The Egg Drop Experiment

Xander (9 years old) had a Cub Scout Day Camp last week which culminated in Friday night's Egg Drop event / family picnic / Ella's B-day dinner. Basically each Cub Scout gets to "protect" an egg within certain criteria and then it is dropped from an 80' crane to see if it cracks. Xander was successful in protecting his egg last year, but his egg didn't survive this year. This year he put his egg inside a balloon and then stuffed newspaper around the egg inside the balloon. Then he saran wrapped the egg, stuffed it into a "Mr. Potato Head" toy, attached a parachute and voila... a protected egg. Or not so much (as it turned out)!!! At least it was fun seeing Mr. Potato Head parachuting from 80'!!!