Shark Cookie Cutter Painting with Q-Tip & Watercolors

We love shark week and it is always fun to do new shark projects for it! Today we have a simple shark painting that kids can do!

You can easy to follow steps plus you are using a cookie cutter to make it easier!

And you will have a wonderful shark painting for kids!

Shark Cookie Cutter Painting with Q-tip & Watercolors - a fun painting activity that kids of different ages can do. It is a fun way to work on colors and fine motor painting with q-tips and watercolors - 3Dinosaurs.com

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This is s great addition to the shark activities on the site.

It is always fun to do new painting activities. This shark painting with cookie cutters is so much fun! Plus there are so many great shark books you can read. We have enjoyed The Ultimate Book of Sharks. It has so much you can learn about sharks!

This shark painting project is a great mix of watercolor and painting with q-tips and cookie cutters.

What you need to make your Shark Painting

How we made the Shark Painting

These are all the steps we used to make the shark cookie cutter painting. You can also find suggestions for changing this up for different ages.

Draw a Circle in the Center of the Watercolor Paper

You start by drawing a circle in the center. This is super easy this is the area we will leave white.

Now if you have younger kids you might want to draw the circle and do several of rings out to make the colors of blue in the watercolors.

Watercolor Paint with Shades of Blue Paint

You start painting outside of the circle that you draw. You start with the lightest watercolor blue for the first.

You can see how we kept outside the circle in the middle

Then you work out and adding the different colors of blue. If you have younger kids you can draw a circle mentioned above for where the different colors of blue go.

Also if you are worried about painting the table you can put paper under the painting. But I’ll tell you we use a magic eraser to clean up the paint.

Paint the Black Sharks on the Paper

You place the shark cookie cutter on the paper. You can start with the big or small cookie cutter. It does not matter which you do first. You want to make sure to hold it as still as you can.

Then you use the q-tip to paint inside the cookie cutter. I love the q-tip for the fine motor they get.

You can see how fun the shark looks after you paint it.

A fun tip is that is the shark does not look all filled out you can do a touch up paint after you remove the cookie cutter.

Then you move on to the next shark! You can put as many or as few sharks as you want!

Other Shark Ideas Without Painting

If you love the sharks but don’t like the idea of using cookie cutters. Check out the ocean animal craft with free templates. It has a great shark template you can print off and use. Plus a few other ocean animals as well.

A Look at the final Shark Painting

Shark Cookie Cutter Painting with Q-tip & Watercolors - a fun painting activity that kids of different ages can do. It is a fun way to work on colors and fine motor painting with q-tips and watercolors - 3Dinosaurs.com