Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Flightless Birds and the Death of a Few

Hailey was learning about flightless birds in Science yesterday. I'm always looking for a way to include my pre-schooler in with her so I was thinking about how C loves Penguins and they are flightless birds. We have been rearranging our house so I stumbles across this box of Party crafts we had bought at Target and put away for safe keeping. (ha ha really I just forgot about it. ) I was glad I found it though because this was the perfect craft.





H and C loved trying to make their penguins look like the ones on the box. I gave them each two, A male and a Female. I think they did a pretty good job.



After they were done painting they got Penguin Tattoos!


Of course no craft would be complete without the death of a few birds.
We read several books about Penguins like;
Penguin Pete by Marcus Pfister
Penguin Pete, Ahoy by Marcus Pfister
Penguin Pete and Pat by Marcus Pfister
The Penguin (Animal Close-Ups) by Beatrice Fontanel
And we ended by watching Happy Feet.
On a side note, Christopher HATED Happy Feet and would not sit through it. Instead he found a black fuzzy glove to put and ran around saying he was a penguin.

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