Cracking Up: Kids devise egg protection
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POLSON — The subject: an egg.
The task: decide how to protect the egg so when it’s dropped it won’t break.
This fun activity for kids on July 3 was part of Fizz Boom Read, the summer reading program at the North Lake County Public Library.
Martel Memmer, youth services librarian, provided cotton balls, tape, paper towel tubes, sheets of foam, Ziplock bags, newspaper, sections of egg cartons and other items for kids to choose as protection for their egg. Parents were on hand to help with tape and scissors.
Myranda Heiser used plastic canvas to make an egg-sized tube with cotton balls to pad the egg on both ends. She poked toothpicks horizontally across the ends of the tube to hold the egg cushioned in its nest. Myranda, her sister Kyla and friend Avari Stone all used soda straws in an x-shape and taped on their egg holders to “break the fall.”
Gracie Carter and Tommy Sherry used lots of “puffy cotton balls” to protect their eggs while Isaac and Kalin DePoe used egg carton pieces and cotton balls to lessen the impact of the fall on their eggs.
Sydney Mellor, 6, had an unusual idea. She used sheets of foam shaped like an envelope and tucked her egg inside with lots of cotton balls.
Then Memmer mounted the stepladder and called the kids up. One by one she dropped the eggs. If they broke, that child was out of the running. Tough eggs that didn’t break went on to the next round, such as Amber Randles’ and Jack Sherry’s eggs.
Each Thursday at 10 a.m. school age children accompanied by a parent can participate in activities at the NLCPL. Thursday activities will continue until Aug. 7, which is the date of the annual bug race.
The summer reading program runs from June 16 to Aug. 14. Anyone who reads, or is read to, may participate in the summer reading programs. Readers register at the NLCPL during business hours from June 16 to July 23 and receive a reading log. For every four hours of reading you have someone sign your sheet and show the librarians your progress so you can earn tickets to place in drawings for special prizes. The prize drawing will be held Aug. 14 in the NLCPL meeting room.
For more information, call the library at (406) 883-8225.
