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Hello.
Hello.
We've made some Easter cards and they're all egg shaped.
Like these.
I've drawn some patterns on the outsides and look, this one's got a chicken side.
I've cut out an egg shape and I'm going to use it to make another Easter card.
I need this and I'll fold it in half.
Now I can use my shape to draw around, but I must make sure that it overlaps on the fold,
like this.
Now I can draw around it.
And I'll cut it out.
There.
I think I'll decorate my card with some shapes.
I cut them out of some colored wrapping paper.
I've just made another Easter card.
Can you see what's inside it?
No?
Well, just wait till I put some paint on.
There.
It's a message.
Happy Easter.
I wrote the message with this crayon.
It's a white one and I can use the crayon to draw a pattern on the front of my card.
You can't see the pattern now, can you?
But if I put some paint over it, you can see my pattern.
This crayon's made of wax and did you know that wax can melt if it gets very hot?
I've got a friend who comes from a country where they decorate real eggs for Easter and
they use melted wax to make their patterns.
This is a real egg, but there isn't a chick inside it.
A pattern is going to be drawn on the egg in wax.
When she needs some more wax on her pen, she warms a pen nib in a candle flame.
Do you see?
It's melting the wax.
And now she can draw with the melted wax.
It takes a long time to draw, but when the first pattern is finished, the egg is ready
to go into this yellow dye.
The egg is turning yellow in the dye, except for the wax pattern she's drawn.
The dye can't get through wax.
Now it's ready for another pattern.
Draw on the pen nib first very carefully.
Dip it in the wax and draw on the egg.
Then it goes into an orange dye.
She'll go on drawing more patterns and coloring the egg until it's finished.
Watch.
Now she melts off all the wax, and you'll see the different patterns she's made.
Let's enjoy.
Well I think that's beautiful. Can I take it to Shojin?
Oh yes. Thank you.
For hundreds of years people have been making eggs and decorating eggs for Easter.
Let's look at some more.
I've got a bar of chocolate. It's a funny shape isn't it? That's because it got
warm inside my pocket and it started to melt. Here's some chocolate that's melted
and it's all runny. If I left it in this case to go cold again it will go all
hard like this. This chocolate's gone all hard.
What's this? Yes it's a chocolate Easter egg. Let's watch one being made. The
chocolate has to be melted first so it's tipped into a hot saucepan. Give it a
stir and it's soon all runny. This is a mold. We need it to make the egg. It's
just two plastic shapes that fit together and they have to be polished
until they shine so that the chocolate will shine. Thank you Jean.
Next he has to tap the mold to make the air come out. Can you see the air bubbles?
He's got to get rid of them because they would make the egg all bumpy instead of
smooth. Spread the chocolate evenly all over the mold and pour back any that's
left over.
There's one half of our egg. Now we've got to make the other half.
When both molds are ready they can go into the fridge. The chocolate will get
cold again and stay in its new shape. There's another mold in here. Shall I take
it out? Yes please Jean. Thank you. He's going to listen to the chocolate. See if
you can hear anything. Did you hear that snap? That means the chocolate is ready
to come out of the mold. See the chocolate's hard now and it's an egg
shape. And here's the other half.
Look how smooth it is and we can put some sweets in the egg. Squeeze on some
more chocolate and the two halves are joined together.
I'd like to give the egg to Stephen for Easter. Could you put his name on it for
me? Yes I'll write it in Iceland.
Most people have chocolate eggs at Easter but sometimes they give each
other real eggs like the one you saw being decorated and they play games with
them too. We've got a story about some children who played egg games with hard
boiled eggs. There was once a village which stood at the foot of a hill. Every
Easter the children of the village used to climb to the top of the hill each
carrying an egg. When they got to the top they rolled their eggs over and over all
the way down again to see whose egg would roll the furthest. Then they used
to tap their eggs together and the one whose egg didn't break was the winner.
There was one boy in the village who was very poor. All he had was an old bamboo
pipe which he would sit playing in the marketplace. The other children took no
notice of him because he never played with them. He wanted to join in their
games but he didn't have any money to buy an egg to play with. One day an old
man came wheeling a barrow into the marketplace. He had all kinds of food to
sell vegetables, fish, meat, cheese and an old white hen. Come and buy, come and
buy he said and very soon he had sold most of the things on his barrow.
Except for the old white hen. Please buy me and look after me she said to the boy.
She looked so sad he felt sorry for her. I'd like to buy you he said but I
haven't got any money. Then he had an idea. He asked the old man if he could
swap his bamboo pipe for the hen. A pipe for an old hen? The old man laughed.
That's a good swap. Then just as the boy picked up the hen to carry her home he
saw underneath her a beautiful large white egg. The egg is yours too said the
hen. It has a very hard shell it will roll further than any other egg and it
will never break. And so the boy looked after the hen. Every Easter he played
egg games with the other children and he always won.
Jean here's your Easter egg. Oh it's lovely thank you. Well I knew you liked
chocolate Stephen so I got an Easter egg for you. That's a smashing one. I hope you
get some Easter eggs but don't eat them all at once. Goodbye. Goodbye.
And all the people of the town then the lamb felt very happy. He felt as happy
as he'd felt in the sunshine on the hill. He felt happy just to be alive just
to be among friends who fed him pieces of bread roll. And he skipped and danced
for sheer joy round and round and through the town to the steps of the
church where he almost tied knots of ribbon around the boy who was leading
him. They stopped at the steps of the church.
The boy picked up the lamb and held him. He looked back at the crowd who were
laughing at them and loving them. And as he stood there he felt the lamb's
happiness and he felt the happiness of the people all around and he felt how
good it was to be alive in the new spring sunshine. Now that life had come
back to the world again on Easter day.
Then holding the Easter lamb gently in his arms the ragged boy led the
procession into the church.