Penguin Movement Book Real Photos | Winter Gross Motor | SLP SPED OT APE
Product Description
This Penguin Movement Book and Movement Cards get your students moving, regulating, and learning through real-photo gross motor activities. Students waddle, hop, march, and jump like real penguins while building gross motor skills, motor planning, following directions, imitation, and attention. Use it during circle time, as a brain break, transition activity, or any time you need to get the "wiggles" out.
🐧 Perfect for:
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting following directions, imitation, and movement-based language goals
- Occupational Therapists working on gross motor, motor planning, sensory regulation, and imitation
- Adapted Physical Education (APE) teachers integrating movement with language and following directions
- Special Education teachers building winter brain break and movement routines
- Autism classrooms working on imitation, motor planning, and sensory regulation
- ABA therapists running discrete trial imitation and following directions programs
- Early Childhood, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers
- Music Therapists building movement-based language sessions
- Homeschool families with active learners
❄️ What's Included:
- 1 Penguin Movement Book (with real photos of penguin-inspired movements)
- A set of standalone Movement Cards for flexible use
- Real photos throughout — students see authentic penguin movements
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Gross motor skills (waddling, hopping, marching, jumping), motor planning, imitation skills, following directions, sensory regulation and self-regulation, attention and focus, listening comprehension, body awareness, winter and penguin vocabulary, and sequencing.
Sample Text:
"Can you waddle like a penguin?
Can you jump on two webbed feet?
Can you hop like a penguin?
Can you march to the beat?"
How to Use:
The teacher or therapist reads through the book aloud while modeling each movement, and students imitate the actions. Use the standalone movement cards to let students choose their own movement, take turns leading the group, or build a movement sequence (do 3 cards in a row). Perfect for circle time, brain breaks, transitions, before/after a focused activity, or any time the group needs to move.
🌨️ Ways to Use:
- Brain breaks and movement breaks
- Circle time and morning meeting
- Transition activities (between centers or subjects)
- OT gross motor and motor planning sessions
- Adapted Physical Education (APE) lessons
- Speech therapy following-directions warm-ups
- ABA discrete trial imitation training
- Sensory regulation and self-regulation routines
- Winter and penguin thematic units
- Indoor recess activities
- Tele-therapy movement breaks
If your students enjoy music and movement, they may also enjoy my Adapted Song Books and Movement Books. You can see the complete bundle here:
For more hands-on winter, penguin or polar bear activities, please see the links below:
