Otters Paint Valentine’s Day Artwork for Charity at New Hampshire Aquarium: Watch

A group of otters at a New Hampshire aquarium shows off their creative side.

Earlier this month, five Asian small-clawed otters — Harry, Teddy, Peanut, Jelly and Saco — created Valentine’s Day pictures for charity at the Living Shores Aquarium in Glen.

“Harry, Teddy, Peanut, Jelly and Saco worked diligently using their paws and otter-safe paint to create 10 unique pieces of art and 25 Ottergrams,” the facility wrote online. “Crafting offers a pack of otters a unique enriching activity to keep their minds occupied throughout the day.”

This year, fans can bid on the paintings created by the otters through an online auction that is open now until February 19 at 11:59 PM local time. All proceeds will go directly to the Tin Mountain Conservation Center, which is a nonprofit organization “providing educational programs … that encourage greater awareness and understanding of the natural environment,” according to its website.

The aquarium will also give fans a chance to win their very own Ottergram card. The winners of that competition will be chosen on February 20.

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The Valentine-themed moment from the Living Shores Aquarium came about after the facility shared a cute video of the resident otters celebrating Thanksgiving at the aquarium last year.

In the video, the otters can be seen sitting down to a holiday meal prepared by their caretakers, where classic Thanksgiving food items have been replaced with fish options that the animals have deemed safe to eat.

Instead of turkey, the animals dined on mahi-mahi with mussel sauce, and enjoyed a mixture of trout blood and gelatin instead of cranberry sauce.

The dessert was replaced by an otter pastry pie, finished with a sardine griddle, the aquarium added.

“We all decided to embrace the natural diet of the otters and try to change it to make it look like Thanksgiving food,” Stacy Gendron, chief otter keeper at Living Shores, told PEOPLE at the time, noting, “Everything they were served was part of their normal diet. or safe for them.”

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