Purpose: To help children exert some personal effort when faced with a problem.

Material: An egg. If available, a toy or live chick.

Lesson: Today I want you to look at something that I am sure you have seen before. (Show them an egg.) What comes out of this egg? ... If it is allowed to hatch, in a normal way, a chick will come out of it. And the way it comes out is to break through the shell from the inside, when the time is right. Now, if you were to see the chick trying to break out of the shel…