Easy Easter Egg Experiment

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More than likely you'll have plenty of boiled eggs around this Easter. So instead of just coloring them why don't you do something useful with them... like using them to show kids how important it is that they brush their teeth and brush them well.

Thanks to About.com's Tammy Davenport's Dentistry Blog, here is an experiment that is not only fun and educational, but it just might end you or sink-side struggles (i.e. getting little kids to brush their teeth). By performing this experiment, kids can actually see what the effects of brushing off plaque look like. This can be done by one or several children, and it should be supervised by an adult. You will need:

1. Hard boiled eggs (one per child)
2. Cola or dark-colored soda (8 oz per child)
3. Toothbrush (one per child)
4. Toothpaste containing fluoride
   

Before the experiment, boil an egg(s). Place the egg in a glass of soda for a day. The next day, show them how the now-discolored and yellowish stained egg is exactly how teeth look with plaque on them. Then give each child a toothbrush with a little toothpaste on it and let them brush the "plaque" off of the egg.

The first one to clean their egg gets to eat their egg!

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