along with a real egg laying hen in our classroom, we also spent time with good old humpty dumpty.  i read from this book every week and love the photos to accompany these olden time rhymes:

we did a few different projects to represent good old humpty.  one involved real egg shells, so guess what we made for snack!

then everyone got one egg shell to crack and glue the pieces within an oval drawn on paper.

oh, poor old humpty dumpty.

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we also made 3D humpty dumpty friends.

we used kleenex and two pieces of egg shaped paper glued together the day before.

one side had the glad face (for when he first sat on the wall) and the other side had the sad face (for after his fall).

(and some humpty dumpty friends had freckles)

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we also made eggs out of crumpled up paper and masking tape.  wow, did we ever use our whole hand muscles!  the sneaky thing about these is that hidden inside is a ball of golden yellow playdough acting as yolk!  hee hee hee.

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and no matter the prop, we could act out our poem:

humpty dumpty sat on a wall:

humpty dumpty had a great fall:

all the kings horses and all the kings men (running hands on legs):

couldn’t put humpty together again (quick-find the sad face side and give him a hug).

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and always, always, i offer the father gander version too:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the horses, women, and men
Put Humpty Dumpty together again.

one class changed it even more to suggest a child’s ability being all that was needed:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All of the children and none of the men
Put Humpty Dumpty together again.

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but maybe my favorite part was their own “readings” of the poem: