It’s Shark Week!! While I love to watch special upon special, airing on Discovery, this year is a little different because I have a shark lover of my own now! From the Octonauts to the bite of the Great White, Red can’t get enough of undersea creatures. In order to maximize the fun of shark week, but not to be glued to the TV for hours everyday, I did a roundup of some fun shark recipes, games and crafts to keep chomping at the fun! How do you celebrate shark week?
1. DIY Shark Pallet Wall Art : If you are in need of some Shark Wall Art, try this homemade pallet art from Sand and Sisal. If I knew my way around a saw, I’d make some for Red!
2. Don’t Wake the Shark Matching Game: If you have a toddler like I do, try printing out or creating your own matching game themed around fish and sharks. The goal of the game? Match all the fish WITHOUT waking up the shark (matching those two shark pieces). Laminate and toss in a bag for portable shark fun!
3. Shark Tooth Cheese (and other Shark party ideas) like the Shark Snow globe: Love the Day has some fabulous ideas for hosting a shark party. My favorite was the little bowl of “shark teeth” cheese triangles and the homemade Shark Snow globe. You may have seen things like this around Christmas on Pinterest.
4. Paper Plate Shark Jaws: This is a classic! Cut a paper plate into the shape of shark jaws with great big teeth for a biting playtime!
5. Homemade Shark Costume: Red would love a homemade shark costume! Turn a hoodie that’s a little worn (or new if you have a shark lover) into a shark! Add felted teeth, great big eyes and even a dorsal fin for extra fun.
6. Watermelon Shark Fruit Salad This excellent tutorial by PopSugar will help you turn that extra summer watermelon into a shark fruit salad. Do you dare stick your spoon in there?!
7. Crafty Shark Hat : How cute is this little hat by ModCloth’s blog? Made from construction paper, it suits all ages in your family. Maybe you should see who can wear it the longest!
8. Shark Week Drinking Game (with printout): Now, for the adults out there, I found a Shark Week Drinking Game. Created by The Clueless Girl’s Guide, you can print out your “rules” list for your party guests and sip your way into a Mako Shark evening. Just be sure to imbibe responsibly!
Great ideas,I really like the watermelon shark.We have watched a few shark programs on TV the last few days.
Love all these fun crafts related to sharks. My favorite is the shark hats!
I LOVE shark week (Started watching last night). But never thought about making a party out of it! With this ideas I think I’m gonna try it! I can’t wait this is gonna be awesome!
Thanks for all of the great shark activities! I’ve pinned them! Happy Shark Week!
So fun! I think I am the only one who does not really celebrate shark week. I might if I had cable and didn’t have to find someplace to stream it.
We don’t have cable, so don’t really get into shark week. However, I love the shark watermelon. I’ve seen that around this summer and think it’s really fun!
I am so excited that it’s shark week. We look forward to it each year.
LOVE Shark week! Even though it just fuels my fear of sharks even more!
Super cute ways to celebrate the awesomeness of #SharkWeek!
How fun! My boys would love these!
This is a great round up! We should play the drinking game at the beach:)
That shark hat is stinking cute! I love Shark Week – they scare me, but I love watching them.
I’m not a huge fan of shark week but I love that you rounded up a whole slew of shark things to do. Fun!
This is a cute roundup of things to do in honor of shark week! That shark week drinking game is a funny one!
These are all so cute and fun! I LOVE Shark Week! My husband and I might have to try that drinking game!
I have never celebrated Shark Week before, but that drinking game sounds fun! Party at YOUR house! LOL 🙂
My son is addicted to shark week, he hasn’t stopped watching it all day, I broke down and agreed to skip the playground today lol these are some great ideas that he will love!
OH yeah, I forgot we have a shark shirt until I saw this post. Ha! Going to bust that out of little man’s closet, right now. 🙂
Fun stuff for shark week!
Love that shark hat. Lots of great Shark ideas
Not a shark fan or shark week fan but those shark hats are key-ute!
You had me at Shark Week Drinking game. Great list! I have kids who live for shark week and one kid who is literally phobic of sharks. Tricky.
We have never watched Shark Week. But these look like fun ideas for anytime!
I want to make the shark waterlemon! I also like the drinking game… pretty funny.
That Shark Week drinking game looks very interesting. Too bad we only have Netflix in this house. I feel like I am really missing out!