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Signe,

I didn't write the original message, but would be interested in your
natural dye receipes.

Do you have it in digital form and e-mailable?

Thanks,

Ben Randell
Science City @ Union Station
Kansas City, MO

Signe Pereira wrote:

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> Hi Alissa,
>
> Every last Sunday at the MIT Museum, we do something called Family
> Adventures in Science and Technology.  One month last year it fell on
> Easter Sunday.  So off we went to a local distributor and got 30
> dozen eggs.  Here's what we did:
>
> Egg in a bottle (by the way you can get the egg out with vinegar and
> baking soda but it does make a mess!)
>
> We had an egg drop competition.
>
> Egg throwing.  Throw an egg as hard as you can at a bed sheet or
> large piece of cloth, that is hung very loosely.  The egg won't break
>
> We had kids separate hard boiled from raw eggs by spinning them.
>
> We put several eggs in vinegar so people could see and feel an egg
> with no shell.
>
> Lastly at each station we gave science explanations for each and as
> something fun we gave out recipes for natural egg dyes so kids could
> color eggs.
>
> We still had a lot of eggs left over.  Needless to say the museum
> staff was pretty sick of egg salad for a while!!  If you want any
> more details you can contact me directly.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Signe Pereira, M.Ed.
> Education Coordinator
> MIT Museum
> 265 Massachusetts Ave.
> Cambridge, MA  02139
> Tel: 617-253-9607
> Fax: 617-253-8994
> http://web.mit.edu/museum/
>
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>> What's your favorite cool science activity that involves eggs? I'm
>> trying to
>> get a bunch together (not for Easter, but for National Egg Month,
>> which is
>> May!)
>>
>> I admit I have never tried the classic "egg on the mouth of a jar,
>> drop in a
>> match, egg gets sucked in." And I've never tried it because no one
>> has ever
>> been able to satisfactorily answer the question "And how do you get
>> the egg
>> out?" So I'd love answers to that, and also other suggestions for some
>> egg-sellent fun!
>>
>> Thanks for you sugg-egg-stions.
>> --Alissa
>>
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