Humpty Dumpty's Fate

As part of our Nursery Rhyme topic we looked at Humpty Dumpty and had to make an hypothesis (we learnt this was a fancy science name for guess) as to how tall we could build a wall and let him fall off before he broke.

We used hard boiled eggs for Humpty and made walls using duplo blocks, large plastic blocks and wooden blocks.

Poor Humpty did not survive any blocks high without breaking, so our answer to our hypothesis was 0.  However we then wanted to see how high we could take Humpty Dumpty on our walls till his guts came out, this was great fun!

Poor Humpty Dumpty!


Next we went to the grass and the sandpit and repeated our experiment.  We discovered that sand was the best landing and Humpty Dumpty could survive Miss Shine dropping him but not Mrs Douglas.