Object: A broken rubber band. (Have enough to pass out, but they should all be broken).

Good morning, boys and girls. How are you today? Do you know what we call this that I have in my hand? A rubber band, that’s right - almost. It’s a broken rubber band. (Up to now you have held the rubber band so that the children coud not see that it was broken - but now show them). I have a whole bunch of broken rubber bands and I’m going to give each of you one of them. I’ll bet you never thought that you’d get a broken rubber band for a gift, did you? Do you know how that happened? I wanted to see where the weakest point was in every band and so I held it like this and pu…