Friday, April 18, 2014

Peeling Eggs

I hard boiled eggs for snack this week. 
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I placed them in a bowl on the table for the children to peel.
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They loved the job.  Some have cooked at StrongStart before and had the opportunity to crack a fresh egg.  That was their approach with the hard boiled egg too – smack it on the table.  But when nothing happened we showed them how to pick off the shell to see that the egg was different inside.
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After peeling the egg they placed it in a bowl of water, to rinse, to be sure
all the little pieces of shell were off.
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Then we used an egg slicer which was a new tool for many of the children.
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Slicing it made it easier to share the egg with the group.

As we were peeling the egg one child asked if we could colour the shells. 
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We used our clear coffee mugs so we could observe how the water
changed when we dropped in a dye tablet.
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One egg I took and broke the shell, making cracks around the egg. 
Then placed it in the the yellow dye.
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It was interesting to discover, when we peeled the yellow egg that a little of the dye coloured the egg white but mostly the colour was on the inside of the shell.