Coloring
Otter Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The otter is the animal that floats on its back, and the page catches it doing exactly that: a smiling otter lying on the water with its paws up and a small shell held on its chest, its tail trailing, ripples curving around it, two round rocks poking out of the water and big puffy clouds behind.
The body is one long rounded shape for broad strokes, the face is a round head with whiskers to add, and the paws are four little pads to fill. The ripples are short curved lines to trace around the otter, and the clouds are big bumpy outlines, the easiest part of the page.
Ask why the otter holds the shell and how it stays afloat. Then trace the ripples together, and the page becomes the stroke practice a child asks to do again.
Skills Practiced
Fine Motor Skills
Animal Vocabulary
Pre-Writing Strokes
Shape Recognition
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Fill the otter first. The long body and the head in one colour, then the paws and the tail, then the little shell.
- Then the ripples. Every short curve around the otter. A finger first, then a crayon.
- Rocks and clouds last. The two rocks in the water, then the big clouds. Ask what the otter is looking at.