Crafts & Projects on Ancient Greece
The Ancient Greece Activities on this page give great suggestions for kids crafts and projects on the ancient Greek civilization.
Find ideas to make a Trojan horse or Greek shields. Get creative with projects on Greek mythology or the Olympics, which originated at Mt. Olympus in Greece! Make an urn or play a card game to learn about ancient Greece while having fun. All of these ancient Greece activities make learning history fun for kids.
Find more Ancient History projects on our pages for Ancient History—General Topics, as well as projects for Archeology & Ancient Cultures, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Rome. All of these categories have a separate page of their own.
Ancient Greece Activities
This site offers lots of good ancient Greek crafts for the upper elementary school child, including directions for a paper mache Trojan horse, a pasta drama mask, and more!
If you don’t mind putting in the extra effort, creating a paper mache horse makes good sense when you want to illustrate how soldiers hid inside the Trojan horse! Here are instructions!
Print this paper Trojan Horse for students to cut, color (optional), and assemble from DLTK’s Crafts for Kids.
This site has several characters from Greek mythology to print, color (optional), and assemble. The only other supply needed is a toilet paper tube. Characters available are Zeus, Perseus, Medusa, Harpy, the Cyclops, and Athena, all from DLTK’s Crafts for Kids.
Use rounds of cardboard and classical Greek Shield patterns to make your own authentic shields.
History Pockets: Ancient Greece by Evan-Moor. UE
Read our review of the History Pockets series!
Stage your own Olympic Games
with Spartans vs. Athenians! Our class did the Discus Throw (i.e.,
Ring Toss); Racing (i.e., with a Maze on paper OR blowing a ping pong
ball to the Finish Line); Archery (i.e., flicking a marble onto a flat
target OR Bean Bag Toss); and Wrestling (i.e., Thumb or Arm Wrestling). Use the Olympic Award Certificate from A Book In Time to fill out and keep in your notebook as a memory of all the fun.
Literature Pockets, Greek & Roman Myths, Grades 4-6
The History Pockets series has a Literature-based book on Greek & Roman Myths. Learn and create! Projects are supplied for 8 myths, and all handwork can be stored in the “pockets” the student creates.
Have you read the Greek myth of Arachne? Make a spider bracelet to go along with the story! Better yet, create and eat spider cupcakes!
The Book of Greek Myths Pop-Up Board Games is a unique treasure! It includes 4 pop-up Board Games on the Trojan Horse, Odysseus, Theseus & the Minotaur, and Daedalus & Icarus, along with a 14-page book of the stories. Learn and play, and then play some more!
Make a Grecian Urn out of paper mache. These instructions walk you through everything step-by-step. Click here.
All
kids seem to be enthralled with Medusa!! They will love to make this
mask surrounded by her snakes. The instructions also show you how to
make a shield with the same design. It’s easy, too! Click here to see
how to make the Medusa Mask or Shield.
Print & cut out playing cards of the Greek gods to play a Matching game or to play Snap.
Archeology & Mesopotamia
Click here for creative ideas to learn about archeology for kids. Also on this page are project ideas for ancient Mesopotamia.
Ancient Egypt
Click here for hands-on projects on Ancient Egypt.
Ancient Rome
Click here for hands-on history projects on Ancient Rome.
Please e-mail us with any links to add to this collection!
