Sea Otter Mamas

Angel's Sea Otter

A Sea Otter’s Life

Cute little furballs – so fuzzy yet sleek.
   What do they do all day – let’s take a peek!
Life in the ocean, thick fur keeps them warm
   Good grooming’s a must, it works like a charm.
Diving for sea urchins, starfish and crabs,
   Abalone and barnacles, mollusks and squid.
On the belly, a smorgasbord layout - so good!
   Tap-tap-tap with a rock cracks open that food.
Naptime comes often, wrapped up in green kelp
   Anchored from floating away, a great help!
Rafts of sea otters with flipper-like feet,
   Rolling and playing, keeping paws dry and neat.
Mama keeps pup on her belly so warm,
   She dives and his tireless cries call her home.
This is what sea otters do every day.
   These cute little furballs of Monterey Bay.

Galilea's Sea Otter

Here's another Oceans & Seashores-themed Summer Art Camp art project! These Sea Otter Mamas and their little pups are resting in beds of kelp along the California coast. This fun mixed media project helped kids learn more about this precarious species that was once hunted almost to extinction for its magnificent pelt.  

Our young artists learned to appreciate these amazing little animals and how they have managed to reestablish themselves along the California coast (with the help of humans dedicated to their preservation, such as the Friends of the Sea Otter and the Monterey Bay Aquarium).

Mikaeyla's Sea Otter

Campers used oil pastels to draw their mama otters and to depict their cute little faces, furry bodies, front paws, and flipper-like feet. Then we cut them out, created little pups from a scrap of the same paper, and bent up the paws to hold the pup and keep it safe. 

We made a nice length of kelp for our sea otters to float in (or on), folded up their flipper feet, and added some glue dots the the back of the pups for additional 3-D cuteness! Then we glued everything to our watery background and added a few ripples and waves.

Take a look at our previous post, Adorable Sea Otters, to see how older children created their Mama Sea Otters.