Penguin Action Song and Gross Motor Activities

Your children are going to love these gross motor activities that will have them moving like penguins.  They will have a great time flapping their arms and doing the other actions found on a set of penguin activity charts and action sequence cards I created. When they are done with them, they waddle around while reciting a fun penguin action song I found.

Gross Motor Activities

Let’s Move Like a Penguin Printable Set

Learning Each Action

This set of Let’s Move Like a Penguin gross motor activities can be used in a number of ways.  You could start by having your children try to do the actions on each of the charts. That way you will know that they understand what each action is.

Waddling From One Action to the Next

Then you could place the action posters on the floor in a row. Your children could waddle from one action poster to the next. When they read an action poster, they can do that action.

Action Sequence Cards

You will find a set of four action sequence cards in the printable set. You can hold up one card a time for your children to do. It is up to you as to whether they do the actions on each card once or over and over again. Children could place the cards around a room. Then they could waddle up to each card and do each sequence of actions.

Penguin Action Song

Children can move in a circle or around the room and recite this fun rhyme.

Waddling Penguin

(to tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, “ suit actions to words)

Penguins, penguins,
It’s so much fun
Waddling in the winter sun.
Waddling fast and waddling slow,
Waddling to and waddling fro.
Penguins, penguins,
Wish I were one,
Waddling in the winter sun.

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This set of gross motor activities was created to go along with the book Penguin and Pinecone. (It is the Virtual Book Club book of the week.) Here are some more activities based on the book.

PENGUIN THEMED LITERACY IDEAS

Penguin Themed Alphabet Activity from The Educator’s Spin on It

PENGUIN THEMED MATHS IDEAS

Penguin Ice Flow Game – you are here!

Learning to Code with Penguin Game Boards from JDaniel4’s Mom

Building Shape Igloos for a Penguin from JDaniel4’s Mom

PENGUIN THEMED SENSORY AND PLAY

How to make a Penguin Sensory Bin from Mama Smiles

PENGUIN THEMED ART AND CRAFT ACTIVITIES

Penguin Painting from My Storytime Corner

Penguin Painting for Toddlers from Inspiration Laboratories

Here are some more wonderful books about penguins. (The links below are affiliate links.)