Has anyone actually been in an egg and spoon race? I've only read about them in books.

[cimorene]

The problem with getting a bee in your bonnet about a new interest when it's drawing is that you keep drawing until your right hand feels a bit burny without necessarily noticing and you still keep wanting to draw more anyway.

I don't have a readily-accessible pile of stuff to read at the moment, just a list of books to track down. They don't work as a distraction if you have to go looking for them first. I'm trying knitting to give my hand a break from lettering now, which seems silly because it's something else that can make my hand cramp! But it's not quite the same muscles and movements, so maybe it'll work for a while. It did for a couple of hours last night anyway.

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[james]

I have! 5th grade school carnival. For me it was easy because I'd been cooking for a few years by then so I was used to balancing things in a spoon while you traverse the kitchen without spilling.

Also it depends on what size spoon they give you. ;-)

[cimorene]

Now I'm imagining with one of those huge wooden serving spoons. Or a ladle.

[daegaer]

Another egg-and-spooner here! Although my primary school took the sensible route and used small potatoes. I can't really remember the spoon size, but it wasn't enormous.

[cimorene]

New potatoes will be in season soon and I cannot WAIT. Every time I go to the store and the local potatoes are still big I'm like "AUUUUUUGRRRHHGHGH" and Wax is like "Soon!"

They're so tasty you could use the potatoes as prizes. Although maybe not in primary school since they couldn't cook them themselves.

[which_chick]

I have egg-and-spooned on foot (elementary school) and ALSO on horseback, where it is a fairly common "old fashioned" horse show fun class. For the horseback version, you get a standard plastic picnic spoon (the kind that comes in the big cheap bag of mixed utensils at the Dollar Store or WalMart or whatever) and a regular chicken egg, raw. You hold the spoon back about 1" from the bowl (they usually draw on the spoon with a sharpie, you must be behind the line on the spoon handle) in your preferred hand and then proceed to ride your horse as instructed by the ringmaster (eg. "Walk" or "jog" or "trot" or "canter" or "halt" and so forth...) until there is only one person with an egg-equipped spoon left. Once your egg leaves the spoon, you go to the center of the ring to wait until the class is over. It's a good time.

[cimorene]

ON HORSEBACK... the images! I wish they did this as part of haut ecole so I would've seen it in the same clip compilations with the horse dancing and hopping.

[cesy]

I have

[cimorene]

I'm starting to feel like I was really unfairly robbed based on the number of responses to this post!

[stellar_dust]

We did not have egg & spoon races at school as I recall, but we did do them at family reunions a couple of times, and possibly also at summer camp.