Penguins

MATHEMATICAL PENGUINS

	See 365 Penguins, above.
	From Mathwire, Penguin Math has a range of math games and activities. For example, learn coordinate graphing with a game of “Capture the Penguin” or measure the world in penguin feet. (Some broken links, but still worth a visit.)
	Math Ideas for Penguin Theme has printable game pieces and instructions, a penguin tangram puzzle, penguin graphing exercises, patterning and counting activities, and more.
	From HoodaMath, Penguin Jump is a multiplication game with multicolored penguins.
	From Coolmath, Penguin Families is a logic game in which small penguins must be moved via ice floe from one shore to the other. Tricky.
	Cone Crazy, hosted by an ice-cream-scooping penguin, teaches multiplication.

ART, CRAFTS, AND PENGUINS

	From Artists Helping Children, Penguin Crafts is a long list, including gourd penguins, fingerprint penguins, penguin puppets, papier-mache penguins, and more.
	From Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, Polar Arts and Crafts has instructions for making polar salt-dough maps, paper snowflakes, 3-D penguins, and more.
	Make a Footprint Penguin.
	From Instructables, step-by-step instructions for making an Egg Carton Penguin.
	From the Crafty Crow, Penguin and Polar Bear Crafts include potato-print penguins, penguin bean bags, and toilet-paper-tube penguins.
	From Deep Space Sparkle, see these instructions for making wonderful Penguin Collages.
	Make a water bottle penguin!

POETIC PENGUINS

	By Judy Sierra, Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) is a catchy illustrated collection (with real penguin facts) for ages 4-8.
	Penguin poems aren’t just for kids. See Magellanic Penguin by Pablo Neruda.
	From William Jay Smith’s Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1953), see Penguin (“I think it must be very nice/To stroll about upon the ice/Night and day, day and night/Wearing only black and white…”). Also check out Smith’s Polar Bear.

PENGUINS IN THE MOVIES

	The 2006 movie Happy Feet stars a tap-dancing emperor penguin named Mumble. Rated PG. Also see Happy Feet Two (2011).
	Happy Feet is a multidisciplinary educator’s guide to accompany the movie, with writing exercises, simple science experiments, recipes, crafts, printable puzzles, and a resource list.
	March of the Penguins is a stunning documentary about the penguins’ annual quest to find mates and raise chicks. Available on DVD or as an Amazon Instant Video.