Getting Smart about Sharks (Free Printables)

Is anyone out there a bigger fan than our family of SHARK WEEK? Probably not. Anyway, we did a thorough study of sharks and we had SO MUCH FUN! We have lessons, books, activities, a set of free printables and even a free game for you to play with your littles! You will all love it! Don’t forget to visit the links at the end of the post for more Shark Week ideas and printables!

Books About Sharks

We read about shark. Boy, did we read about sharks? Take a look below! Here is a list of some of the book we read and were awesome, educational and very informative.

4D Vision Great White Shark Anatomy Model Discovery Channel Sharkopedia: The Complete Guide to Everything Shark Shark Toy Animals (12 Count)LEGO, City, Deep Sea Starter Set (60091)

Shark Memory Game

After we read all about sharks, we played a memory game. I am so excited to have made this for my children and it is now a free printable card game for you. You can get it at the end of this post.

First, I downloaded and printed the set TWICE in color. After that, I laminated the two sheets with a thermal laminator. I cut the cards and we were ready to play!

We mixed up all the cards and placed them facedown on a mat. We then took turns turning over two cards at a time, trying to match the cards up. We played over and over. It was fun!

Shark Memory Card Game

Hark! A Shark!: All About Sharks (Cat in the Hat’s Accoutrements Shark Attack Porcelain Mug Blankie Tails Shark Blanket, Gray and Deep Blue Sharks (2D)

Shark Shadows Craft

After that fun game, we traced giant shark replicas and made their shadows. We had a bull shark, a hammerhead shark, a tiger shark, a whale shark and a blue shark.

We traced the shark on a large piece of white butcher paper. Then we used the dot markers to fill in the outline. Once dry, we placed the shark on top. It was easy and fun. They were calling out the part of the sharks and talked all about sharks as they were filling out the outlines of the shark shadows. The set of dot markers we used comes in a set of 6, even though only 4 are pictured.

Safari Ltd Wild Safari Sea Life Hammerhead Shark Safari Ltd Wild Safari Sea Life – Great White Shark Safari Ltd Wild Safari Sealife – Megamouth Shark – Rare Safari Ltd Wild Safari Sea Life Shark Ray Safari Ltd WS Sea Life Tiger Shark Safari Ltd Wild Safari Sealife – Bonnethead Shark – Realistic

Parts of a Shark

This is the most detailed and meticulous activity we did. This lesson really brought it home. We learned the parts of the shark. We learned this in two ways and one of them is a free printable for you to grab before you are done reading this post.

First, I printed the parts of the shark in color (all 3 pages and labels) and then laminated them with a thermal laminator. Then, we used the labeled picture of the shark to go over all the parts of the shark.

After we talked about all 10 parts, I showed Brother the unlabeled picture of the shark with the arrows. We named the parts and then used the labels to label all the parts. Brother looked at the labeled picture the first time, but then he labeled the parts of the shark on his own.

As the final “test,” he was able to label the parts of the shark using only the picture of the shark (the plain one with no names and no arrows). He was so excited to have no help labeling and he knew them all!