
...because yarn should be part of every project - right...
...er...um...right...
...then he made some smaller polyhedrons for the 'wive's pyramids' - which he promptly covered with papier-mâché...
...now you can see what the yarn was for - yarn covered with papier-mâché looks just like rows of bricks - now you know...
...next, he painted everything the colour of sand...
...then he cut open one side of the pyramid - of course the inside of the pyramid has to be furnished...
...while waiting for Confirmation class at the Church to start - he gathered some grass and made some little Egyptian boats - you see every spare moment has been consumed by this project...
...next he painted all the pyramids with glue...

...that's a sticky job...
...and took them out to the garage where they got a sand shower - now we have sand all over the house...
...the mortuary temple needed a little more artwork before he was ready for his sand bath - columns had to be drawn on the interior...
...then we mixed up some salt dough and Scout carved out the interior of the pyramid - galleries, false tombs, true tombs, air shafts, escape shafts - it's all in there...
...he painted the Nile River on the base with some glue tinted with food colouring - this dries to a clearish watery looking river...
...he formed a salt dough sarcophagus and painted it gold...
...he painted the interior salt dough slab...
...added a box for the true burial chamber complete with heiroglyphics (they're visible in the grand gallery as well) - and hot glued in some supporting slabs...
...he labeled everything on the interior and popped it into place inside the pyramid...
...Scout labeled everything outside - and put the capstone in place...
...he is so proud of his finished project...
...he added several extra labels - things that weren't on the required list...
...and typed (have I mentioned how awesome it is that he can type!) a little note explaining how to open the pyramid - a super neat little trick - you lift the capstone and pull down the side...
...an aerial view...