{"id":5590,"date":"2015-04-13T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T03:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2015-04-13T22:52:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T03:52:23","slug":"foldable-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/?p=5590","title":{"rendered":"Foldable Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"

What you need:<\/strong>\"Foldable
\n\u2022raw egg (at room temperature)
\n\u2022 thumbtack
\n\u2022 skewer
\n\u2022 drinking straw
\n\u2022 bowl
\n\u2022 white vinegar
\n\u2022 a glass
\n\u2022 tongs
\n\u2022 baby powder (or cornstarch)<\/p>\n

What you do:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Hold the egg over a bowl and use a thumbtack to pierce a small hole in the pointed end and a larger hole in the other end of the egg.
\n\u2022 Hold the egg very gently to make sure you don\u2019t crack it!
\n\u2022 Use a skewer or unfolded paperclip to carefully break up the yolk inside of the egg.
\n\u2022 Hold a drinking straw over the smaller hole and blow through the opposite end of the straw.
\n\u2022 Run a little water inside the egg and shake it out.
\n\u2022 Use the straw again to blow out any remaining water.
\n\u2022 Place the egg shell in a glass and add enough vinegar to cover the egg.
\n\u2022 Using your fingers or a pair of tongs, gently hold the egg under the liquid until the air escapes and most of the egg shell stays below the surface (this may take several minutes).
\n\u2022 Leave the egg in the vinegar for several hours until the shell begins to break down.
\n\u2022 When the shell has started to break away, you will see a flexible egg shaped layer inside\u2014this is the egg membrane.
\n\u2022 Once the egg shell has completely dissolved, remove the membrane from the glass of vinegar.
\n\u2022 Rinse the membrane in water and gently squeeze it to remove the water from inside.
\n\u2022 Pat it dry with a paper towel.
\n\u2022 Continue tossing until the whole thing has inflated like a balloon.
\n\u2022 Once it has inflated, sprinkle a little baby powder all over the outside.
\n\u2022 Try to get some powder inside as well as it will prevent the sides from sticking together and help the egg inflate more easily next time.
\n\u2022 Set the powder-coated inflated egg on the palm of your hand and press the air out with your fingers.
\n\u2022 Fold the egg in half several times and pinch it slightly so it stays folded, then toss it between your hands again and watch it reinflate! This process of folding and tossing can be repeated several times until the egg membrane dries out and won\u2019t inflate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What you need: \u2022raw egg (at room temperature) \u2022 thumbtack \u2022 skewer \u2022 drinking straw \u2022 bowl \u2022 white vinegar \u2022 a glass \u2022 tongs \u2022 baby powder (or cornstarch) What you do: \u2022 Hold the egg over a bowl and use a thumbtack to pierce a small hole in the pointed end and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,67],"tags":[526,495,557,79],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-science","tag-foldable-egg","tag-fun-science","tag-science","tag-science-fair","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5597,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions\/5597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidscreativearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}