A few weeks ago, we checked out a book of Mother Goose nursery rhymes from the library. Delaney was really interested in reading and reciting them, so I thought I would use them as a jumping-off point in our school work. She is loving it! Even Natalie has been joining in for many of the activities – she couldn’t resist!
First up – Humpty Dumpty!
Coloring Page (from the Dover Mother Goose Coloring Book
Art Project (from Kansas City Public Library)
Humpty Dumpty Dice Game (from SugarDoodle)
Word Family Coloring Page (PDF from Carl’s Corner)
Coloring egg patterns
Sorting toy animals by egg-laying/non-egg-laying
Writing: How do you like to eat eggs?
Experiment: What will an egg do in fresh water and salt water? (Our salt water solution was approx. 1 cup of water and 6 tablespoons of salt.) The girls were totally amazed by the floating egg!
Other fun things we did:
- Puzzles
- Egg & spoon races (and egg & spoon follow-the-leader)
- Cooking scrambled eggs
- Dancing with egg shakers – I filled plastic eggs with rice and hot-glued them shut. Our favorite song to use them with is “I Know a Chicken” by Laurie Berkner
- Egg hunt! I pulled out the plastic eggs and Easter baskets (so fun in the off-season!) and hid eggs filled with coins. After finding their eggs they sorted and counted their coins.
We read:
We had so much fun with Humpty Dumpty!
Up next – Jack and Jill….
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This is great! So creative and looks like a lot of fun. *Ü*
So many fun activities related to your theme. I like the idea of having a theme and then finding resources to suit the theme. Experiments are always interesting and it’s fun to make predictions and then see what the results show.
wow! who’d have thought you could do so much with humpty dumpty! love the egg patterns and animal sorts–that’s amazing!
I love the animal sort idea. I’ll have to try something like that sometime.
Another great resource that would tie in with your eggs theme is “Eggs, Eggs Everywhere.” It’s a GEMS unit put out by the Lawrence Hall of Science. It inlcudes TONS of great hands-on egg activities. Here’s a link to it: http://lhsgems.org/GEMSeggs.html
BTW, I’m a KC girl, so I love the fact that one of your activites is from the KC public library.
I really love those activities. We do a lot of lapbooking here. Thanks for sharing those great ideas.
Love these ideas! I’ll be using your “egg” resources and books when we do “E” as our letter of the week. Thanks for sharing! Love your new homeschool blog too.