Paper Plate Shark Craft (original) (raw)
Dive into fun with a paper plate shark craft! Create jaws-dropping art with step-by-step instructions and simple supplies. Get crafty now!
Let's dive right into this paper plate shark craft this is sure to be a hit with kids of all ages.
Do your kids love sharks - the graceful ocean predators? Do you want to help them create their adorable and fun shark craft? Don't worry. I'm here to guide you through a step-by-step shark craft for kids of all ages.
This easy-peasy craft is a great way to let your child show their love for these fascinating creatures during shark week. This year, in 2023, shark week will fall between the 11th and the 18th of July. So, let the blue and gray party begin!
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Why Make a Shark Craft?
Why should you make this adorable shark craft? Sharks deserve some human love. Since we can't love them up close, the craft shall do!
Plus, crafting is so much fun. It's a great family activity. You can also make it enjoyable by putting on the baby shark song or playing a shark game. For example, you can make a matching game by drawing different sharks and matching them to a card with the same image.
Moreover, all the cutting, coloring, and gluing activities can help them refine their hand-eye coordination and develop better fine motor skills.
Since this craft requires the use of paper plates and colored papers, little kids can learn about different textures. They'll also see how painting/coloring on different mediums gives different results.
When I do animal craft work with my kids, I make sure to tell them some fun facts about these exciting creatures. Find some fun facts about sharks below.
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Fun Sharks Facts
- Most sharks don't attack humans. All the more reasons to love them.
- Sharks have a fantastic vision which makes hunting easy for them.
- Sharks are older than dinosaurs. They have been around for more than 400 million years.
- Sharks don't have bones. Their skeletons are all cartilage, just like our noses.
- People in China, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam eat shark fins in soups.
- Shark Week is an annual week of all things shark on the Discovery Channel that happens each Summer in July or early August.
Shark Crafts Ideas
You'll find a lot of easy shark crafts on my kids' activities blog. You can make shark binoculars with cardboard, cutouts of shark’s fin and eyes, toilet paper rolls, and old newspaper.
Also, you can make a shark headband with paper plates, a stapler, and googly eyes. Little ones can also draw a shark tooth necklace.
If you're feeling extra inventive, then why not make a shark cootie catcher? Cootie catchers are a great way to learn about shark anatomy. You can use a free printable template for a fun activity.
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Free Shark Crafts
I have created a free shark template for all the creative crafty people out there. Use it to make your shark craft full of lots of fun.
The craft project I shared has nine easy steps. Start by printing the template and cutting out all the pieces carefully. Paste these cutouts on different colored papers. Eyes on black, body on blue, and smile on red. Paste the large pieces on a paper plate. The next six steps are all about adding details. Stick googly eyes, give the sharp teeth a white outline, add fins and tail, and finish off by defining the nostrils with a black marker.
I hope you enjoyed the crafty ride. Create something cute on your next craft day, and have fun.
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Shark Paper Plate Craft Supplies
- Shark Craft Templates (download end of this post)
- Black Construction Paper
- White Cardstock
- Light blue Construction Paper
- Red Construction Paper
- Paper plate
- Scissor
- Craft Glue or Glue Sticks
- Black marker
How To Make A Shark Using A Paper Plate?
Start by downloading the shark template that you grab at the bottom of the post.
Cut out each of the items from the template.
Trace the small V shapes out of black paper, the smile shape out of red paper, and the fins on blue paper.
The eyes and the smile with teeth can remain on the white template paper. A hint to cut the inside of the teeth out is to poke the end of the scissors through the middle of the section you want to cut out and then cut towards the edges and along the line of the template.
Shark Head
Start by grabbing the paper plate, the large blue piece, the red smile, the teeth, and the glue.
Glue the blue "shades to the top of the paper plate. Glue the teeth on top of the red smile, and then glue the shark’s mouth to the bottom of the plate.
Shark Fins
Next, grab the fins and the black v's, and the glue.
Glue the black pieces to the end of each shark fin. Place two black small triangles at the two ends of the shape of the tail fin too.
Shark Body
Grab all the different parts of the shark to assemble the shark.
Glue the fins to the back of the paper plate shark's face. The shark's dorsal fin (top fin) is glued to the top of my shark. The two pectoral fins (bottom fins) can go to each side of the bottom of the shark's face. Last, glue the tail off the back and to the left of the paper plate.
Next, you can draw the eyes on the two shark eye templates. Or if you have googly eyes, you can glue those on there.
Glue the eyes onto the shark's face.
The last step is to draw two small lines in the nose area as nostrils.
Viola, you have your own sharks!
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Download Free Shark Craft Template
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Active Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Difficulty easy
Materials
- Shark Craft Templates
- Black paper
- White paper
- Sky blue paper
- Red paper
- Paper plate
- Glue
- Black marker
Instructions
- Start by downloading the shark template that you grab at the bottom of the post.
- Cut out each of the items from the template.
- Trace the small V shapes out of black paper, the smile shape out of red paper, and the fins on blue paper.
- The eyes and the smile with teeth can remain on the white template paper. A hint to cut the inside of the teeth out is to poke the end of the scissors through the middle of the section you want to cut out and then cut towards the edges and along the line of the template.
- Start by grabbing the paper plate, the large blue piece, the red smile, the teeth, and the glue.
- Glue the blue "shades to the top of the paper plate. Glue the teeth on top of the red smile, and then glue both to the bottom of the paper plate.
- Next, grab the fins and the black v's, and the glue.
- Glue the black pieces to the end of the fins.
- Grab all the different parts of the shark to assemble the shark.
- Glue the fins to the back of the paper plate shark's face. The shark's dorsal fin (top fin) is glued to the top part of the back of the shark. The two pectoral fins (bottom fins) can go to each side of the bottom of the shark's face. Last, glue the tail off the back and to the left of the paper plate.
- Next, you can draw the eyes on the two shark eye templates. Or if you have googly eyes, you can glue those on there.
- Glue the eyes onto the shark's face.
- The last step is to draw two small lines in the nose area as nostrils.
- Viola, you have an awesome Paper Plate Shark!
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