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Porpoise Protectors

DISCOVERY WELCOME TO PORPOISE PROTECTORS!

Welcome to WDC’s Porpoise Protectors Award for children 8 years old and under. You will learn about dolphins and porpoises and what you can do to help them.

Complete all three sections: Discovery, Action and Fundraising to receive your special Award. Harbour porpoise

Did you Know? There are 90 different types of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Only 7 of these are porpoises; the porpoise family look very similar to dolphins and are hard to tell apart. Porpoises are just a bit smaller, have blunt shaped noses, small dorsal fins and flat-shaped teeth. Examples are Harbour porpoise, Dall’s porpoise and Spectacled porpoise.

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY I am a dolphin I live in the sea With my brothers and sisters And our whole family

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY I swim up to breathe And down to feed I catch fish and crabs Amongst the seaweed

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY When we are exploring the ocean We sometimes see a huge whale Diving down to the deep With a slap of his tail

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY While he is swimming The whale sings a song He swims faster than me And he is very, very long!

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY Have you ever wondered How we dolphins sleep? We shut one eye at a time So we can still peep!

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY But sometimes it is scary As there are many threats We can get hurt by boats, litter and fishing nets.

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY My home is full of plastic That’s dangerous for me to eat I don’t want a plastic bag I want a tasty jellyfish treat!

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY The loud boats scare me When my friends and I play Sometimes they chase us And we cannot get away

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY It is hard to find food When boats make too much noise We need help from some special girls and boys!

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY It is my wonderful home So please look after the sea And all the creatures who live there Like my family and me.

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY DISCOVERY CHALLENGES

Pretend you are a dolphin and Now complete draw a picture of something one of these you would like to eat. Then Write about or draw a picture of draw a picture of something challenges! the ocean you would live in if you you might find in the sea but were a whale or dolphin. you should not eat.

Don’t forget to take photos of your challenge!

Make a whale! – We have Write about three things people Write about or draw a picture included some photos and could do to make life better for of what you would like about how-to guides for inspiration! whales and dolphins. being a whale or dolphin.

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY How to draw a dolphin

Follow these steps to create your very own bottlenose dolphin!

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY Make a whale! ORIGAMI whale

whale AND DOLPHIN collage

COLOUR A WHALE OR DOLPHIN Egg box whale

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY Make a whale kazoo You need: 1. Cut a circle out of baking • A toilet roll tube paper • String or elastic band 2. Wrap it over the top of • Scissors your toilet roll and secure it • with a piece of string or Blue or green elastic band. card/paper or white paper coloured-in • 3. Cut out a rectangle of blue or Glue or double-sided green card/paper about the same tape length of your toilet roll • Colouring pencils/pens 4. Wrap it around and glue it in • Cotton wool (optional) place 5. Use a pencil to make two or three holes along one side (this will be the bottom of your kazoo) A kazoo is a simple 6. Cut out the whales from the musical template and colour them in 7. Stick them to the sides of your instrument! kazoo – be careful not to cover the holes 8. Stick some cotton wool along one edge of the kazoo to represent the waves 9. Place your mouth over the open end and sing or hum into your kazoo!

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY You need: • Egg box make an egg • Paint and paintbrush • Glue or double-sided box whale tape • Pipe cleaner • Scissors • Card Stick the flippers, tail and eyes • Felt tip pen on to your whale. If you don’t • Googly eyes (optional) have googly eyes, you can draw them on. Ask an adult to make a hole in the top of the whale’s head (blowhole).

Cut out one section of an egg box. You might Fold the pipe cleaner in half need an adult to help and push it through the hole. you. Paint it blue and Twist it so it can’t come back set it to one side to through the hole. dry.

Draw and cut out your whale’s flippers and Bend the ends of the pipe tail on to the card. If cleaners to look like a you don’t have blue whale’s spout! card, you can colour or paint it in blue.

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY If you’d like to make a dolphin make an origami whale instead, here’s a video to show You will need: you how! Step 3: • A piece of Now fold the top point down to meet square paper the top edges of the sides you folded in • Scissors step 2. It will now look like a diamond. • Pen

Step 1: Place your paper with a point at Step 4: the bottom. Fold in half from left Fold your origami in to right and unfold again. half and crease well

Step 5: Step 2: Turn your whale onto its side. Fold the lower left and right sides so they Fold the narrow end up and cut meet at the middle crease and press new carefully down the middle to make folds. You should now have a kite shape. a tail fluke. Draw eyes and a smile. Now you can decorate your whale or write a message on him!

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY MAKE A RECYCLED WHALE PLANT POT Around the world 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away every You’ll need day! If they get to the sea they can hurt whales and dolphins. an adult’s Why not turn one into a whale plant pot? help to make this whale! You need: • A large plastic bottle Paint the whale • Sandpaper white all over. • Acrylic paint Once it is dry • Paintbrush add other • Scissors colours, like • Thick felt tip pen black for an orca, grey for a Use the felt tip pen to humpback whale mark where to cut out or blue for a the whale. You might like blue whale! to draw a template for the dorsal fin and tail Don’t forget to flukes on paper first. add eyes and a mouth! Ask an adult to cut out Finally you can the whale and sand down fill the whale any rough edges with with soil and sandpaper. add plants or seeds!

Porpoise Protectors: DISCOVERY Spot the difference and colour in! What two items don’t belong in this scene? ______Find all eight differences in the Which sea creatures can you spot? below pictures and ______colour them in! ______COLOUR A WHALE OR DOLPHIN

HUMPBACK WHALE