I've written a story using just six sentences about the topic bread which I am linking up to Six Sentence Stories - Bread. If you click the link, you will be able to see what stories others have shared on this subject.
It needed to be in a dark warm place for a few days. She thought about some possible locations. Having it fully visible most likely would make someone upset. Grabbing an old piece, she sprinkled a few drops of water on it, wrapped it lightly with some waxed paper, and placed it among some items in a deep kitchen drawer.
A few days later, her mom detected a horrible smell as she opened the drawer and began shuffling some things around. "Why did you have to put you bread mold experiment in the bread drawer?" her mom said.
Kids do the darnedest things. I can see this happening so easily. Nice way to run with the word cue
ReplyDeleteI agree they do and it did.
DeleteThis brought back memories of my daughter doing a mold experiment for an elementary school science project which resulted in little dishes of furry food in a variety of locations around our house. It was educational... and smelly! Thank you for once again taking me down memory lane with your tale! :-) My story inspirations often come in the middle of the night too!
ReplyDeleteFunny! I just did the one piece of bread hidden away in the drawer.
DeleteYou had a kid do this huh??? Its sounding too real not to be true!!!
ReplyDeleteIt was very true, but if I tried to blame this on one of our kids, I'd not be telling the truth. This simple science experiment was my own. Well, actually I think all the kids in the classroom did the same experiment, but perhaps didn't let the bread mold in the bread drawer. HaHa
Delete(smiled) how is it, that certain stories, such as this one, can elicit memories long buried. And, oddly enough, it's not a memory of mold experiments, rate it's the memory of the bread drawer in the house where I spent the 3 to 6 year old years. I remember the linoleum floor being green and the metal edge to the counter top and, the drawer itself was extra deep and had a metal handle.
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Yeah, I think our linoleum floor was a kind of grey speckled design. We may have had a metal handle on our bread drawer as well. That is a little vague to me. These blog hops do have a way of bringing back old memories.
DeleteAh ha! I've done this experiment with my preschoolers. It's funny how preservative skew the results. I really liked this story, I didn't see the ending coming. White bread does get a bad rap these days, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteYes, there is a huge difference between the breads which have all the preservatives in them, and of course all those little packages of snacks that children love could probably be stored for a long time without any noticeable mold.
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