How To Mummify A Chicken

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Materials:

1 whole chicken or Cornish Game Hen

4 large zip-lock bags

Boxes of salt

1 bottle of oil [olive or scented oil works best]

Strips of linen or cloth

Strongly scented spices [rosemary, cinnamon, and cloves works best]

Resin or lacquer [optional]

Directions:

1. Give the chicken a name.
2. Wash the chicken and get out the insides and then dab it dry.
3. Put the chicken in a zip-lock bag with two boxes of salt, and close the bag tightly.
4. Check and see if your chicken is drying out. Change the salt about every

ten to twelve days. (This may take from 4 to 6 weeks)

5. Remove the chicken from bag. Clean off all excess salt.
6. Rub oil onto the chicken and then rub the spices onto the skin covering

all of the chicken.

7. Wrap the chicken with strips of cloth until the oil and spices do not soak

through the strips.

8. Optional: Coat the mummy with resin or lacquer.

Make a sarcophagus. Shoeboxes work well. Decorate the sarcophagus using hieroglyphics or other Egyptian style art. Obtain permission to bury the mummies. (We are taking ours mummies to the middle school where our students will attend school next year.) Next year the students can conduct an archaeological dig and write about what is discovered.