Object: Bread crumbs

Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you are good eaters? (Let them answer.) Do a lot of you belong to the clean plate club? (Let them answer.) If I came to your house and ate dinner with you, would I find anything left on your plate? (Direct your question to a clean plate club member.) You mean that I would not find even a crumb of food left somewhere around where you eat? (Let them answer.) Not many of us eat all of the crumbs. When your mother cleans up the table after each meal, she usually must take a cloth and wipe off all the crumbs that are left behind. Crumbs, bread crumbs are something that we hardly even see. A long time ago mothers and daughters would clean up the dinner table by sweeping all of the bread crumbs onto the floor. Then the dogs would e…