Penguin ideas

Bekah and I had so much fun with penguin week. We finished up and are now getting into a week of polar bear projects. I'll start posting our polar bear adventures tomorrow, but wanted to finish up on the penguin posts I didn't get to. Here are some simple, yet fun ideas to do for a penguin lesson:

*Roll and Color Penguin - This is a fun little game. Bekah would roll the dice and add up the dots. She would then color in the number that was rolled.


*Make a penguin book. I actually got this idea from Mailbox Magazine. However, all you would need would be some cute penguin coloring pages, have your child color them (and add glitter, if you're brave!), then staple them together to make a book.


*Tracing penguins.

Macaroni Penguin

To continue our week on penguins we made a macaroni penguin mask. I'd been trying to get Bekah to make this mask all week, but she DID NOT want to trace her hand for the penguins feathers. Finally, what I did was trace a hand print she had made in church to use for his feathers. It was a perfect compromise and we had a blast putting this together.
The idea came from Making Learning Fun. They had a ton of great penguin ideas!

We used the pattern to trace onto white, black, and orange construction paper.

We used her hand print to make the orange feathers and glued that on the top of the penguin mask.


Then, I added two Popsicle sticks for Bekah to hold onto and we pretended to be macaroni penguins.


We also had fun singing the song that goes with this:

(Sung to the tune of Are You Sleeping)
Macaroni, Macaroni,
Penguin, Penguin,
You have orange feathers, You have orange feathers,
On your head, On your head.

Penguin Fish Cracker Count

Bekah and I have been discovering all about penguins this week. One of her favorite activities was this Fish Cracker Count game that I printed off from Making Learning Fun.

After laminating all the penguins, I gave her a bowl of goldfish crackers and showed her how to put the correct number of fish on each penguin.


I wasn't sure if she would stick with this, but she loved it!

We were even able to talk about subtraction when she would eat a goldfish cracker off of a penguin. It was such a fun learning tool.

More penguin activities to come!