A few weeks ago they sent home a flier saying that the Kindergarten egg drop was up coming. I had no idea what this was but I soon learned. The object was to create or find a place for an egg to rest while it was dropped from the school roof so that it would land without breaking. They encouraged us to look online or talk to others who had done it before.
One night previous to the drop both Dad and Mom came up with prototypes for an egg drop cushion. And then came the "Drop off"
I decided to wrap the egg in bubble wrap and then place it in a box of packing peanuts
Derek's design was an egg wrapped in newspaper and placed in a plastic ziplock bag then that was put in a paper bag filled with loosely crumpled newspaper.
Then came the moment of truth! Derek put the ladder against the house and climbed up with the box first.
The landing
Then he climbed up again with his paper bag
Watching them land we weren't as confident as when we started of the success of either idea.
It was a nervous few moments as we opened them up to find...
Dad's egg was broken. Mom's was INTACT!! So naturally that was the design chosen for the big day. It wasn't until we got to the school the day of the official drop that we realized how vanilla our design really was.
It was around freezing the day of the drop. We figured a colder day would help the eggs to not break. I went in earlier in the day to help in Hyrum's classroom and one of my responsibilities was to help the kids write the story of their egg drop designs. There was one little boy who's father HAS to be an engineer, or architect or something. He'd made a tiny little house made of foam board complete with little windows and doors for the egg and attached to the house was helium balloons(a la "Up")! It ended up flying away before it could even be dropped. But others put their egg in a foam football or a pinata
Or had parachutes attached to it. One boy put his egg in a jar full of peanut butter and another put his egg wrapped in bubble wrap and in a nest.
Our next door neighbor put his egg in a loaf of bread. He didn't seem to know it though. When he got to school he told the teacher "I don't have an egg. My mom just gave me this loaf of bread!"
And I'm happy to announce that it survived the drop. As did Hyrum's, of course.
Successful egg drop! We're torn between being sure we'll have success and being a bit more creative next time. We'll see what happens when Noah gets to this point.
One night previous to the drop both Dad and Mom came up with prototypes for an egg drop cushion. And then came the "Drop off"
I decided to wrap the egg in bubble wrap and then place it in a box of packing peanuts
Derek's design was an egg wrapped in newspaper and placed in a plastic ziplock bag then that was put in a paper bag filled with loosely crumpled newspaper.
Then came the moment of truth! Derek put the ladder against the house and climbed up with the box first.
The landing
Then he climbed up again with his paper bag
Watching them land we weren't as confident as when we started of the success of either idea.
It was a nervous few moments as we opened them up to find...
Dad's egg was broken. Mom's was INTACT!! So naturally that was the design chosen for the big day. It wasn't until we got to the school the day of the official drop that we realized how vanilla our design really was.
It was around freezing the day of the drop. We figured a colder day would help the eggs to not break. I went in earlier in the day to help in Hyrum's classroom and one of my responsibilities was to help the kids write the story of their egg drop designs. There was one little boy who's father HAS to be an engineer, or architect or something. He'd made a tiny little house made of foam board complete with little windows and doors for the egg and attached to the house was helium balloons(a la "Up")! It ended up flying away before it could even be dropped. But others put their egg in a foam football or a pinata
Or had parachutes attached to it. One boy put his egg in a jar full of peanut butter and another put his egg wrapped in bubble wrap and in a nest.
Our next door neighbor put his egg in a loaf of bread. He didn't seem to know it though. When he got to school he told the teacher "I don't have an egg. My mom just gave me this loaf of bread!"
And I'm happy to announce that it survived the drop. As did Hyrum's, of course.
Successful egg drop! We're torn between being sure we'll have success and being a bit more creative next time. We'll see what happens when Noah gets to this point.
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