12 Projects for World Turtle Day

Today is World Turtle Day. Why not celebrate turtles by making your own crafty turtle craft project? You can use a variety of household and craft items to make a collection of fun and unique turtles for yourself and everyone else. These kids crafts are a great for lesson plans and turtle based learning activities in the classroom or homeschool.

Looking for more activities with Turtles? Check out these Turtle themed Kids books.

1 – Use a garden glove to make a turtle puppet.

2 – This Hatching Turtle Craft is easy to make.

3 – Make a Paper Mache Patchwork Turtle

4 – Create a simple Paper Plate Turtle.

5 – Make a simple Tissue Paper Turtle.

6 – Recycling is fun when you make a Turtle Bank.

7 – Make this amazing Turtle Mosaic.

8 – Craft a cute, little Walnut Shell Turtle.

9 – Make a fast and easy Bowl Turtle Craft.

10 – Use a couple of loops to make this Easy Paper Strip Turtle.

11 – Use an egg carton to make this Turtle Craft.

12 – Use craft foam to make a Floating Bottle Cap Turtle.

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Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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