I hope you have a fabulous fun lucky green day, all day! Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all my penguin friends!

I think Irish Penguins definitely have the most fun, or at least today they do.

Feel free to pass this St. Patrick’s Day penguin on to your friends! You can also send them a fun St. Patrick’s Day Penguin animated greeting

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This penguin video is awesome! For those of you old enough to remember the Muppets, Beaker and Bunsen, you’ll get an extra laugh out of this one. The Muppets do the bunny hop… with penguins wearing bunny ears.

I say this is perfect for Easter, but I really think bunny penguins are perfect all year round, too cute!

Can YOU and your penguin do the bunny hop?

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Recently I saw drawings of penguins by a class of 1st graders, they were SO very cute! So I thought I’d share some ideas with you about how to draw your own penguin. There are a lot of different ways to draw penguins, you can choose to draw something very simple or artistic or you might want to try to draw a very realistic looking penguin which is going to be a much more advanced drawing.

Here I’ll show you how to draw 3 different penguins. Each how to draw a penguin tutorial is fairly basic. I created them to be simple so you can get started and with some practice make your own fun cartoon penguin drawings. Have fun!

How to draw a penguin – Easy
How to draw a penguin – moderate
How to draw a penguin – advanced

Drawing penguins isn’t too hard once you know the basic steps. Practice drawing the different penguins below and soon you’ll be drawing your own style of penguins! You can add ad much or as little detail as you like. Change the way the penguin’s eyes look or maybe add extra details to make your penguin drawing look like a specific type of penguin.

How to draw a penguin – Easy
First lets start with a basic penguin drawing, nothing to fancy but still very cute:
Always start with the body and then draw the belly. Add arms/flippers, feet and last add the eyes and beak. Now you can color your penguin however you like.

How to draw a penguin – moderate
A little more difficult is drawing a penguin from the side. Again start with the body, see the little tail on the backside? Then draw the belly and then add one flipper, one foot. Last you need to draw one eye and a side view of the beak.

How to draw a penguin – advanced
Finally a little more advance penguin drawing – this is a cartoon Little Blue Penguin (also known as a Fairy penguin). First draw the penguin head and then the body, erase the area where they overlap. Repeat this process to draw the penguin’s white belly and head area. Then add the flippers and feet and finally add the eyes and beak.

You can add in your own special touch to your penguin drawing by including details for feathers or draw some clothing on your penguin. A hat would be super cute!

You can even try changing the eyes, turning a flipper to wave or maybe color your penguin drawing a little different and see what other fun penguins you can come up with.

More tutorials and information about How to draw penguins

How to draw a penguin from Webzins

Video of How to draw a penguin from DrawingNow.com

How to draw a cute diving penguin from UncleFred.com

How to draw a baby penguin from Dragonart.com

Step by step how to draw a penguin tutorial from MoreColoringPages.com

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In case you’ve missed this amazing penguins news, there’s a rare black penguin that’s been spotted recently. The now famous photo of this all black penguin (aka melanistic penguin) was taken by Andrew Evans during his trip from Washington D.C. to Antarctica. For a few weeks now there has been a bit of talk about this really cool photo. At first glance I was sure it was another Photoshop joke. However, after reading the articles there’s no doubt this penguin is genuine. How awesome is that?

“He looked like a single black king moving across a chessboard of so many white pawns.” Evans said.

The penguin was spotted at Fortuna Bay on Antarctica’s Georgia Island which is

According to the National Geographic’s article, some travelers on this trip recalled also seeing the penguin at St. Andrew’s Bay.

“It’s a one-in-a-zillion mutation, scientists say.” ~CBANews.com

All black penguin sighted by Ted Cheeseman in 2006

Nature usually takes care of animal abnormalities, so it’s been assumed that this unique penguin wouldn’t last long in the while. However, there are reports that this penguin has been spotted previously so he has obviously been around a while. Ted Cheeseman of Cheeseman Ecology Safaris shares his sighting of the all black penguin from January 2006.

