to leave a trail so they can find their way back home
Hansel and Gretel dropped food crumbs to create a trail that would help them find their way back home after being taken Into the Woods by their stepmother.
The inciting incident in "Hansel and Gretel" is when the children's stepmother convinces their father to abandon them in the woods because of a lack of food. This sets off the chain of events that leads Hansel and Gretel to discover the witch's house and their subsequent struggle to escape.
The exposition of "Hansel and Gretel" introduces the siblings, Hansel and Gretel, who are left in the forest by their parents because of a famine. They come across a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch who lures them in with the promise of food and shelter.
Problem: Hansel and Gretel are lost in the forest and unable to find their way back home after being led astray by a wicked witch. Solution: Hansel and Gretel outsmart the witch by tricking her into the oven and escaping back to safety with the help of breadcrumbs they initially left behind to find their way.
Hansel and Gretel, by the Brothers Grimm.
White flour and butter and eggs.
Hansel and Gretel is a German fairy tale where two siblings are abandoned in the woods by their parents and come across a witch's house made of sweets. The witch captures them, but they outsmart her and escape, finding their way back home with the help of pebbles and breadcrumbs.
Panko Bread crumbs, Bread crumbs, crushed corn flakes
It takes food crumbs cause after awhile crumbs would start piling up
dead leaves,dried leaves,food crumbs
They eat bread crumbs, and gold fish food
There are probably food crumbs in there!
Food crumbs on the ground and other bugs.