Easy penguin craft made from paper rolls

Add this easy penguin craft, made from paper rolls, to our unit learning about snow and ice. They make a great homemade penguin play set for our Antarctica lesson plans.

 

 

Easy penguin craft children can make

Let’s make a penguin family!

 

Materials needed:

:: cardboard rolls

:: scissors

:: paint in black, white and orange

:: black marker pen

:: orange and black card or stickers (optional)

 

Let’s turn cardboard tubes into a penguin family that we can use in small world play.

Use two large cardboard rolls to be mum and dad penguin. Cut a third tube in half to be the penguin baby. Paint mum and dad black, with a white oval tummy. Paint baby a light grey colour and add black in its head and around its eyes.

 

 

To add the eyes and beaks you can:

:: paint them on

:: wait unit the background paint is dry and then draw them on with marker pens

:: cut them out from coloured card and stick them on once the background paint is dry.

 

 

The penguin family make wonderful toys to play with. You could build a snowy south pole small world around them.

A group of children could all make families to create a large penguin colony. They might create a diorama, annotated with notes about everything they have learned about Antarctica.