What kind of penguin is this?

This is a King Penguin, and according to Evans reports, seems to be living just fine among his friends and family in the colony. He may even have a mate.

What is a Melanistic penguin?

National Geographic describes melanistic as “Melanism is merely the dark pigmentation of skin, fur–or in this case, feathers. The unique trait derives from increased melanin in the body.”.

Read the full story about the Rare All Black Penguin at National Geographic

Where is South Georgia Island?
East of South America in the Atlantic Ocean.

Black penguin spotted on South Georgia Island

More black penguin photos – hunting around the web I came across more instances of black penguins, here’s what I’ve found:

From Black penguin comments on Freerepublic.com. It looks like an Adelie Penguin to me, what do you think? I think maybe this one is simply a baby who’s white feathers haven’t developed just yet… see the white speckles on either side of its belly?

Black Adelie Penguin from Freerepublic

More comments and coverage for this story:

Story of Rare Black Penguin National Geographic

All-Black Penguin Is One-in-a-Zillion CBS News

All Black Penguin Discovered Treehugger.com

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Penguin goodies seem to come in waves. Some weeks there’s tons of penguin chatter and info and cool new stuff while other weeks we could drop and ice cube and there wouldn’t be a penguin around to hear it. So I’m starting a new idea… every Friday I’d like to share some favorite penguin find. There are really heaps and piles of penguins out there to be found, it’s just a matter of either looking hard enough, or knowing where to look… or better yet, having penguin friends talking about their favorite penguins. Between you and me, I think we can make this work!

So for today, my penguin find is Penguin Blues by Dezine Design

Penguin Blues by Dezine Design

Do you have a favorite piece of penguin art?

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Free printable Penguin Valentines by JGoode – each print out includes 8 different penguins with a cute message. The back of each card includes a cupid penguin with an area to write your own message. Simply print and cut!

Valentines by JGoode

Download the pdf for Free Penguin Valentines from JGoode Designs

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I was hoping to get a few new penguins for Christmas but instead I received a whole handful! Here are my new penguins…

• 1 Kohls gift card featuring a cartoon penguin which came in a penguin tin (i love tins too!)
• 4 penguin ornaments – one opens up, which is really cool and another is a mini picture frame
• 1 funny penguin candy holder – I love his expression!
• and just last night a friend brought me this super soft blanket that has fun penguins and polar bears on it.
• I also received two pairs of fun socks but I’ve worn them and haven’t yet washed them so thought I would spare you the photo

I’d love to hear about the great penguin gifts you received!

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When it snows, this is what I do- catch snowflakes with my tongue. “Do penguins have tongues?” you might ask. Well indeed I think they do, I’ve just never seen it, have you?

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This week the chatter about penguins was a little less, not as much penguin talk going on. Also, I was more busy than usual, so I wasn’t able to hunt down all the cool stuff. If you ever find a cool penguin something or other that you want to share, send a message on twitter @ilovepenguins so I can make sure to include it on this weekly list!

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JOKES

What do you call a penguin in the Sahara? A: LOST ( RT @LesleyDewar )

THINGS to BUY

CUTE! penguin cupcake and cookie art (via RT @Cherylpurplecow @pghcakegirl )

PHOTOS

Cool Penguin Art: Penguin’s Love Steps (via RT @aaviv)

Photo: penguin (via @funekaz)

Awesome photo! Picture of penguins on an iceberg. Makes me want to install Linux. (via RT @Akula )

NEWS

Uh-oh: penguins are evolving faster than we suspected. (via @onezeromusic )

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Make your own holiday gift tags with this fun print-n-make craft project. Just download the free penguin gift tag pdf file. Print it out and follow the instructions to make your own gift tags!

You will need:

paper
computer with printer
glue
scissors
hole punch
ribbon

Tips:

Use a thick paper like construction paper or card stock so your tags are a little sturdier
Use decorative scissors to add a fun cut to the edges of your gift tags

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