How fun is this? A puffin golf club cover or officially, “Daphne’s Puffin Headcovers”! Well, I would so buy them for my favorite golfer but I think he’d protest just a bit.

We simply can never have ENOUGH puffin coloring pages, can we? I found some new free puffin coloring pages on various sites today. You can download them, print them out and color them. You can even send them to me after scanning them in or email me below to get my mailing address to mail them once they are finished and I will post them to Puffinpalooza. I will do this for an entire class even! The offer is open for anyone interested!

Puffin Coloring Page from Learning Treasures

Click on this small picture to open the page where you can print this to color!

Puffin Coloring page from First School

Click on the image to open the coloring page to print!

 

Puffin Coloring page by My Free Colouring Pages

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Puffin coloring page by Kid Zone

Click on the image to open the puffin coloring page to print!

 

Here are some more puffin coloring pages and some activity worksheets for teachers and classrooms — all by ABC Teach

Puffin coloring page

Click on the image to open the puffin activity page to print!

More puffin activities from ABC Teach click below… (more…)

I wrote about Nintendo’s Puffins Island Adventure awhile back and linked to a pretty thorough review. Now I’ve found three Nintendo DSi Mini-Games you can download that are in addition to the Puffins Island Adventure…

Screenshots from all three mini games

Puffins: Let’s Fish

Chomp your way to victory in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean! Dive into the deep blue sea and load up your beak with delicious fish, but watch out! The ocean can be a dangerous place and you’re not the only one hunting for food. Sharks, jellyfish and other fearsome sea creatures are just waiting to take a chomp out of you. Avoid the predators and use a “Quick Catch” to gulp as many fish as you can while you explore sunken ships and underwater tunnels in this fast paced, old school arcade-style action game. It’s an All-You-Can-Eat feast in two different exciting gameplay modes across 18 underwater stages. So take a deep breath, jump in and come up with a full belly, but remember to look out for those sharks!¹

Puffins: Let’s Roll

Baby Puffins need your help! They’re just about to hatch from their eggs, but the eggs have been misplaced! Try not to crack up as you reunite the missing Puffin eggs with their mothers using our innovative new control scheme to roll the eggs in two thrilling game modes (Egg Roll and Capelin Catch) over 20 levels of fiendish puzzles. Watch out for rocks, trees, ice and other hazards as you face challenges from all new obstacles never before seen in Puffins: Island Adventure. Don’t take too long or bump into too many obstacles though, or you’ll have a cranky baby Puffin on your hands!²

Puffins: Let’s Race

Get ready to challenge the speediest puffins on the island for the title of Fastest Flyer! Go beak-to-beak with your opponents in a race to the finish line or go solo against the clock. Use strategically placed power-ups like the “Squawk Shot” to get ahead of the pack and win the race. Speed through four different game modes on eight different tracks to prove your flight skill or challenge up to three of your friends in local wireless play. Do you have what it takes to become the race champion of Puffin Island or will you be left behind with the rest of the flock?³

1. http://www.puffinsislandadventure.com/sitemap.php?page=dsigames [↩]
2. http://www.puffinsislandadventure.com/sitemap.php?page=dsigames [↩]
3. http://www.puffinsislandadventure.com/sitemap.php?page=dsigames [↩]

I found another free online puffin game for all of you to play…PUFFIN PILOT… where you are a puffin flying a plane through hoops, as many as necessary for each level… its up and down…all around puffin fun!

Click on either picture to play Puffin Pilot online free!

Click on either picture to play Puffin Pilot online free!

Puffin Scrambler Puzzle

Oh! It looks simple–9 squares–but once you get started, you will be in for hours of mind-scrambling fun with this puzzle. I couldn’t stop playing…it is not as easy as it looks. Check it out for yourself (click on the picture above!).

We have now added a Teacher Resource Page with worksheets you can print out and use in your classrooms. We intend on updating this often. Please let us know what you think at puffinpalooza @ gmail dot com.

CLICK HERE to visit the new Teacher Resource Page

Which bird is always out of breath?

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A puffin!

I received the game yesterday and played it for a few hours straight. It was pretty fun, cute and informative. I learned a lot about puffins as well as about other animals near to the puffin. The graphics are not state-of-the-art but there is some good hand drawn art work throughout and some good photographs.

I gathered some songs about puffins and puffin sounds to share with you. If you want to listen to them—Look to the right and find the small black music player. Simply click play in the middle and enjoy. If you know other puffin songs you’d like to share, please e-mail me.

In case you would like to get these puffin songs / sounds for yourself I have included a play list below with links to the songs. =)

Title: The Puffin
Artist: Terri Thurman Finck

Title: A Puffin
Artist: Port O’Brien

Title: The Puffin
Artist: Hank Davis

Title: Puffin
Artist: John Neville

Title: Lulie the Iceberg/”The clown-faced Puffins had a ride…”
Artist: Yo-Yo Ma; Paul Winter; Pamela Frank; SamWaterston; Derrick Inouye

I couldn’t find the following song but here are the lyrics.

The Puffin Song

Copyright 1990 by Tom Knight

I’m not like the penguin, don’t confuse me with ducks

I’m dressed for dinner in my finest fancy tux

My beak it is pretty, my feathers are fine

Long time ago, the hunters wanted mine

Call me a Puffin, ‘cuz that’s my name

I live on an island just off the coast of Maine

But I wasn’t born here, I was brought by a man

And now my burrow is here on Egg Rock Island

Chorus:

Come fly with me

Fly across the sea

Come fly with me

Puffins we will be

My brothers and sisters, my lovely wife

We like to gather, we love the social life

A picnic for puffins, a tasty old treat

I hope you like fish, it’s our favorite thing to eat (Chorus)

Before The Puffin Swam

Long, long ago, before the puffin swam,
neither sun nor sail bewildered those
who, simple in their sleep, walked to a day
of golden trees and apples in the air,
and quiet tilted villages.

The men flailed and the women wove
and when the eyes of heaven closed
they rested by fin-fairy fires
and watched the smoke climb upright to the stars.

Here the peace of an eternal autumn passed,
still leaves endured, and for the steeple doves
time kissed lightly underneath the moon;
the stones of ancient masons sang
the pale language of the livng dead,
the wall-chants of the spirit of the race
who left his talismans at eventide
lonely in the grey home shade.

Here lay the axe, once sun-slanted and crossed
before ripe muscles on a summer morning
and the old stones sing back two thousand years
to the skin-belted body which turned inthe sun,
and twisted and struck, one lever of flesh
at the tree on the forest floor.

Only the blue flints know of the heavy dead
fibre-bare in the deep midnight earth,
under the dumb centuries of cloven hooves,
and of souls’ last kisses before they fled
like shadows on the arms of some star-white god.

Forever beneath the high moon clouds
the red-haired cattle stray,
meeting and passing like porcelain
upon a waxen way.

Sires of their sires by hecatomb
had writhed beneath the sun;
some new man-woman would bleed
the calves of their calves by gun.
And one dozen paces from their skulls
would meet in temples on the shale
- with hassocks at their feet.

Eric Ratcliffe