Favorite Resouce - Mummifying Apples Experiment

We were on an Egypt jag.  I was reading The Golden Goblet out loud to everyone.  We listened to Jim Weiss' cd Egyptian Treasures, Mummies and Myths.

We watched Joseph and the Amazing Techicolored Dreamcoat and The Prince of Egypt.

We'd gotten tons of books out of the library on mummies and pyramid, hieroglyphics and the Nile river.

We went to the traveling King Tut exhibit two hours away in Richmond.  (And then again years later when the younger kids were enthralled with Egypt we went to New York City and visited the Metropolitan museum up there.  We went through two distinct Egypt jags, one with the older 3 kids and one with the younger two).

I attempted the famous mummified chicken activity of Susan Wise Bauer fame, but alas keeping a chicken in a dark cupboard was fatal to it's success.  Weeks later I realized I'd forgotten about it.  Boy did it stink!  Gag!

But mummifying apples was something I could really do.  In fact over the course of our homeschooling life we actually did this experiment twice.  It worked spectacularly well both times.

When I look back I recall mummifying apples with fondness.  It really was a quite satisfactory experiment!  There are tons of how to's on this.  But we used the above linked Newton's Apple one.

NB:  Don't use plastic cups!  You can use some old mugs or mason jars instead.