Animals of Antarctica Books and printables

Most of the printables and coloring pages are for penguins because I couldn’t find much for the other animals. There were a few things for older children, but I chose not to include them. I’ve found these posts on Antarctica hard to do because there’s not much there. That’s also why these posts have been so far apart. There’s a third small post I’m working on for Antarctica, but I’m not sure when it’ll be done. I won’t start a new series of continent posts until January. I hope you enjoy some of these books and printables. I have not read all the books, but I picked the ones I thought would be interesting, informative, cute or appropriate for younger children. Most of them are labeled with reading ages 4-8.

Books
365 Penguins
Antarctica (True Books: Continents)
A Penguin Story
Baby Seal (Nature Babies)
Big Blue Whale: Read and Wonder
Explore Antarctica (Explore the Continents)
Here Is Antarctica (Web of Life)
I am a Seal: The Life of an Elephant Seal
If You Were a Penguin
Is A Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
Islands of Ice: The Story of a Harp Seal
Penguin
Penguin (See How They Grow)
Sammy the Seal (I Can Read)
Seals (Polar Animals)
The Little Seal
The Orphan Seal
Printables

Penguin Maze
Help the penguin dive through the penguin shaped maze to catch a fish.
Penguin Maze 2
the penguin is going to its family.
Penguin dot to dot puzzle
Download blue whale theme paper
Penguin life cycle
What I learned about penguins
Many penguin printables and activities


Coloring Pages
Penguin Coloring Page
Penguin with its chick
Penguin pushing a bear on a sled
Penguin relaxing on the beach
Penguin hatching egg
Penguin sitting on iceberg
Penguin serving fish on a platter
Seal coloring page
Seal balancing ball
Blue whale coloring page

Snacks
Oreo penguins
Penguin games and snack

Arctic Ice Fishing

Here’s an ice fishing activity that I made to go with my Antarctica theme.

What you’ll need:
1 container,
Water,
Food coloring,
Rubber or plastic fish or other objects that you want to freeze,
Spoons, Plastic or wooden hammer or Anything else to break the ice with,
Snow cone maker, (optional).

First, I filled the container about half full with water. I used a plastic Tupperware container. I forgot to take pictures as I was making it. I added four drops of blue food coloring. Then added a few rubber fish that I bought at the Dollar Tree. I know that most of these fish don’t live in Antarctica, but they are the closest thing I have on hand. Next, I put the container in the freezer. I didn’t want all the water to freeze so I kept checking on it. Some of the water spilled so I had to add more which is why it ended up filled almost to the top. It took about three or four hours for the top half of the container to freeze. With the water underneath cold, but not completely frozen, it makes it easier to make holes in the ice. Some of the fish froze upside-down which I didn’t plan on either. Well, maybe they were diving!

Once the top was frozen, I took it out and tried to poke it with a spoon. It was a little hard, but doable. It would be easier with a hammer or something else to tap with. That’s part of the fun, the kids can experiment and figure out what works best to get the fish out.







Next, I added snow! I used an inexpensive snow cone maker I bought from Walmart. I used about a cup of ice cubes which doesn’t make much snow, but enough for a couple little snow banks or a layer of snow on the top. It melts quickly so making a few cups and freezing it might work better especially if you have more than one child doing this activity. I thought it came out well and think it’d be fun to try with the preschoolers.