Tried and Tested Challenges Easter Supplement A selection of challenges involving eggs.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall… Use one sheet of A4 card to make a support to keep humpty on top of a roller blackboard Test your design by measuring how far you can turn the board before Humpy falls off the board.

Packaging Problem Use a single sheet of A4 card to make a box to package an egg so that it can be dropped from a height of 1 metre without breaking. Better still, decorate the egg as if it was a fine china ornament, which needs be seen through the packaging when on display Rate your attempt: 1.A smasher 2.A cracker 3.Pure dead brilliant

3 Egg Transfer Devices The rules for these can vary greatly. They should be discussed and agreed by the participants in advance. The choice of resources is normally restricted to ‘materials normally found in the home or workshop’ Continued overleaf

Egg Transfer 1.Design and build a device to pick up an egg from the floor at a distance of 1 meter away from you and deposit it on the table, whole. 2.Design and make a device to allow an egg to be transferred from one table-top to another. 3.Design and build a system to project an egg through a hole in a card and catch it unbroken at the other side.

‘Cracking’ Chocolate Eggs Imagine you work for a chocolate company whose hollow Easter eggs break too easily –can you come up with a way to use pasta to toughen the chocolate? How can you test he strength of the chocolate?