Color by Number Shark

Color by number: Great white shark

Color each square by its number. Squares with no number stay white.

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To color on screen, choose a color in the key, then tap the squares.

How it works

This color by number shark set has five kinds of shark: a great white, a hammerhead, a whale shark, a sawshark and a thresher shark. With them are a fin above the waves, open jaws and a megalodon tooth.

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Shark pictures to color by number, told apart by shape and markings

The Great white shark is dark on top with a white belly. The Hammerhead shark is seen from above, so its wide head shows. The Whale shark has pale spots and a blunt head, the Thresher shark a tail as long as its body, and the Sawshark a long snout edged with teeth.

Megalodon color by number: the tooth

Megalodon is extinct and its name means big tooth, so the megalodon worksheet here is the Megalodon tooth: a big black fossil tooth with a brown root beside a small white one. The easy grid takes 3 crayons, yellow, brown and black, and 137 squares.

Blue is in seven of the eight easy keys, every one but the Megalodon tooth.
The easy Thresher shark is the purple one: 30 purple squares, with a tail as long as its body.

Questions and answers

Which sharks are in the set?

Five: Great white shark, Hammerhead shark, Whale shark, Sawshark and Thresher shark. The other three pictures are a Fin above the waves, Open jaws seen from the front and a Megalodon tooth.

How do you color a shark when the crayon box has no gray?

On the easy grids the great white and the whale shark are black on top with white bellies, the thresher is purple, the hammerhead brown and the sawshark orange. The detailed grids add gray, and every shark but the sawshark is gray there.

Is the whale shark a whale?

No. It is a shark, and the largest fish alive today. On the easy grid it is black with white spots, and a small yellow fish swims under it.

All 8 pictures

Big sharks 3

Great white shark A great white shark swimming to the right in a blue sea: black on top, with its belly left white, a tall back fin and a red mouth. On the detailed grid the sea is light blue over blue, the shark is gray on top and it has a black eye, gill slits and white teeth. A great white is grayish on top with a white underside. Easy: 3 colors, 129 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 521 squares to color.
Thresher shark A purple thresher shark swimming to the right in a blue sea: a white belly, a black eye and a tail as long as its body sweeping up behind it, with two small yellow fish below. On the detailed grid the sea is light blue over blue, the shark is gray with gill slits and the fish have orange marks. A thresher shark's scythe-like tail can be as long as its body. Easy: 4 colors, 136 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 545 squares to color.
Whale shark A whale shark swimming to the left in a blue sea: a long black body with white spots, a flat back, a blunt head with a wide mouth at the very front, a white belly and a small yellow fish below it. On the detailed grid the sea is light blue over blue, the shark is gray with rows of pale spots, the mouth is a black line and two yellow fish have orange marks. The whale shark is the biggest fish alive today. Easy: 3 colors, 125 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 524 squares to color.

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Hammerhead shark A brown hammerhead shark seen from above in a blue sea: a wide flat head with a black eye at each end, two side fins and a forked tail. On the detailed grid the sea is light blue with white bubbles and the shark is gray with a brown stripe down its back. A hammerhead's head is flattened and stretched sideways into a T shape. Easy: 3 colors, 144 squares to color. Detailed: 4 colors, 566 squares to color.
Sawshark An orange sawshark swimming to the right over yellow sand in a blue sea, its long snout edged with white teeth, with a black eye. On the detailed grid the sea is light blue, the back has brown marks and the sand has orange specks. A sawshark has a long, saw-like snout edged with sharp teeth. Easy: 4 colors, 140 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 563 squares to color.

Fin, jaws and tooth 3

Fin above the waves A black shark fin cutting through blue waves with white foam, under a yellow sun. On the detailed grid the sky is light blue and the fin is gray with a black back edge. Easy: 3 colors, 81 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 549 squares to color.
Megalodon tooth A big black fossil tooth with a notched brown root lying on yellow sand, with a small white shark tooth beside it for size. On the detailed grid the big tooth has a gray shine, the small tooth has a gray root and the sand has orange specks. Megalodon is an extinct shark whose name means big tooth. Easy: 3 colors, 137 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 558 squares to color.
Open jaws A shark seen from the front with its mouth wide open: a black head in a blue sea, white eyes, a red mouth and white teeth above and below. On the detailed grid the sea is light blue, the head is gray, the eyes have black pupils, the throat is black and the tongue is pink. Easy: 3 colors, 134 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 538 squares to color.

How this list was compiled: Our own pixel pictures, drawn square by square for this site on 12 by 12 and 24 by 24 grids in October 2026. Nothing is traced, scanned or copied from clip art, no picture shows a brand or a logo, and none shows a character from a film, show, book or game. The one fact in each shark's description was checked against Wikipedia in October 2026 (text under CC BY-SA 4.0, read for the facts and not copied), and the color and square counts were counted from the finished grids. Licence: own work