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I just got my hands a few days ago on a nice egg bag and a mash bag.
And I thought about combining it in one of the routines I do in my kids show.

So, my original routine goes like this:

I invite the birthday boy/girl and say that we are going to bake a birthday cake, I put a chef hat on him and then I give him a giant book with the name "the big book of cooking" (in Hebrew obviously), and in it a printed recipe.
So I take out a dove pan and ask the kid to read the recipe. The first line is "one hat of flower", the kids laugh, then I take the hat off the kid's head and pull a sack of flower out of it, some jokes with rude noises and flower sprays, and to the next line:
"One invisible egg". Then I use a ball holder I have to produce a plastic egg, and then vanish it and pretend to break it into the pan.
Then "a fist of sugar" (with a TT), and "a paper cone full of milk" (with a mini milk pitcher), light it to fire, and *hop* there's a cake.

So, when I got the bags I couldn't skip the potential they have in this routine (for the egg part of course), but the thing is, except for knowing how to use the bags to vanish and produce an egg I don't really know any full routine I can use them for, so I will be very happy if you could share your ideas on how to use them in the routine to make the egg part a bit longer and more interesting (or even more importantly, funny for the kids).


Thanks in advance.

Does the egg bag hold more than one egg? If so, use the pockets to put other things in, so you can bring them out before the egg. Maybe one of them can be a golf ball, which you try and crack open, before you realise what it is. Do you have chocolate eggs? If so, this can be used, but it might be an idea to keep it in your freezer until just before you leave home for the show.
Although the children might giggle at rude noises, it only takes one parent to not like for the word to get round. I would drop that part.

Otherwise, it sounds like you are starting to get a good routine together. You are doing what I like doing, mixing props together to make up something better.

Actually I have been doing this routine for over a year and a half, never got complains, the parents usually don't care as long as the kids look happy and laugh, it's not like the humor on TV is so much better, funny is funny, and for kids cheap humor is the best humor possible.

The chocolate egg is actually a really good idea come to think of it...
But still I'd like to pull a nice 2-3 minutes routine out of it, so it's good as a gag but still I'd like ideas for a full routine with the egg and the bags.