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Aug 12

Shark Week!!!

Posted on August 12, 2020 at 10:05 AM by Tiffany Miller

Hello all you Sharks and Minnows!!!!

Shark week is a week that many people from all over look forward to and enjoy each year. Shark Week originally premiered on July 17, 1988. Featured annually, in July or early August, it was originally devoted to conservation efforts and correcting misconceptions about sharks. Over time, it grew in popularity and became a hit on the Discovery Channel.

Sharks are incredible!! Weighing in up to 500 to 5,000 pounds, sharks are one of the oceans to predators. Sharks have thousands of teeth. Most sharks have 5 rows of teeth, and can have as many as 3000 teeth at once! It's a good thing sharks never run out of teeth, as they lose up to 100 per day. 

In honor of hark week, I thought I'd share some fun idea to celebrate the week with. 


Grinning Shark Cookies

Round candy molds make it easy to transform your favorite cookie into a candy-coated grinning shark. Just fill the molds with melted blue candy and press a cookie into the melted candy. Alternatively, you can dip cookies in melted candy and place them on a piece of parchment paper to firm. Use melted candy to pipe fin and tail shapes on the paper, and attach them to the cookie using more melted candy. Attach two black bead sprinkles for the eyes, and pipe red melted candy into half-moon shapes for the mouths. Pipe white melted candy onto the red candy to create 'teeth' for a sinister smile.

Shark Tooth Snack Mix

Ordinary salted popcorn is given a shark-themed makeover with drizzled white chocolate, crunchy blue sprinkles and candy-coated chocolate pieces. Dip cone-shaped corn snacks into white chocolate and let dry before adding them as 'shark teeth' to the mix. This treat is fun to eat while watching shark week!!!

Crafts:
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There are lots of fun craft ideas that you can do with everyday stuff around your house. You can use a old tissue box to make a shark with teeth. Next make some fish out of cardboard that is heavy enough to throw. Now you have a game!! Just throw the fish to see if you can make them land in the sharks mouth. the most fish win. Ou could make the fish two different types of colors to have two different teams. there are lots of other amazing ideas out there to make some fantastic stuff. Here is a great link to help give you some ideas. https://heyletsmakestuff.com/shark-week-shark-paper-crafts/

We love celebrating Shark week at the Emporia Rec Center. So much so that Swim Jen and Taylor have a special helper this week. He's a shark named Finn and he has been walking around town handing out goodies and free passes to swim in our indoor pool. Today he will be in Merchant street, so make sure you go out and take some pictures with him and tag us on our ERC Facebook page. Whatever you do to celebrate shark week this week, make sure you do it together and have fun doing it. Remember fish are friends, not food : ) 
Have a great day everyone
Tiffany
Program Supervisor