Humpty Dumpty

A tactile craft! Your kids will get to put Humpty Dumpty together again! Show them they can do better than ALL the king's horses and ALL the king's men! (But that isn't really fair, because just how much use is a horse in this situation anyway? Not like they have opposable digits or fine motor movements. Sheesh. Probably could have put Humpty back together before the horses tried to help!)


















The Rhyme:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.


Age: 2 & up
Difficulty rating: 2 out of 5
Messiness rating: moderate potential
Time: 10 minutes

Supplies:
construction paper: white, red, blue, green, black
scissors
crayons
googly eyes
tactiles, such as rice, corn meal, crushed egg shells (not too small), etc.
yarn
pencil

The Craft:

1. Cut out bricks, about 1" x 3". Depending on the size of your paper, you might need more or less. I made 8.
   
2. Cut an oval, for Humpty.
   
3. Take the oval and lay it on a piece of green paper. Trace the bottom 1/3 of the oval in pencil, and draw a straight line across the top.
   
4. From this 1/3 oval, draw two rectangles off the bottom. These will be his pants.
   
5. Cut a thin strip (about 1/2 inch thick and twice the width of your oval) of white. This will be his arms.
   
6. Cut an oval in black, then cut that in half. These are his shoes.
   
7. Cut two mitten shapes for gloves.
   
8. Now that all the shapes are cut out, have your child glue the bricks on the blue background.
   
9. Glue Humpty sitting on the wall.
   
10. Glue on the arms (I glued them about 1/3 up from the bottom, at the top of his pants. The strip of arms goes under his pants.
11. Only glue the arms on the "body" of the egg. Fold up what extends beyond the egg outline. I folded once at the "body" and once for the elbow.
    
12. Glue on pants--just to the bottom of the oval.
13. Fold the pants to show the knees.
    
14. Glue the shoes on the pants.
    
15. Glue on googly eyes, yarn mouth and nose (we drew ours on)
16. Lay glue down as the "mortar" between the bricks and let the kids sprinkle sugar on it. The rough texture will represent the roughness of the brick wall.
    
17. Glue egg shell pieces to the oval. The pieces should be small, but not too small. (I skipped this step because I did not have any eggs.)
18. Apply glue over the bricks and sprinkle corn meal or something rough to give a gritty texture.
    
19. Let dry. You now have a 3-D textile Humpty Dumpty poster.