Salaric

For our Cub pack we made up a large Shark Infested Puzzle Solving Game but of corse that means we needed some sharks so we set about making some!

Need:

corrigated cardboard – an old cardboard box will do nicely!

Sturdy scissors or a stanly knife

Tape

Black Sack, paint or paper – if using paper you will need glue as well

Cut out the fin shape – this is two curves making up a sort of curvy tapering triangle shape – think rose thorn. Then bend the bottom inch or around 2.5 cm of the fins base up to create a ridge for sticking it too the base. If you are having trouble folding the cardboard then use a metal ruler and a knife to score but not cut all the way through, this will make the cardboard easier to fold.

Cut a rectangle to fit the fin – this will be the base and as such you can scale the shark fins to what ever size you want though bigger fins will need thicker card and smaller fins thiner card.

Tape the fin to the base.

Cut a black bin liner up into panels you can wrap around and tap to the fin.

We used clear cellotape for this and thick green packing tape for the structure of the fin.

And you have a shark fin ready to play! If you paint and vanish it or use a glue to attack the bag then the fin becomes waterproof too! (well to a certain level!)

Here it is at the village hall awaiting the fin fun!