Puffin Golf Club Covers
Saturday, August 7th, 2010How 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.
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More Puffin Coloring Pages
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010We 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
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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…)
A Puffin Bag
Monday, May 31st, 2010This puffin bag is absolutely adorable and FOR SALE!!! They will make you one over at Pixelated Puffin for only $75!
If you want this bag, you simply need to email the person over at Pixelated Puffin and they will make you one! How lovely!
Puffin Puzzle–not so simple!
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
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!).
New Teacher Resources
Friday, April 24th, 2009We 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
Double Header – Puffin Guardians
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
These are so cute! The photograph was worth sharing. Thanks to idg on Flickr. =) I also happened upon this great website because of this photo — the website is managed by Magdalen Green and someone named Iain. It is all about puffins. We can appreciate that can’t we?
The site is worth a read. It has some great photos as well both to look at and to purchase. =)
Thanks Magdalen and Iain for sharing your love of puffins with the world!
What is a group of Puffins called?
Sunday, April 19th, 2009A group of puffins is called a gathering.
Puffin Art
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Puffin on Kernow Signs
Puffin Art by Eleanor Grosch
Puffin Carving by Calvin Hunt
Puffin Pursuits
Sunday, April 12th, 2009I 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.
There are six main categories of fun to choose from:
- Jigsaw Puzzle—Here you can put together pieces of a puzzle—always depicting puffins eventually. These puzzles can be as simple as 9 pieces or as complex as 100 pieces.
- Storybook—Here you can read (and listen along) to a story about a man’s journey to see the Puffins. It has beautiful black-and-white hand drawn illustrations included.
- Safari—Here you can choose easy, medium or hard options to go on a safari with Professor Eggwood where you look through binoculars at animals and choose which animal you are looking at from the four options provided. Each level ends with the choosing of a puffin. Here you learn to identify many different animals both in flight and standing still.
- Slider Puzzle—Here you can slide tiles to get the picture perfect. You can choose 9 tiles to 36 tiles depending on your desired level of challenge. The pictures are nice to see after you slide the tiles into the correct place.
- Match—Here you can match pictures, like the game of Memory, matching the pictures on the tiles. You turn one over and try to find (or remember its matchint tile). You can choose a game with 6 tiles or 48!!!
- Videos—Here you can watch a documentary with our without a voice over — all about puffins.
This game is inexpensive but packed with tons of educational fun, cute games, hand drawn illustrations and hours of game-playing. I would definitely recommend getting this game for all ages.
You can get Puffin Pursuits here.
Before The Puffin Swam (poem) by Eric Ratcliffe
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Before 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
