Materials
Lemons and limes
Sharp knife (adult only)
Paper and pen
Hand-held juicer
Rebus lemonade recipe cards
Pitcher and mixing spoon
3 cups (720 ml) lemon or lime juice
2 cups (500 g) sugar
4 cups (960 ml) water
2 cups ice
1/2 cup (120 ml) cranberry juice
Cups
Large appliance box
Paint and brushes, construction paper, string, and tape
Cash box and play coins
Instructions
1. Read "Humpty Dumpty" to the children and show them his picture.
2. Discuss the story. Ask the children what kind of creature Humpty Dumpty is.
If they guess that he is an egg, ask them what happens to an egg if it falls.
Discuss what happens, and proceed with the next step. If they cannot guess
what he is, give them a clue.
3. Place a baking pan on the floor. Hold an egg high above the pan.
4. Ask the children to count backwards with you from five to zero. When you
get to zero, drop the egg into the pan. Discuss the results. Ask them if there is
a way to put the egg back together again.
5. Read Little Lumpty to the children.
6. Discuss the story, and ask what lesson Little Lumpty learned.
More to do
Art: Measure across the top edge of your bulletin board to find out its length.
Starting at the upper left corner, measure across one third of the length and make
a small mark. From the bottom left corner, draw a line up to meet the mark, creating
a triangle. Cut out a triangular piece of blue bulletin board paper to fit it
into the space. This will be the sky. Cover the remainder of the bulletin board
with green paper, for the earth. Measure the edge where the sky meets the earth.
Cut a piece of white or red bulletin board paper this length and 6" wide.
Decorate this paper to look like a wall. (Adjust these measurements to be in proportion
with your board.) Place the wall along the sky/earth line. Provide the children
with a variety of papers, scissors, markers and glue sticks. Give the children
3" squares of construction paper and 3" x 4" rectangles of construction paper
and have them add roofs, windows, and doors to create the houses of the town
of Dumpty. Have the children use the art supplies to make the egg people who
live in Dumpty. Let the children glue their houses and egg people to the bulletin
board. Have one child make a Lumpty egg and glue him atop the wall. Let the
children continue to add items to the town over the next few days. Encourage
their creativity.
Language: Write the words to the "Egg Song" (see below) on a chart. Point to the
words as you and the children sing the song. Sing the song several times each
day for a week. Leave the chart where the children can use it independently and
soon they will be "reading" the chart and singing the words.
Math: Cut out nine 4" x 8" (10 cm x 20 cm) rectangles from poster board. With
a marker, decorate each rectangle to look like a wall. Using the numbers 0 - 8,
write one number on each "wall." Cut out 36 egg shapes from 2 1/2 " x 1 3/4 " (6 cm
x 4 cm) poster board. To play the game, ask a child to spread out the walls and
count the correct number of eggs to put onto each wall. Store all the game
pieces in a large, plastic zipper big.
Snack/Math: For this activity, you will need scrambled eggs, hard-cooked eggs
cut into slices, paper plates, plastic forks or spoons, and paper egg shapes to one
for each child. Write each child's name on one paper egg shape. Create a chart
with the heading, "I Like My Eggs." Divide the chart in half vertically below the
heading. Label one side "Scrambled" and the other side "Hard-Cooked." At
snack time, serve each child a tablespoon of scrambled egg and a slice of hardboiled
egg. (Provide water, juice, or milk for a drink.) After the children have
finished their snacks, ask each child to glue his paper egg on the chart in the
column that shows which kind of egg he liked best. Which kind of egg has the
most? Which kind has the least?