Made in Egypt: Pryamids

Our future engineer - or maybe, architect - hard at work

In one day we managed to accomplish something that took thousands of Ancient Egyptians twenty years to do: we built a pyramid... actually two! Of course, our pyramids were not 200-foot tall structures built with 4,000 pound stone bricks, but six-inch high sugar cube creations.

Each pyramid used 95 sugar cubes, plus the one each of the boys was permitted to eat upon completion of their building project. Ryan measured out the area of the 6 x 6 base, outlined it with pencil and carefully filled in the space with glue; each level was precisely set on top of the last. Connor was a bit less meticulous in his building efforts, but the result was equally as impressive.

Connor's Egyptian Step-Pyramid

What a fun introduction to this incredible aspect of Ancient Egyptian architecture!