Clark the Shark Craft | Shark Activities | Think Before You Chomp SEL Sorting

Help children learn to pause, think, and make kinder choices with this hands-on shark social-emotional learning craft! This fun Shark Week activity is a meaningful companion activity to use after reading Clark the Shark or during lessons about friendship, behaviour, and self-control.

Students sort behaviour fish into two simple spaces:

• “CHOMP! Not a Good Choice” — the shark’s giant mouth
• “Good Choices Swim Here!” — the colourful coral reef

Children cut and paste fish showing everyday choices such as sharing, waiting, using kind words, pushing, yelling, asking for help, and taking turns. The oversized shark mouth makes the lesson visual, memorable, and very hard to ignore—much like a real shark with opinions.

Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and special education classrooms.

This resource includes:

• Large shark craft template with giant mouth
• Coral reef sorting area
• Good-choice and not-good-choice behaviour fish
• “I Think Before I Chomp” heading
• “Good Choices Swim Here” heading
• Simple student-friendly sorting activity
• Colour and black-and-white printing options

Great for:

• Shark Week
• Social-emotional learning lessons
• Friendship activities
• Self-control and impulse-control lessons
• Behaviour discussions
• Read-aloud companion activities
• Morning meeting or classroom calm-down lessons

Please note: This is an original shark-themed resource designed as a companion activity for teachers using shark-themed books. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Clark the Shark or its creators.

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