Festival Project Ideas
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Make an alphabet scroll, using dowels, ribbon, tape, glue, and black ink. Explain how you made
it and how it was used.
Is there an aspect of ancient Greek life politics, education, or economics you want to know
more about? Then find a fun way to share it with a friend.
Draw or make a model of a maze, and use it to illustrate the story of Theseus and the
Minotaur.
Create a board game about ancient Greece. Utilize a dice roll and fate cards, but make it
accurate. Give it a clever name.
Make a wax-covered writing tablet and accompanying stylus. Demonstrate using it during
your presentation.
Illustrate and explain the instruments a Greek doctor might have used to treat and heal his
patients
Research an aspect of the less pleasant or shady side of Greek life. Explain how slavery
functioned, how Greeks kept clean, where they went to the bathroom, what happened to the
homeless, how men treated women, how children were raised, or the practice of animal
sacrifices, etc.
Research Socrates and the Socratic dialogue. Then write a one to two page example of it.
You might perform your dialogue with a small group.
Act out Homer’s ​
The Iliad ​
or the ​
The Odyssey​
, either the entire epic or an important part
of it.
Research ancient Greek designs (fets) and make examples to present or display.
Make Greek food. Research what ancient Greeks ate. Prepare and serve recipes of more
contemporary Greek foods, like gyros, baklava, spinach pie, and Greek salads, and explain
their origins.
Explain, illustrate, or demonstrate the events of the early Olympic games.
Research ancient Greek music. Present how it was used in Greek culture. Compare
contemporary and ancient Greek music.
Research Greek musical instruments. Create a presentation or a display showing examples
from ancient Greece or, if you can, make one or two and demonstrate how they were used.
Research the art of dancing in ancient Greece. Then perform an example of such a dance
with a recorded narrative explaining it. Then demonstrate a more modern Greek dance.
Collect pictures of ancient Greek art and architecture. Display them and explain the
pictures during your presentation.
Make a mosaic or fresco in the ancient Greek style. Explain the process and history of this
particular art form.
Create a presentation or display about different kinds of ancient Greek pottery and their
uses, funeral urns, drinking cups, storage jars, etc.
19. Research Greek pottery. then make two terra-cotta vases: one with red figures, one with
black figures. Share what you learned and how you made the pottery.
20. Make a Greek frieze with heroic scenes from mythology or historical events. Use clay, flour
paste, etc.
21. Make a statue or bust of a Greek god or goddess. Use wood, wire, tape, burlap, plaster of
Paris, or styrofoam, and various tools to complete it. Explain how you make it and provide
information about the deity it represents.
22. Make models of Greek coins. Use self-hardening clay, small modeling tools, toothpicks, silver
or gold paint, etc. Explain the different kinds of currency used in ancient Greece.
23. Make a Greek chlamys or cape, and decorate it with traditional ancient Greek designs. Carve
the mold for the design out of a half potato with a craft knife, or use a large rubber eraser.
Use fabric paint on the cape.
24. Make or draw the three classical column styles of ancient Greece. Doric, Ionic, and
Corinthian. Label the various parts and explain the construction of Greek temples.
Self-hardening clay and small carving tools will help you create and shape scrolls, leaves, and
other decorative elements.
25. Make a large relief map of ancient Hellas. Then explain how geography shaped the Greek
character and, for the most part, kept the Greeks’ city-states separate.
26. Make a chart to teach how t pronounce Greek words. Then stage a dialogue in authentic
ancient Greek language between two or three students. See if the rest of the class can
deduce what is being said.
27. Make a model of a Greek ship based on your research of the various kinds of ships of the
period and how the sea influenced Greek life.
28. Create a Greek newspaper or news show, complete with headlines stories, and pictures. Use
your imagination and make sure the content reflects the history of the times. Explain how
your process of newspaper creation differed from what would have happened in ancient
Greece.
29. Make a clay model of the Trojan Horse as mentioned in Homer’s ​
The Iliad.​
Explain how the
horse was used to help the Greeks defeat the Trojans.
30. Make a model of a typical Greek house. Explain the similarities and differences between a
greek home then and now. Explain how the difference reflect or impact daily life then and
now.
31. Create a slideshow presentation explaining the differences between the beliefs of
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
32. Make a poster and a map of military conquests in ancient Greece, and use them to explain
the characteristics of Greek soldiers, the phalanx, and Alexander the Great’s conquests.
33. Make some Greek masks that could be used in tragedies and comedies. Explain their purpose
and why they were made. If you’re doing a Greek theater piece in class, make them in time
to put them to use.
34. Dress up like a greek warrior. Explain the uniform, weapons, and military techniques.
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