Today was all about eggs. The girls cracked a bunch and made omelets. What kid doesn’t love cracking eggs?!
Then we checked on the brown egg we soaked in a jar of vinegar over night.
The vinegar dissolved the shell and left a rubber coating on the egg. You could feel the yolk inside. These sensory loving kids couldn’t get enough of this tactile experience!
Next we tried the sure to please experiment of sucking a hard boiled egg into a bottle, 2 different ways.
For the first experiment you will need a peeled hard boiled egg, a glass bottle with an opening that is smaller then the egg-like a milk or juice bottle, and 3 matches.
Light each match and quickly put it inside the glass jar one at a time
Then quicly place the egg on top
It will get sucked into the bottle. But I think the girls had more fun trying to get the egg back out! Blowing into the jar is supposed to push the egg back out-but it didn’t seem to be working.
They resorted to skewers
Then we tried the same experiment by pouring boiling water into the jar, swirling it around the sides, then pouring it back out and again placing the egg on top.
And it worked again! And again they spent more time trying to get the egg out of the jar!! There are a million sites that explain the science behind these experiments. Here is one. Here is another. And one more.
We couldn’t end with out something pretty! So we cut out the bottom of a cardboard egg carton to make little pots and painted them. Then cut out the bottoms of the Styrofoam cartons to make pretty flowers and then stuck a craft stick through both! Happy Spring.
Fun fun fun! I love egg days! You remind me of all the egg cartons piling up on my fridge. We usually give to the guy we buy eggs from but haven’t seen him in a while.
I love those flowers!
So much fun! Egg science is both cool and disgusting. I mean what could be better?
I discovered your site by googling “reusing newspaper” or something like that and came across your newspaper hut. Now I am HOOKED! You do all the cool stuff I wish I did with my kids. I do a lot of cool stuff and could do more if I was home with them… but anyway. Love the site! Look forward to getting to know you!
Egg experiments are fun. You did two of the well know ones… Suck the egg into a bottle and the naked egg where you remove the shell. There is one more that is totally great and the kids love it. It’s called the folding egg. You can see it on my website in the videos section. There is also instructions on how to do it.
Where do you get all of your great ideas? I love the fact that you are teaching your children to be inquisitive. I hope i spelled that correct!!!!!! Your site is great and an inspiration. Thanks