This one is messy, so it requires teacher supervision and participation. Prepare a wash bowl and lay out a sheet of plastic. Give each child a sheet of white construction paper, then, one at a time, dip one of each child's feet in black washable paint and press his footprint onto the construction paper. Write the child's name on the paper, set it aside, and wash the child's foot.
While the footprints are drying, have the children each cut out one small yellow triangle, and one white oval, the size of an egg. Give each child a pair of paste-on googly eyes. Give them their footprints, and show them how to paste the yellow beak and the two googly eyes onto the heel of the footprint, turning it into the head of the penguin. Then they can paste on the white egg to make a white belly for the penguin.
Each child draws a bear on a large sheet of construction paper. Have plenty of pictures of bears for them to imitate. Each child then carefully spreads school glue over the portions of the bear where there is fur. Before the glue dries, have each child take coffee grounds and sprinkle them onto the glued pictures, with a pan underneath to catch the fall-away grounds. They can do this several times until the bears are fully furred.
Each child gets a "book" made of 26 pages of construction paper, stapled at the spine. Each child is given sheets with block letters of the entire alphabet, which the children cut out and paste into the books in the correct order, as much as possible on the tops of the pages. Then they color the letters. Next, give the children pictures of animals, one animal for each letter of the alphabet -- for example, F for frog, P for peacock. The children identify the pages with the right letters, then cut out the animal and paste it onto the bottom half of the appropriate page. Finally, they color each animal.
Each child receives a paper plate, scissors, yarn, glue, googly eyes, and washable markers. The children clip the yarn into pieces about as long as their fingers, then glue the piece circumferentially around the paper plates. In the middle of the plate, each child makes a large black dot for a nose. From the nose, each is shown how to make a downward centerline that bifurcates into two U's that radiate from each direction away from the centerline. This makes the lion's muzzle and cheeks. Show the children how to draw three straight whiskers that poke sideways out of the cheeks. Finally, they paste on the two googly eyes. When it is complete, each child writes her name on the back of her paper plate lion.