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

P is for Penguin - Fun Penguin Math

We are currently exploring P is for Penguin. Who doesn't love those adorable, wobbly, flightless birds! We sure do!

Books:





Activity:
We did a fun math related activity to reinforce number recognition, number word recognition , counting and numeral writing for 1 thru 10.

Here's what you'll need:
1. Penguin Shapes - I bought a cute Penguin notepad at the Teacher Store to use during this theme. It was perfect for this activity. I took 10 penguin pages and numbered them from 1 thru 10 with both the numbers and number words
2. Goldfish Crackers
3. Number cards - for tracing

Here's What We Did:

1. I gave each lil Diva some goldfish and a stack of cards for tracing/writing numers 1 thru 10. The penguin pages were mixed up and stacked in between them.

2. The Lil Divas took turns turning over a penguin then identifying the numberand counting out the correct number of goldfish.



3. Each Lil Diva then had to find the correct number tracing card and practiced writing the number chosen.



4. After we went through all the mixed-up penguins we arranged them in order from 1-10!



There was lots of snacking along the way and tons of fun being had! It was a great activity!


Bern