This adorable Christmas-themed craft is based on the book Santa Shark by Mike Lowery. Your students will love designing and decorating a new Christmas sweater for Edgar using potato stamps and easy-to-find craft materials!   Using the provided templates, students will cut and assemble Edgar the shark. To decorate Edgar’s new sweater, we recommend using potato stamps with Christmas-themed shapes, such as gifts, ornaments, trees or stars. Simple circles, squares and rectangles can be drawn and cut by hand; however, using a cookie cutter can help to make clear outlines for more complicated shapes, such as Christmas trees or stars. If the sweaters were printed on white cardstock, we suggest providing red and green paint; however, if the sweaters were printed on coloured cardstock, provide white, silver or gold paint. In addition, the craft can be decorated with items, such as sparkly pipe cleaners, pom poms, sequins and cotton balls. The completed crafts can be displayed alongside the included banner!   This engaging resource includes:

1. Detailed instructions with a completed example.
2. Shark and sweater templates.
3. A colourful display banner.

  We recommend printing the templates on white or coloured cardstock. Young students may benefit from having the templates enlarged to A3.   Looking for more resources related to this book? Check out our Santa Shark Worksheets!   It's time to decorate those sweaters!