Egg Smash — A Game for When You Need a Minute

LB
Aug 5
2 min read

Updated: Aug 8

Need to run to the bathroom without an audience? Want to wash the dishes before the crust sets in? Have a meeting or deadline with juuuust a little bit left to finish? Now you can do all that and keep your kid entertained—with zero prep, minimal cost, and no mess.

The Egg Smash Game 🥚

I was working from home last week and needed just 10 minutes of uninterrupted time. My toddler was just not on the same page, I needed to figure something out quickly. I scanned the kitchen for inspiration and landed on… a carton with a few cracked egg shells.

Not whole eggs—just the shells I’d saved from previous meals. (I have a habit of cracking them and putting the shells back into the carton instead of tossing them right away—do you do this?)

Something told me she’d love the chaos of smashing them. And I was right.

What You’ll Need:

A medium-depth bin or bucket (Dollar Tree FTW)
A wooden drink muddler (or any safe smashing tool: baby rolling pin, wooden spoon, etc.)
4–6 halved egg shells (let them dry out if you can)

I lined the shells up in the bottom of the bin, handed her the muddler, showed her how to tap and press on them, and let her do her thing.

The result?

10 solid minutes of joyful destruction
Followed by 5 more of crunching the already-smashed pieces
No mess beyond the bin
And finally—15 glorious minutes for me to wrap up my work

She knows not to eat eggshells (we cook with eggs often), so I was able to let her play at the dining table while I worked just a few feet away at my desk. Still supervised, just not micromanaged.