The ocean's unsung hero - and a genuinely surprising mask choice that always gets a reaction! Our printable prawn mask is for the kids who love to pick something nobody else has thought of. With those long antennae, jointed legs and elegant curved body, prawns are actually rather beautiful creatures, and this mask does them justice. Perfect for ocean school plays, sea habitats classroom projects, World Book Day, birthday parties, and seafloor imaginative adventures.

The prawn is one of those choices that marks a child out as genuinely curious about the natural world - and there's far more to a prawn's biology than most people realise. A surprising mask with surprisingly interesting facts. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Prawns!

Prawns have their hearts in their heads - or more precisely, in the cephalothorax, the fused head-and-thorax section. Their circulatory and nervous systems are arranged very differently to vertebrates.
The mantis shrimp (a type of large prawn-like crustacean) has the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom - 16 types of colour receptors compared to humans' 3, and can see ultraviolet, infrared and polarised light simultaneously.
Prawns are semi-transparent when alive - the pink colour only develops when they're cooked, because heat breaks down a protein that was masking the pink astaxanthin pigment in their shell.
They can swim both forwards and backwards - forwards by paddling with their swimmerets, backwards by a rapid curling of the abdomen called the tail flip escape response.
Pistol shrimp can generate a bubble that reaches 8,000°C - they snap their claw so fast it creates a cavitation bubble that briefly reaches the temperature of the sun's surface before collapsing with a loud bang that stuns prey.

Printable Prawn Mask

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