Egg Boxes

[Guest]

help!! is there anyone out there who is using egg boxes for junk modelling etc.. i am not sure if we are allowed, don't know who made this rule !!!!! i have heard if it has a lion stamp on the egg the boxes would be ok to use. i know it's quite a trivial topic but they make great crocodiles!!!!!

[Guest]

We use them, but we make sure there are no traces of egg on them first. I probably wouldn't risk it if we had a child with a life-threatening egg-allergy, but for most children I am happy that it is safe. I am more and more of the opinion that common sense needs to prevail in these things!

Carolyn

[Marion]

We use egg boxes of all types never heard we arent allowed to.

Cant see what difference the lion mark makes to the box. Friend who owns egg busness and has lion mark sells eggs in any box you take with you

[Guest]

thanks for the replies it have been around since i started 16 years ago, we have never used them!!!

[Deb]

We were offered some recently but weren't sure whether we could use them. We gratefully accepted them as we thought they would be great for our big dinosaur - and they were! She's all big, pink and sparkly now!

[Inge]

recent discussion on this and Beau offered this link,

 

Egg Boxes and Toilet Rolls

 

go down list to find the article

 

Inge

[Guest]

thanks for that Inge at last some written evidence!!!!

 

do aplogise have put this topic in the wrong place

 

it is my first time

[Guest]

So does everybody now use egg boxes?

 

We stopped using them ages ago and would very much like to start again if we can

 

Thanks

[Guest tinkerbell]

I use them all the time. As marion says common sense if they are dirty chuck them.

They make great owls, thats our next project!!

Tinkerbellx

[aliamch]

We've use them to make caterpillars, dragons, 3D flowers and loads of minibeasts can be made from them. So long as you check that they're clean they should be fine.

 

Karrie

[Guest]

definately going to be making our gaint crocodile now , so will be asking parents for lots of boxes!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Just received this months Nursery Education and in it states that egg boxes with the lion mark on are safe.

[hali]

good news

[Guest]

Great i'm fed up of binning them when kind parents bring us bag fulls for junk modelling

[Rea]

I read that about the lion mark in the Nursery World too. But I do remember a post from a member on here who said microwaving wasnt going to kill the germs.

I havent been to a setting yet where egg boxes are allowed.

[Beau]

To be honest I think the reply in Nursery Education wasn't particularly well researched. Remember, most of the people who write these magazines are no more qualified on these matters than we are and are subject to the same urban myths! You are absolutely right Rea, microwaving does not make a jot of difference and is just a waste of time.

[Sue R]

And electricity!!

 

Sue

[Guest]

Perhaps being a bit dense here, but Beau are you saying egg boxes should not be used or simply that it is a waste of time (and electricity) to microwave them? Personally we have always taken the stance that unless we have a child with a specific allergy to eggs, it is ok to use them. They really are a very versitile resource!!

[Beau]

Use them and don't waste the electricity on microwaving. The chance of a child becoming ill is spectacularly small!!

[Guest]

Didn't the egg box myth originate from the Edmina Curry Salmonella scare ?

 

As others have said, common sense, and awareness of individual allergies.

 

Just off to make a John Major ephagy ( spelling!!) out of egg boxes

 

Peggy

 

p.s. Rea, you can visit my preschool any day, should you have the urge to see egg box use in practice

 

Peggy

[Rea]

Thanks for the offer Peggy, but after visiting Sue R's nursery, I have decided that visits to good settings only make me depressed when I have to leave and go back to settings where 6/10 is probably as much as I could give.

But then again....it does sound like a interesting offer

[Sue R]

You're too kind, Rea!