Paper Plate Shark Craft
A cute shark craft for kids to make.
Yield: 1 shark
Cost: $5
Materials
- Paper Plates
- Paper Towel Tube
- Blue Acrylic Paint
- Large Googly Eyes
- Blue Cardstock
- Red Paper
- White marker
- Paint Brush I prefer using sponge paintbrushes. They cover a wider area than most hair brushes.
- Glue
Instructions
- Paint one half of the first paper plate blue.
- Paint the entire paper towel tube blue. Set aside to dry.
- Cut the second paper plate in half. Paint the outer edge of one half with blue, leaving the center white.
- Once dry, glue the painted half plate (with the white center) over the unpainted half of the whole plate
- Cut a wide, grinning mouth shape out of red construction paper.
- Glue the red mouth over the white area of the half plate.
- Use a white marker to draw sharp teeth on the red mouth.
- Cut one pointed fin (for the top) and two curved fins (for the sides) from blue paper or another plate.
- Glue the pointed fin to the back/top edge of the full plate (above the shark’s head).
- Glue the two curved fins to the underside of the plate near the mouth.
- Glue the painted paper towel tube horizontally across the middle back of the full plate—this will act as the shark's hammerhead.
- Finish by gluing large googly eyes or paper eyes to both ends of the paper tube