Humpty Dumpty through the Eyes of 7th Graders
Why did Humpty Dumpty fall off the wall?
He fell off the wall because his yoke was leaning to one side.
He fell because he is round.
He was trying to get down.
He saw the Beatles and was so amazed that he lost his balance and fell off the wall.
Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall because a cat jumped up and scared him.
He was scared when the horses were running.
He was attacked by a hoard of squirrels.
The wind blew him off.
A meteor fell behind him and he was scared so he jumped off.
He wasn’t paying attention.
He lost his balance from the wind.
He fell from the wall because he probably got distracted by all of the king’s soldiers.
He slipped and is clumsy like butter.
Someone pushed him!
Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall because he couldn’t keep his balance.
He leaned back and flipped off the wall.
He was scared by a black cat.
Suggest ways that the king’s soldiers could have put Humpty Dumpty together again.
They would use lots and lots of glue. (They had horses!)
Tape super glue plaster Gorilla Glue
Glue Duck tape They could weld him together with an eggshell welder.
Tie a rope around him medical tape Neosporin
Gum monkey glue magic wand
Mud nails They could make a wire frame and put the pieces in it.
Staple syrup Plastic surgery
Hot glue magician velcro
Honey double sided tape screws
Band-Aids cement play dough
Stick tack stitches fairy dust
What could you do with a broken Humpty Dumpty?
Use him for decorations make him into a jigsaw puzzle
Make confetti with his shell put him in the compost pile
Throw him in the trash make scrambled eggs
Stare at him make a cake
Cook and eat him egg sandwich
Omelet make an egg and sausage burrito
Feed him to my cat or dog feed the poor
Show him to children so they will stay safe.
Run a bed and breakfast for a month. Give him to IHop and they could use him.
Bury him Have a crime scene to see how it happened.
Do an autopsy. Make a Humpty puzzle for lonely children.
We could feed him to a dragon in the dungeon. Feed him to pigs.
Humpty could teach safety classes. Reflect rainbows off his broken pieces
How would this story be different if Humpty Dumpty had been sitting on a bridge?
He would die if he didn’t know how to swim.
He would have fallen into the water and floated downstream.
The fish would eat him.
The king’s soldiers would have rescued him.
If he fell into the river, no one would have found him.
He would have fallen in the water and most likely swam to shore.
