Theme: Little Penguin’s Tale, by Audrey
Wood
Honey Pot is 2 years and 2 months old
We are participating again in this summer’s
Virtual Book Club! (See what we did last month with a book from Mo Willems!)
This time we had to choose a story by Audrey Wood. I love how this is
introducing us to new and wonderful authors that I might never have discovered
otherwise. And our little library had a large selection of books from which to
choose. We brought home Little Penguin’s Tale as well as Piggy Pie Po.
It was so hard to choose just one of these for our activities. Both such cute
stories! We ended up picking Little Penguin’s Tale, and
read it often throughout the week.
Tin Can Music
First we did an activity related to the actual
story. At one point Little Penguin happens upon some gooney birds, making music
with tin cans and empty glass bottles. Well I had no glass bottles in the
house, but I did have a nice supply of empty coffee cans awaiting some use! Honey Pot banged around on our little drums and made music and danced like the gooney
birds!
Ice Skating Like A Penguin
I discovered this idea at Inner Child Fun! I
attached some wax paper to the bottoms of Honey Pot’s feet, and let her slide
around the carpet like a penguin on ice. She slid around and around her craft
table so many times! It was a great way to get up and moving, and elicited lots
of giggles! “I’m a penguin!”
Webbed Feet/Fishing
Here is another way we pretended to be
penguins today. The idea comes from Making Learning Fun. I attached sandwich
bags to Honey Pot’s hands with a rubber band, and let her run them through the
water to feel what it might be like to have webbed feet.
Then we added some fish and let her go fishing
like a penguin!
“Numm-y!”
And of course…what does Honey Pot ever do but
put her feet in this bin? Hey, they’re supposed to be webbed feet anyway!
Cream Cheese Penguins
In my search for penguin-related activities and crafts, I
stumbled upon this adorable snack from a blog called Our Big Earth. How cute
are these? Mine didn’t have such nice and round, white bellies as theirs…but they were
cute anyway I think.
Honey Pot got a kick out of them!
And she is a huge fan of olives and carrots. I wasn’t sure
how the cream cheese would taste with them though. And truth be told, neither
of us was a huge fan of the taste combination. But I only made a few of them,
so we snacked on olives and carrots after the initial tasting.
I discovered this idea on Pinterest, originating from Meet the Dubiens. A huge fan of hand and footprint art, I just had to do this with
Honey Pot! We painted her foot black, made a print, then waited for the print to dry. In the meantime, I let her do some free painting so
that she could enjoy the craft a bit more. Later I added
the details then allowed her to glue googly eyes!
Here is the final product!
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We are linking our activities up to the Summer
Virtual Book Club!
Check out what some of our blogging friends did with the theme:
Check out what some of our blogging friends did with the theme: