Ocean animals are a fun theme to get creative with during the summer, so make a fun paper shark pop-up card.
Making paper cards is fun and your kids will love it!
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If you’re celebrating shark week, you’re probably planning all kinds of shark activities and crafts. We hope you’ll add this shark pop-up card without a template to your crafting list, but we also have a cool shark pop-up card template – check it out here – tag template pop up shark.
Let’s get back to this issue.
This shark pop-up card is really special because you can hide anything you like in its mouth and it won’t chew.
Our shark is not like a real shark – it is a completely harmless creature despite its terrible teeth appearing everywhere.
How to make a shark pop-up card with paper
What you need:
- red paper
- blue paper
- pink paper
- white cardstock (recommended 16o gsm)
- drag
- black liner + pencil (we only used a black liner in this tutorial, but it’s better to also use a pencil so you can erase the mark from the white cardstock later)
- glue
- 3 circular objects of different sizes (large, medium and small)
- The ruler is circular
- colored pencils or markers
Be crafty!
Step-by-step instructions
A card
Take the largest circular object and draw a circle on red paper.
Cut out the circle with scissors.
Head
Take a medium-sized circular object and draw a circle on blue paper.
Cut out the circle with scissors.
Jaw
Draw a circle on white cardboard. Use the medium-sized circle object again.
We recommend using pencil instead of black eyeliner.
Draw a triangle outside the circle as shown in the picture. Make it 1 cm wide.
Continue drawing triangles around the circle. Those would be the teeth.
Cut a circle with your teeth. If you use a pencil to draw a circle on a white cover, erase the pencil marks to get a clean white cover.
The mouth
Take the smallest circular object and draw a circle on pink paper.
Cut out the circle with scissors.
Take the blue circle and fold it in half.
Apply some glue and attach the blue circle (folded in half) to the red circle.
Take white cardstock and divide it into two equal parts. (Don’t follow this step if you use pencil to draw).
Apply some glue to the two halves and stick them inside the blue folded circle, one half on the upper jaw and the other half on the lower jaw. Make sure that marks from the black liner do not show.
If you use a pencil to draw, simply fold the white circles with your teeth – no cutting required, then stick them inside your mouth.
The piece pops up
Take the pink circle and fold it in half.
Cut two parallel lines 1.5cm long where the fold is to create the pop-up piece. Press the square upward as shown in the picture.
Open the folded pink circle and push the pop-up piece from the back so it moves forward.
Now cut a pink rectangle for the rest of the pink paper.
Glue this rectangle to the back of the folded pink circle to cover the hole we made into the pop-up piece.
Make sure not to glue the middle of the rectangle with the hole so the pop-up piece doesn’t stick.
Apply some glue to the back of the pink paper…
… and stick it inside the mouth as shown in the picture.
Fin
Take some blue paper and fold it in half.
Open the folded paper and draw a fin on one side of it.
Fold the blue paper and use scissors to cut out the fins.
Add some glue to the back of the fin and stick it to the red circle (above the shark’s body – in the middle).
Take another piece of blue paper, fold it in half and draw a fin.
Use scissors to cut the fins, then cut along the fold to get two equal fins.
Glue the fins to both sides of the shark’s body.
Fish
Draw a random fish on white cardstock, color it with colored pencils or markers, then cut it out.
Stick the fish piece to the pop-up inside the mouth.
Eyes
Now, use a circular ruler and a black pencil to draw two shark eyes.
Cut out the eyes with scissors.
Apply some glue behind the eyes and attach them to the body.
Your paper shark pop-up card is complete.
Now close your mouth, then open it so you can see the fish pop up from inside.
You can also write a message inside the card (make it say “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” or anything else you want).
See you soon with more fun crafts.
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