Egg-tivity: Seatbelt Safety to Protect an Egg
While LD was away at summer camp, the girls did a few egg-tivities of their own. First in preparation for the activity, they made their own pinewood derby cars (just kits that we got from Michaels).
Once the paint was dry and the wheels were on, I told them they had a challenge… to create a seatbelt safety system to protect an egg as the car traveled down our steep driveway. DD experimented with a couple different options. First she tried using pipe cleaners:
When she couldn’t get the egg from popping forward, though, she opted for a rubber band system instead.
Although her egg stayed in place, her egg did not survive the bumpy ride down the hill. To be fair, though, her egg had a slight crack to begin with (from rolling off during the seat belt adjustment phase!).
She gave it a second go with a pom-pom addition (I”m not quite sure what the pom-pom was for)… but egg pilot #2 came to a bitter, sad end as well! She really had a blast with this activity despite the sad end for her eggs!
Meanwhile, ED declared she wanted a kitty to ride her car instead. Kitty made many, many safe trips down our driveway for an entire afternoon of fun! That’s what it’s all about, right?!!
If you’re looking for other egg-tivities, we had a ton of fun with eggs around Easter. Be sure to visit those posts and download our entire Egg-speriment pack.
Do you want to do more egg-speriments? Check out all of these posts!
- Human Body Experiment – Protect That Brain!
- Science EggSperiments: Just in time for Easter! (Part 1 of 4)
- 3 More Quick EggSperiments: How strong is that egg? (part 2 of 4)
- 4 More Science EggSperiments: (Part 3 of 4)
- Finally, it’s here!! The Free EggSperiment Pack!
Have fun and see you next time! If you try these out at home, we’d love to hear from you at our Homeschool Den Facebook page!
