Penguin Crafts, Recipes and Learning {The Sunday Showcase 1/25/14}

Kids always enjoy learning about penguins. They are such interesting birds.
These penguin recipes and  activities offer such great ways to learn about these polar animals.

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Nutter Butter Penguins (Enchanted Homeschooling Mom)

Penguin Pizza (Educator's Spin On It)

So many great Penguin Themed Recipes & Activities to inspire you!

Here are a few from us - 

Blotto Paint Penguin (Mom to 2 Posh lil Divas)

Footprint Penguin (Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas)

 Penguin Math (Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas)

Looking for more penguin ideas?

Check out our Penguin Ideas Pinterest Board

Don't forget to peruse all of our Pinterest Boards.

They are filled with awesome kid friendly ideas from around the web.

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Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
Here Come the Girls

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Kid Art: Blotto Paint Penguins

As part of our recent Arctic Theme in Preschool we had fun exploring penguins. The children enjoyed  fun mix of activities, art, crafts and play which helped them learn about arctic animals.

I have to share one of my favorite art activities with you all because they turned out awesome and were so easy to make!

Blotto Paint Penguins

Isn't he cute?

Don't you want to make one?

It's super easy, requires little prep and only a few materials.

To make your own Blotto Penguin Art you will need:

colored paper (construction paper or card stock will work)

black, orange and black paint

wiggly eyes

beak cut-outs (orange construction paper triangles)

glue

squeeze bottles (optional*)

*I used squeeze bottles because we have large gallon jugs of paint

Here's a super simple "How To":

1. Fold your colored (base) paper in half.

2. Let child squeeze black, white and orange paint onto paper.

Encourage them to aim for the middle of the paper but keep to one side.

You don't need a lot of paint. A little goes a long way with this blotto art.

3. Close paper and press/spread with hands.

4. Open to reveal your unique blotto penguin art.

5. Add eyes and beak with glue and let dry before displaying.

I loved having these little guys on display. They reminded me of Happy Feet and made me smile every time I looked at them.

We read some great penguin books too. 

Here are a few of our favorites:

  

For even more penguin ideas check out my Penguin Ideas Pinterest Board.

Have fun blotto painting some penguins!
Bern

Waddle, Slide & Don't Drop that Egg! More Penguin Games & Fun

Penguin Egg Walk:
I was inspired after watching Happy Feet to try this with the girls. This was so much FUN! I took a large white sock (my husbands) and filled it with a few other socks to make a sizeable egg shape. The girls had to walk around the room carrying their eggs between their legs like Emperor Penguin Daddies do! It was hilarious! :)

Our "sock" penguin eggs!


The Lil Divas carrying their eggs like Daddy Penguins

Penguin Waddle & Slide:
More penguin fun! Since we talked a great deal about how penguins slide on their bellies - I just knew the girls would love to try it! So out came the sofa cushions for some belly sliding fun! The girls had to waddle on up to the mountain and then slide down on their bellies! If I thought I wouldn't have hurt myself - I would have tried it too! lol!

Soon this.......



turned into this.....


but it was great fun! :)

How Tall is the Penguin?
Great Penguin Measuring printable from Moo Moo's & TuTu's Blog. The girls measured the diffrent penguins using snowball cut outs. I provided them with number stickers to stick under the penguin afetr they determined how many snowballs tall it was.  BTW, the link is for an entire penguin unit - FREE & full of great ideas! Thanks to Daphne for sharing such a great resource.

Hope you enjoyed our Penguin Theme! On to celebrating Dr. Seuss & some of our fave books! :)

Bern

Igloos, Penguins & Happy Feet, Oh My!

Finished up our fun Penguin Week!

I have a few more activities to post/share. 

Penguin & Igloo lacing cards - got these from Oriental Trading (pack of 12 winter themed cards) and love them! They are even on sale right now for $4.99! Can be used with so many themes or just for fun.

Craft : Building Igloos

I must warn you this was more of a fail than a success but it was so much fun I decided to share anyway! We used ice and vanilla frosting to build our igloos! We didn't get very far bc the girls were too busy sucking ice and eating frosting so the ice was melting and slippery and our igloo wouldn't stick! :)

It turned into an icy playtime which was fine - we talked about how the penguins slide on the ice and how cold it is! I just went with what we had going on and turned it into a teachable moment! :)

That's as far as our igloo got! Notice the frosting on her lips! :)

To finish off our theme we had a penguin themes movie night last night!

Movie Night: Happy Feet

The girls had seen it before but after all our penguin activities and books this week - it really made them pay attention to things more. We were naming the different kinds of penguins and really noticing lots that we had learned in the movie! It was a great Movie Night! I am going to try and do this more with our themes from now on if possible! It was a fun way to end things & it really showcased how much we had learned about penguins.

I have 1 more post to finish up w/some fun games and then we are oficially done!

Next theme - Dr. Seuss Week! This is going to be fun! :)

Colorful Footprint Penguins = Tickly, Messy FUN!

Books:

Activities: my camera battery died :( while we were working on the games so I ahve no pics of the games.  I have provided links for what we did as they were easy and fun penguin themed color games! I'll try and get pics and add them to the post.

1. Penguin Bow Tie Match Game - I found a cute Penguin Color Word Game via Making Learning Fun 

2. Roll and Color Dice Addition - Penguin Roll and Color Dice Game also came from Making Learning Fun

3. Colorful Footprint Penguins - In honor of PINK! the Lil Divas made colorful footprint penguins! What tickly, messy fun we had! There were definitely lots of Lil Diva giggles during this craft! :)

BTW, the pics taken during the feet painting was done by the Lil Divas themselves as I was busy painting little feet! I think they did a good job! :)

Here's What You'll Need:

1. Paint (whatever colors you want to use) - we used washable fingerpaint & it worked great & came right off with a wet washcloth

2. Paintbrushes - I used 1 for each color

3. Construction paper - for background

Here's What to Do:

1. Paint inner foot white - this will be the penguin's belly and face

2. Paint outer edge in desired color - for rest of the penguin's body 

3. Paint Big Toe Orange - this will be one foot 

4. Paint 3rd & 4th Toes Orange - this will be the 2nd foot 

5. Press Footprint onto Paper 

6. Paint thumb same color as body and apply to each side of the penguin's body - this will be the wings 

This is an example of what the painted footprint penguin will look like at this point

7. To finish the penguin add wiggly or paper eyes and an orange triangle cut out for the bill - you can also use markers and color them on

The Littlest Diva (3 yrs. old) wrote in the letter P's in the saying "P is for penguin" 

The Oldest Diva (5yrs. old) wrote it on her own with me spelling the words for her orally 

I just LOVE footprint & handprint crafts! Don't you?

Their feet won't always be this little and it's such a cute momento to save for later!

Enjoy,
Bern

P is for Penguin - Craft Time Fun

Today the Lil Divas practiced writing the letter Pp and put together a penguin from pieces I had cut out for them. It was fun to watch them fugure out where and how everything went together - like a puzzle!

Books:

Activities:

1. Do-A-Dot Letter P -  I got the Do-A-Dot P page from Confessions of a Homeschooler (we actually did this yesterday but I forgot to include it in the post so am adding it here)

2. Penguin Sticker P - the girls really enjoyed making the letter P using penguin stickers. It was cute and fun for them.

2. P is for Penguin Pp Writing Practice -  Pp Tracer Page courtesy of First School

3. Penguin Craft - I cut out the pieces and let the girls assemple the penguin (like a puzzle) and then glue it all together.

If you have any fun Penguin crafts or ideas be sure to share!

Enjoy,

Bern