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Egyptian Party with Pyramid Cake

Egyptian Party with Pyramid Birthday Cake

This was an Egyptian slumber party with lots of blue and metallic gold decorations, mummy games and a giant pyramid tent that all the girls slept in.

Egyptian Party with Giant Gingerbread Pyramid Cake for Kayden's 7th. April 2006.

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Ten Foot High Pyramid Tent

My husband took 10' wood curtain rods and drilled a hole in each near the end, then tied together with rope. I sewed up 2 cotton drop cloths (9' x 12') into a cover, leaving one seam half open for an entrance.
Decorated entrance with blow-up palm trees.
We put foam mats across the floor of it, threw blankets over them and called it a day. The kids loved sleeping in the pyramid that night!

Egyptian Pyramid Cake Made Out of Gingerbread

All the kids decorated a gingerbread pyramid cake using candy and chocolate, although I stayed in charge of applying the royal frosting.

To Make The Giant Pyramid Cake

Bake gingerbread in 2 sheet pans, then cut into 4 equilateral triangles with 9.5" sides. Cut a paper pattern first.
Glue these gingerbread triangles onto a cardboard pyramid form with royal icing.
Set out trays of hard candy - jelly beans, mini M&Ms, bottle caps, Twizzler Pull-n-Peels, etc., and let the kids go to town on the cake!

Mummy Cookie Decorating

Created a 7" mummy cookie cutter using tin and scissors.
Cut out gingerbread mummies for the kids to decorate and eat when the party was just starting. Used the same candy as for giant pyramid.
That's the mummy cookie on the left. Fancy!

Treasure Cakes

Small pyramid cake pans: Each child also had an individual pyramid case baked using steel pyramid pans. (Pans are available from http://cooksdream.com - The Ultimate Baker.)
Set the pyramid pans into small baking pans or glass Pyrex measuring cups to bake.
I put a prize into one cake by cutting out a small core from the bottom using a grapefruit/apple corer, inserting a blue M&M and then replacing the core and proceeding with frosting the cakes. (I tried baking the candy inside, but it just dropped to the point of the pyramid and was exposed.)
The child that picked the cake with the M&M received a prize.

Golden Isis Pinata for Kid's Egyptian Birthday Party

To create the golden Isis Pinata, I started with a Hula Girl pinata and converted her using gold metallic tissue paper (available from www.nashvillewraps.com).
Downloaded photo of beaded necklace to cut out and decorate the pinata.

Egyptian Party Decorations

Used gold and blue streamers, metallic gold table cloth with metallic blue cups and plates.
Covered chairs with blue and gold felt.
Mummy cookies laid out on stunning royal blue mosaic serving platter by Susan Walker.

Dessert Party Decorations

Decorated wall with turquoise and cream colored plastic table cloths and paper palm trees. Drew paper pyramids and used camel clip art for the finishing touches.

Egyptian Party Games

Mummy Wrapping

Teams of two kids take turns wrapping the other with toilet paper. First team with a completely wrapped up partner wins. Big Hit!

Treasure Hunt

Created "clues" from clip art and hieroglyphs. Provided a Rosetta stone key that the kids used to decode the hieroglyphs to read the clue. I use clip art from the Microsoft Clip Art Gallery.
Clip art pictures placed around the house that held clues on the back. Be sure to put out decoy pictures as well to mix things up.
Hide prizes for all the kids in the final location - we used the washing machine.

Played Pin The Beard On King Tut

Used King Tut clip art and made copies of his beard for the kids to try to place in the correct spot. Poor Tut!!