Enlist students to create egg-themed posters to place around the school. The posters should include images of the egg drop, either through photographs from previous egg drops or artists' depictions of what the drop could look like. In addition, encourage students to use egg-based puns. The posters can highlight the egg-citement of the event, discuss how the event will be an egg-cellent time for all, or highlight the egg-treme nature of the event.
Prizes and rewards heighten the tension of any contest, and an egg drop is no different. Discuss ideas with your students for good egg drop prizes. For larger egg drops, throw a pizza party if any of the teams can successfully drop their egg from above a certain height. A final possibility is to have the winning team throw eggs at the instructor of the class, but that requires that the teacher be a particularly good sport.
Continuing with the egg theme, set up omelet or scrambled egg stations at the egg drop. It is also easy to create egg-shaped cookies or other pastries. If that is outside of the egg drop budget, give students extra credit for bringing in egg-themed treats.
The most exciting, but also the most expensive, way to spice up any event is through spectacle. Rather than simply climbing a step ladder the egg drop, throw the devices off the school roof. Or, better yet, get a cherry picker truck and crank it up to maximum. For schools with particularly large budgets, egg drop from a helicopter!