How to use drinking straw to protect an egg?

Question

cannot let the egg crack or broke..

need to throw the egg from 2 stories hse..

Answer 1

This is a classic build to protect the egg experiment.  This year my son used straws to construct a "cage" for the egg. He was able to drop it from 20 ft and the egg did not break.  

So, what you do is the following:

1) take a straw (the big plastic kind are the best) and and wrap it around the egg's equator.  Try hard not to kink the straw more then five times. You want the straw to be fully expanded where it touches the egg. It acts as a cushion.

2) do the same thing from the "north pole to the south pole" of the egg. and where the equator straw and the polar straw intersect, try to push the polar straw through a kinked area.  Tape both in place

3) using more straws, make a flat matt of straws on the table and tape them together.  Using this flat matt, wrap this around the equator of the egg, taping it to the equator straw in the begining and onto itself at the end.

4) Using tape bring the straws at the top (north pole) together and tape into a bundle and then the same for the other end.

What you should have is a long fat torpedo looking package.

When you drop it, hold one end and drop it vertically so that it hits the pointy end.  This should move the energy of the drop around the egg and protect it.

Good luck.

Scott

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