With Spring and Easter on the horizon, I’ve been thinking about eggs and when one of our linkups last week shared a fun plastic egg activity, I thought it might be the perfect week to do a roundup of one of my all-time favourite egg-related nursery rhymes: Humpty Dumpty!
Today you will find language, science, play, arts and crafts – all related to our favourite little eggy man!
Humpty Dumpty Language
Make this simple but hilarious Humpty Dumpty Rhyming Book with your kids to help develop early reading, writing and phonological skills.
Find another Humpty Dumpty Book/craft with a falling Humpty.
Make this simple fun foam Humpty Dumpty Word Puzzle.
Help your kids learn their colours – while listening to this entertaining rhyming twist on Humpty Dumpty from Teaching Mama.
Get your FREE printable Letter H Book which includes Humpty Dumpty, Hickory Dickory Dock and other rhymes .
Read their tips for getting kids ready for Kindergarten, then print out their Humpty Dumpty printable worksheets at Storytime Standouts.
Read this review of a free Nursery Rhymes App that includes an interactive Humpty Dumpty game.
Humpty Dumpty Science
Try these 6 awesome Humpty Dumpty Egg-Speriments including getting Humpty naked, helping him swim, making him squishy, and testing his shell strength!
Got plastic eggs? Make this What’s in the Egg? sound auditory sensory activity.
See what kind of forces Humpty can withstand following this fun Humpty Science activity (with a free observation printable.)
Try some fun Egg-Gravity Experiments.
Humpty Dumpty Play
Learn how to make an adorable Stuffed Humpty Dumpty doll and add another comforting verse to this classic rhyme.
Have the kids investigate how or whether Humpty Dumpty could sit on a wall in a hands-on way. Tons of critical thinking and fun play over at Time for Play.
Play some Nursery Rhyme Bingo with this FREE printable cards pack.
Humpty Dumpty Arts and Crafts
Make adorable Blown Egg Humpties (see below).
How about making a Paper Plate Humpty Puppet.
Decorating Easter Eggs (and Humpty!)
Make a Humpty Dumpty Eggshell Collage.
Grab some bandaids and let your kids help put Humpty back together again with these adorable Humpty Dumpty Egg Puzzles.
That’s it for this week! I hope you have found some inspiration for a nursery rhyme unit, or for some fun Humpty exploration at home!
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What fun ideas to go along with Humpty Dumpty! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Thanks for dropping by Katie!
What a fun round-up!!
Thanks for dropping by Viviana!
So many fun ideas! Every time my daughter wants to sit on a wall, she talks about Humpty Dumpty. We’ll have to try a bunch of these.
Too funny Anne! Thanks for dropping by!