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The artwork in the book is beautiful! The little sea otter says goodnight to everyone in the sea before she goes to sleep. Young readers will have a good time picking out and naming all of the animals! At the end of the story, the mama otter wraps up little sea otter in kelp. When reading, I thought, that's a cute touch-- but I doubt sea otters actually do that. Turns out they do! (Marine Mammal Center- Sea Otter)
I could not pass up this great book and science tid-bit! I needed to make a craft that was equally adorable and fun.
CRAFT: Goodnight Sea Otter
I drew a template of a sea otter and printed copies on card stock. The paper the otter is printed on needs to be sturdy so that the tissue paper can wrap around.
The kids should color the otter however they like and cut out. I had pre-cut strips of tissue paper in different shades of green. I gave each child three strips! We glued them onto the back of the colored otter with a glue stick.
At this point baby otter is ready to be wrapped up to sleep!!
