Egg Blowing

This is Daughter #2 with a blown egg that she decorated at school. The teacher sent home a note requesting that each child bring in two blown eggs and included instructions on how to do it. Good thing, because I have never attempted such a thing before. Since they were needed the day following the band concert, it was a busy evening and we didn't get to the egg-blowing project until about 9:45 p.m. My daughter and I followed the instructions exactly and were practically blowing our brains out to no avail. We were getting miniscule amounts of egg guts out of the egg. You needed a magnifying glass to see that we were getting anything out at all. I was strangely reminded of childbirth as I was blowing and trying not to hyperventilate, only childbirth was easier and much more rewarding. We decided the holes in the eggs needed to be bigger than the teacher's instructions indicated. So we attempted to enlarge the holes. This resulted in two broken eggs. I was ready to call it quits at that point. My daughter told me the teacher said, "You better have a very good reason for not bringing in two eggs." Does "My mom is craft impaired." count as a very good reason? Thankfully, my husband with his superior skills and lung power came to the rescue. He managed to punch larger holes into the next two eggs without breaking them and had them blown out in about 30 seconds each. I hope no other teachers of my children request blown eggs in the future. I was not enchanted with the process. It would have been just as easy to glue all those pieces of construction paper on a regular boiled egg, in my humble opinion.