Thursday, January 21, 2010

stART ~ If You Were a Penguin



Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too! The linky will be open all week.

penguin

This week we read If You Were a Penguin, by Wendell and Florence Minor. Emily received a penguin stamp for Christmas an has been interested in penguins so this week while we made a very quick trip to the library (Juliette was not such a happy camper so we had to pick books and run) we found this cute penguin book. It tells about all of the things that penguins do with a fun rhyming text and beautiful illustrations.

After reading the book, a few times, Emily made a paper plate penguin to go with the book. Now our little penguin friend can read the book with us too!

Emily’s Paper Plate Penguin

I cut out the bottom of a paper plate to make the body of the penguin. I cut that piece into two small feet.

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Emily painted the outside edge of the paper plate with black paint. I drew a line to help her know where to paint.

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Next, Emily painted the two feet with orange paint.

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After all of the pieces dried Emily glued on two wiggly eyes a construction paper beak and the feet.

Paper plate penguin

Emily’s finished penguin



23 comments:

Unknown said...

I love intently Emily painted those feet...

This is so cute! I will bookmark this idea for when we are talking about birds- fun!

Debbie said...

I love how careful Emily is creating this project. She was really having fun!

The final project is so cute!

An Almost Unschooling Mom said...

That is an adorable penguin. What a creative idea!

sbswtp said...

Very cute. Ryles loves penguins...no stART for us this week...hopefully she is feeling better so we can link up next week!

Our Little Family said...

Love it!! Maddie is still fascinated with penguins and would LOVE to make this. What a great idea!!

April said...

Very cute penguin!

Anonymous said...

Florence and I are very glad that Emily likes our book, and
we think she shows real artistic talent. We love her penguin too!

We send our best, Wendell and Florence Minor

Rebecca said...

That is just too cute!! And the cover of that book is adorable too!

teachmama said...

way too cute!! We have so many penguin books over here--this would be a perfect compliment to any of them!
awesome!

Natalie PlanetSmarty said...

I just ordered this book via Scholastic book sales because it looks so cute. Great project to go with the book, and I am hoping that Anna will love it as much as Emily did.

Ticia said...

I love this craft. I've been sitting her all day wondering where your post was only to discover that randomly it wasn't showing up in my reader..... So glad I double checked your blog.

Susana said...

We are going to study penguins in two weeks and I am defintely adding this book to my list.

I LOVE this craft--may have to add it too:-).

You do the cutest things, so much fun!!

Elise said...

What an adorable penguin. Savvy really enjoys books with a rhyming text and we can't go past gorgeous illustrations - sounds like a wonderful book.

Anne said...

Mt girls loved this book! Such a great craft too!

Z-Kids said...

Love that penguin!

Julie said...

That's a very cute penguin!

Brimful Curiosities said...

That little penguin in the book looks like the one in the Happy Feet movie. So cute. I love how your paper plate penguin turned out.

annies home said...

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Trudie said...

This is the cutest thing I have seen!

Anonymous said...

adorable penguin! I need to get to the library and get some fun winter books :-)

Amanda said...

I love the paper plate penguin! We are going to start participating in this- what a fun idea!

Christy Killoran said...

We are reading some penguin books this week so I'll look for this one. I like your craft too!

Anonymous said...

Did this project last weekend with my daughter (3 yr) what a great idea. We had a family of penguins in all different colors.

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