Baby Seal
Toddler · 2–3A round baby seal sitting up on the sand with enormous dark eyes, little flippers, and whiskers. The body is a single soft shape with very few interior lines, which makes it one of the gentlest pages in the collection for a two- or three-year-old. Coloring a baby seal is a natural way to talk about animals that live both in the water and on land, about how thick fur and blubber keep a seal warm in a cold sea, and about how seal pups are looked after. Print it for the table, or color it online with the paint bucket.
A smooth, rounded shape
A baby seal is about as simple an outline as the traced pages get — a rounded body, flippers and a face with very large eyes. There is almost no detail to get wrong, which makes it a good first traced page for a three-year-old.
Like the snowman and the penguin, a lot of it is meant to stay pale, so it is another page where restraint is the right answer.
Staying warm in cold water
A thick layer of fat called blubber keeps a seal warm in water that would kill a person in minutes. You can show what insulation does with a bag of butter and a bowl of cold water — a hand inside the bag stays warm, and children find the demonstration genuinely convincing.
Frequently asked questions
- How do seals stay warm?
- A thick layer of blubber under the skin. You can demonstrate insulation with a hand inside a bag of fat in cold water — it stays warm while the other hand does not.
- What age is this page for?
- Three to six. Simple rounded shapes and very little fine detail.
