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- noun Plural form of
colored egg . Hard boiled eggs used for children's entertainment on or aboutEaster morning.
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treeseed commented on the word colored eggs
One person is the "fox". One is the "mother hen". The other "eggs" line up next to each other, with the fox facing them. The mother hen whispers a color into the ear of each egg. The fox then says..."knock-knock", the line answers "who's there?". Fox replies "a hungry fox".
The line says.."what do you want?" Fox answers "colored eggs". The line yells "what color?". The fox then says a color. Whoever is that color then runs around a selected area (to the far oak tree in the yard and back to the mother hen, for example), with the fox giving chase.
If the wolf catches the "egg", then that person joins the fox's team or sits out, depending on how the kids want to play it.
January 28, 2008