Shark Hat Craft for Kids
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This Shark Hat Craft is a simple hat that is so much fun. It’s such a cute summer craft for kids and perfect for an Ocean Craft or Shark Week Party. Easy to make and so cute.
Shark Hat Craft
This is such a cute craft to make with the kids. It is perfect for a shark-themed birthday party, ocean-themed party, or under-the-sea event. Add even more excitement to this craft by making Shark Attack Drinks or this Summer Shark Drink. Add a Watermelon Shark Fruit Salad to round out the fun food ideas for your shark day.
My boys loved this hat when they were younger. It appeared most recently when my college-age student used it for Under the Sea week at a camp she is volunteering at this summer.
Supplies Needed for this DIY Shark Hat
- A Visor – Blue
- Stiff-white felt
- Google eyes
- Hot glue & hot glue gun
- Scissors
Instructions on How to Make a Shark Hat
(Find full supplies and instructions in the craft printable below)
- Going across the long section of the white felt, cut out a 2-inch wide strip of a zig-zag teeth pattern
- Using your blue foam sheet cut-out arched eyebrows, and the shark’s fin
- Cut an arch into the bottom of the fin – so it fits comfortably onto your child’s head
- Cut two more strips of blue foam matching the arch of the fin and the length
- Flip the visor over to the bottom, and glue the shark’s teeth with the hot glue across the bottom of the visor
- Cut a little slit into the top/middle of the visor, and slide the shark fin into the slit, secure with glue.
- Add the two arched strips to the bottom of the fin
- Cut a slit into the strips so it fits over the top of the visor
glue to secure
Make a Paper Plate Fish Bowl with under-the-sea and shark stickers to decorate it
Shark Sun Catcher: design a sun catcher that looks like a shark out of gray and blue tissue paper in the shape of a shark, Shark Rock Painting: Find oblong and smooth rocks to paint gray and draw eyes, eyebrows, and sharp teeth; Shark T-shirts: Use fabric markers to create a shark fin and ocean waves on a t-shirt
Shark-themed sensory Bottle with fun glitter and shark-shaped glitter confetti, Shark Paper Plate: make a shark paper plate by painting a paper plate gray or blue and decorating it with a fin and teeth
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Shark Hat Craft Printable
Shark Hat Craft for Kids
Equipment
- glue Use a low temp glue gun or use fabri-tac glue which is extremely tacky and dries quick and stron
- Scissors
Materials
- 1 blue visor
- 1 piece foam paper blue
- 1 piece white felt
- 1 piece stiff blue felt
- 2 large Google eyes
Instructions
- Going across the long section of the white felt, cut out a 2-inch wide strip with a zig-zag teeth pattern
- Using your blue foam sheet cut-out arched eyebrows, and a shark's fin
- Cut an arch into the bottom of the fin – so it fits comfortably onto your child's head. You may have to adjust it once you set place it on
- Cut 2 more strips of blue foam matching the arch of the fin and the length
- Flip the visor over to the bottom, and glue the shark's teeth with the hot glue across the bottom of the visor so the teeth are pointing outward
- Cut a little slit into the top/middle of the visor, and slide the shark fin into the slit, secure with glue
- .Add the two arched strips to the bottom of the fin. This adds support to the fin so it won't flop over
- Cut a slit into the strips so it fits over the top of the visor and secure them with glue
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