Penguin Pre-K Project

Inspire your preschool children to develop an appreciation for arctic animals by featuring penguin crafts. Watch videos and teach lessons about penguins first to inspire their creations and help them understand penguin behavior, habitat and breeding patterns. Devote an entire day to learning about and crafting penguins or set aside an entire week for arctic animals such as penguins, polar bears and other creatures.

Penguin Class Collage

Encourage the children to make a giant penguin class collage to showcase on the bulletin board. Buy a large sheet of blue paper 4 feet tall by 6 feet wide. You can find these rolls of paper at a craft store. Glue a poster of a penguin family in the middle of the paper, and encourage the children to decorate around the poster. The kids can cut out penguin eggs from white paper and glue these on, or draw several pictures. Give kids stickers of snowflakes, penguins and icicles to decorate with. Cut out pictures of penguins and baby penguins, and help kids glue these on the collage.

Penguin Rock Art

Find large, flat wide rocks in the wilderness or buy these at a home improvement store. Help the kids paint penguins on the rocks. They can paint pictures of a mama and baby penguin or showcase a nest with eggs and little babies hatching. Show kids pictures of all sorts of penguins to inspire their creations.

Baby Penguin Painting

Teach the kids about baby penguins and how parents care for their young. For example, the emperor penguin leaves her egg with the father so he can guard it and sit on the egg while she hunts for fish and brings back food. The pair works as a team and stick with other colonies. Show the kids pictures of the father penguin sitting on the egg, and help them paint these images. They can also paint the entire family together or just paint the little penguin playing with other new hatchlings.

Coloring Pages

Preschool children love to color with crayons, colored pencils or markers, so encourage them to color a few penguin pictures. Buy penguin-themed coloring books from the movie "Surf's Up" or print coloring pages online. Cut out the pictures, and add them to the class collage, or hang up the art on the bulletin board.