Shark Week Crafts and Activities for Kids
Do you love Shark Week? We do! My husband says that the newer Shark Weeks aren’t as good as the older ones, but my kids still enjoy it. And like most things, I try to do an all-around, multi-sensory activities for an event. In other words, when it’s Shark Week, we don’t just watch TV.
We read shark books, do shark crafts, do shark lesson plans to go with skills we are reinforcing at home, have shark snacks and my boys love it. Here are the best Shark Themed Crafts and Activities I could find on Pinterest.
When is Shark Week?
At the time this is being published, Shark Week 2019 was not announced. In past years, it usually starts the 3rd Sunday or July. Or somewhere around there. Here is the official kids Shark Week page on Discovery website.
If I didn’t link to instructions for a project, it’s because I couldn’t find them. Only the picture was available. I figured some of you crafty types could either figure it out or modify it.
Shark-themed Snacks
- Gummy Sharks make a great treat as a reward!
- Shark Cookies (cute, they added a surfer to them)
- Shark Cupcakes
- Shark Cake Pops
Shark Crafts and Coloring Pages
- Coloring pages for shark week
- Paper shark with teeth
- Felt shark puppets
- DIY printable Shark Puppet
- Shark made out of glue paint
- Paper plate shark craft
- A shark made out of paper towel or toilet paper roll
- Video tutorial on making a shark craft out of craft sticks (popsicle sticks)
Preschool Shark Activities
- Activities for preschoolers with a shark theme: counting, sight words, etc.
- Paper plate shark craft
- Shark craft with printable to cut out (suggested age is kindergarten)
- Painted shark with instructions from Crayola (pictured below)
- Shark made out of a clothespin-Here is a shark and whale clothespin craft, but I cannot find the original source with the instructions. The picture is pretty self explanatory though. (image above)
- Shark made out of either paper cups or clay pots
Shark Songs and Printables
- Funny Shark Song Video
- Ocean Theme
- Great White Shark
- Great White Shark Pictures and Information (NAT GEO Kids)
- Shark Memory Game
- Flipper Frenzy (An inexpensive educational game by Smart Step)
- Top 10 Shark Facts for Kids
- Shark Children’s Books
- Shark Coloring Pages
- Machine Embroidery Pattern 1 (.JEF file in ZIP format)
- Machine Embroidery Pattern 2 (.JEF file in ZIP format)
- Shark Printable Posters
- Arrange the Tiles Puzzle
- Crossword Puzzle
- Cryptogram
- Maze
- Word Scramble
- Word Search
More themed activities for Family Fun:
- Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids
- Coloring Pages for Adults and Teens
- Fun Easy Snowman Crafts
