6. Paint the mummy the brownish color of 3,000-year-old leather (yuck).
7. Paint the masks. I told Basia she could copy the design on the box if she wanted to be authentic. She said, "uh, no thanks."
8. Wrap the mummy in all those strips you painstakingly cut and dyed. Try not to let his lower half completely separate from the upper half. (This was not an instruction in the book but something that seemed to be an issue for us.)
9. Make the mummy bag. Put the mummy in his bag, and use rubber bands to make sure he never comes back out.
10. It is time to put that mummy in his final resting place. One of them, at least. Then cover his face with the mask that is painted to look just like the Pharaoh in real life so his spirit can recognize him when it comes back for a rest. I'm not sure why he was so blue in real life, but Basia must know.
11. Cover him again, this time with his ornate, bejewelled sarcophagus lid. The kit claimed that you could use paint to look like jewels since they did not provide any real jewels.
12. Now your mummy is ready to be placed in the outer coffin.
13. Many days and countless messes later, the lid is placed on this mummy, never to be lifted again. Well, OK it will be lifted by one proud little girl every single time she wants to show someone or to see her masterpiece herself. She has been sternly warned against taking the wrappings off, however. I cannot bear to think that all that work will end up a pile of rubble on Basia's floor.
14. I do not have a picture of this step because it has not YET happened. I have little doubt that it will, though. Step 14 is for a little girl to start having nightmares about mummies. That little girl will open her bedroom door late one night, place a certain mummy box outside the door to her room, banishing it forever.
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