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The Clown Doctors: Humpty Dumpty

Song type: Active, Calm, Rhymes
Language: English
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Baby, Children, Pre-school, Toddler
Topics: Bookbug

How to use this rhyme with babies

Sit your baby on your knee facing you. Bounce them gently and for the great fall, gently tip your baby backwards. Just make sure you support their head and neck.

How to use this rhyme with toddlers

Put a teddy or Humpty Dumpty puppet on lycra or a piece of fabric like a pillowcase, and gently bounce him up and down. You can also throw Humpty in the air so he falls down onto the lycra.

How to share this song with 3 to 5-year-olds

Stand up and clap hands to the first half of the rhyme. When it’s time to fall, touch the floor. Then jump up and march on the spot. You could do this round in a circle too.

Humpty Dumpty lyrics

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,

Couldn’t put Humpty together again!