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How to Make a Sharknado for Your Shark Craft

 I have had an insane amount of fun this summer, but I always try to do something for Shark Week. This year I called it Shark Lab and we are making three crafts I have never done with the kids before. But for ME, I wanted a Sharknado. Inspired by this post , and I tried several different dish soaps and NONE of the tornadoes looked as good as they did in this lady's posts. She must have magic soap, but it really works! Then I went to three stores to find either plastic sharks that would be light enough to float and not just sink to the bottom of the jar and/or shrinky dink material (make my own damn sharks!) Both hunts were fail, so I made them myself using  a template I cannot find again. Sorry.  I flipped the images, cut them out, glued them together and then book-taped the hell out of them! Presto, waterproof. The jar needed something....so I made a small label with "Sharknado" bookended with some fancy orange chainsaws and voila! One Sharknado for th