Make a sock penguin

As cute as a sock monkey?

This instructable will walk you through the step by step creation of a Sock Penguin. This project was completed for a Grade 1 (6 year old kids) class that has been studying penguins.

Please note that no penguins were harmed in the creation of this project, however, some socks were severely damaged in the prototyping stage. Please do not use socks that still contain feet.

Note that hot glue guns can burn you. They're called "hot" for a reason. Do not let 6 year olds operate hot glue guns. Adult supervision is required. Also, do not let 6 year olds operate heavy machinery. It's just a bad plan.

Penguin Pincushion

"Penguin Pincushion-"Let It Snow"" uploaded by squirrel momma

Penguin Frolic Baby Quilt Pattern

It's believed that very small babies respond principally to black and white. If that's true, your favorite newborn will respond with pleasure to the Penguin Frolic Baby Quilt. The finished piece measures approximately 50 X 64 inches.

Download a photo and the patterns for the Penguin Frolic Baby Quilt in this four-page PDF.

Free Penguin Pal Hat Knitting Pattern

This cheerful cap is as cool as can be, but it's sure to keep any child warm. Once you get the hang of knitting from a chart, you may play around with more designs to see which other animals would make a cute hat!

Get knitting instructions here

Fused Glass Christmas Penguin

An easy fused glass project: a Christmas Penguin.

Full instructions from Glass Fusing Made Easy

Paint a penguin on your face

Step by step instructions for a Christmas Penguin using Snazaroo face paints by Helen @ Cats Whiskers

Sandy penguins

Crochet a penguin

The pattern is currently sold out. Maybe they'll have more in the future?

from Etsy, by crochetroo

Crafty penguins

Photo: Mariska Vos-Bolman

The easiest penguin cookies

You will need...
Some Oreos (1 per penguin cookie)
Some Hershey's Kisses (1 per penguin cookie)
A plate to put the cookies on

Instructions:
Split the oreo into two cookies
Move most of the icing onto one cookie
Break the other cookie into halves
Open a kiss and put it on the cookie with icing to make a head
Put both of the half cookies on the cookie with icing to make wings

found here

Breakfast with a penguin

luckysundae

Let's have a snack

More at secondose
(via haha.nu)

Penguin Cookies

Recipe at Pillsbury.com

Soft sculpture penguin

Soft sculpture by Abby Glassenberg at While She Naps

Emu Egg Penguin

Sitting on a little iceberg that is covered with faux snow, this little penguin is waiting for his chance to waddle into your home. He is hand painted on an emu egg. Can you think of any better penguin gift for that special someone?

$35.00 at Egg Crazy

Lightbulb penguin

Instructions at: About.com

Crochet a Baby Penguin Amigurumi

From Instructables, with instructions

Kid Crafts: Penguin Fingerprints

A great craft for little kids:
Have the child use gray ink to make fingerprints. Add an orange beak and black eyes and wings with a marker.

Instructions from the Activity Idea Place

Kid Crafts: Penguin Hat

Instructions at thebestkidsbooksite.com

Penguins for Christmas

Evelyn Lines loves chilling with the penguins in her Valley Stream living room. There's the penguin with a plate of fresh-baked cookies, two waddlers toasting marshmallows, snowboarding penguins, even a pair having a snowball fight.

All are the creations of Lines' children - Tim, 21, and Kerri, 17 - who have indulged their mother's passion for penguins by sculpting them for her for the past 12 Christmases.

"The first year I was shocked and I thought they were so cute," says Lines, 50, who works as an art teacher's aide at an elementary school. "And then the next year I was even more surprised because I didn't think that they would keep doing it. "

Since then, the penguins have become a gift tradition; they've also become more elaborate each year. Last Christmas, Kerri managed the happy feat of sculpting a penguin Nativity scene. "Usually it take about 2 1/2 to 3 hours to make the penguin, but the manger I made last year took a little longer," Kerri says.

To create the penguins, Tim and Kerri work with clay that comes in the colors they want. Once sculpted, their creations are baked in a toaster oven. After the penguins have cooled, their dad sprays each one with a clear acrylic for a nice sheen.

Lines, who admits she can't wait to see what penguins she'll get this year, wonders if her children will stop making her Christmas penguins after they move out.

No need to fear. Kerri says she'll keep on crafting them: "Oh, of course I will."


(Photo by Howard Schnapp, Freelance / December 1, 2007)
Source: Newsday.com