Penguins: Fun Learning Activities

What do you know about penguins?

Can penguins fly?

Are they birds?

Why do they have wings?

All the answers are on this website

Above are eight types of penguins. Can you put them in size order - from biggest to smallest?

Try drawing them in a line at a reduced scale: 10 cm = 1 metre.

Choose one type of a penguin.

Write your diary for a typical day.

Describe

• where you live
• what you eat
• what you like to do
• your family

1. Which penguin am I?

- I have bright feathers on my head

- I am one of 3 million breeding pairs

- I can find them in the Falkland Islands

- They eat squid, krill and other small fish

- They are between 45-48 centimeters tall

- They weigh 2 – 3 kilograms.

2. Now find the same information for three other penguins.

Can you draw a penguin? Start by doing the join the dots penguin here:

1. Colour in this African Penguin. The labels tell you which colours
2. Try and fill in the labels on this picture.
3. Can you remember the words to fill in the labels without looking?

Try not to let learners see before they draw. All the other information needed for activities is easily found in the Penguin pages on this website.