Egg Rolling

After our project about animals that hatch from eggs, I was reading the kids some fiction books about eggs.  They were Pup and Hound Hatch an Egg, which is about two dogs who find an egg, protect it, and watch as it hatches into a baby turtle, and The Chick That Wouldn't Hatch, which is about an egg that hatches only after a crazy, bumpy ride.

 

Though the stories are different, we noticed that they have a similar page in each:

Gotta love a good text to text connection.

After I pointed it out, Drew wanted to roll some eggs down a hill.  Since we were using our staircase as a hill, he was forced to settle for plastic Easter eggs.  First we had races.  Then the goal became throwing the eggs so they cracked open at the bottom of the "hill".

The kids experimented with the eggs for a long time exploring things like:

• which size egg rolled faster
• what things fit inside the egg
• how hard to throw the eggs so they'd break open
• if the eggs broke more easily with things inside

After some trial runs involving Little People toys and Strawberry Shortcake's comb (S.S. herself wouldn't fit inside the egg, so she went sailing down without a protective outer shell), our scientific conclusion was that coins made for the best and most satisfying cracking.