Easy shark coloring page with a smiling shark, ocean waves, bubbles, seaweed, and small fish.

Smiling Shark Gliding Through Bubbles

A wide-eyed shark swims past rising bubbles and tiny fish while wavy currents and seaweed fill the ocean around it.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Shark collection, made for ages 5–7 and drawn in a Standard style.

🎨 How to color it

Give the shark a cool blue-gray back, a pale cream belly, aqua waves, emerald seaweed, and sunny yellow tiny fish. Use chunky crayons or broad markers for the shark’s big body, then trace the bubble circles slowly so the white shine spots stay clean. Try making the water darker near the top waves and lighter around the shark, as if a secret glow is following it.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 39 zones and 5 colors, sized for kids. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

The story behind this coloring page

The Shark Who Found Hush — Under the kelp flats, Pip chased a hush. Not a splash, not a swish—hush. Read the full story →

Under the kelp flats, Pip chased a hush. Not a splash, not a swish—hush. It tickled his gills every time bubbles rose from the sand, silver and cold as moonlight. Pip wanted to know who was whispering before the tide carried the secret away.

He nudged a flat shell. Nothing. He sniffed a sleeping crab. Snap! Then a tiny fish pointed with her tail. “Try under the bubbles.” Pip pushed his nose into the soft sand, and pop-pop-pop—round moon-bubbles floated up, carrying the quiet songs of clams below.

Ever since then, shark pups follow bubble trails when they want to hear the sea’s smallest secrets. If you spot Pip between the bubbles, can you guess which one is humming hush?