Watermelon Crafts You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
We have been waiting and waiting for our first crop of watermelons to come out of the garden and they’re finally here! In honor of our first successful crop of home grown watermelons, we thought we’d do some watermelon crafts too!
Enjoy!
Paper Plate Watermelon Craft
Cut a paper plate in half. Paint the outer rim of the plate green and the rest of the plate red. Let dry. Cut out several tear drop shapes from black construction paper to make seeds. Glue seeds onto plate.
Watermelon Seed Collage Craft
Next time you eat a watermelon, save all the seeds for use in a collage. Just make sure that you put the seeds in a colander and rinse off all the stickiness first! My kids thought this idea was great fun… even my oldest!
Watermelon Slices Craft
Cut a cheap white paper plate into four equal pieces. Each piece will make the watermelon slice. Cut several squares of red and green tissue paper. Glue the tissue paper onto the paper plate wedge so that it looks like a watermelon slice. Let all the glue dry completely, then go back with a black marker and draw in the seeds.
Watermelon Napkin Holder - A very cute idea for doing something a little different with the basic watermelon craft. Younger kids might need a little help with this, but when they’re done they will have something that they can actually use. I love that!
Watermelon Beaded Safety Pin - My oldest is really getting into creating beaded safety pins and found this pattern online to share.
Here is a great website we found online about watermelons too:
http://www.watermelon.org/kids_facts.asp - This site has great information about knowing when to pick watermelons… something we needed to know for our little garden this year.
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Great Coupons!
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Hope you do mind me sharing, but here are some really fun watermelon themed recipes kids will love too!
Watermelon Poke Cupcakes
http://www.familycorner.com/family/kids/recipes/watermelon-poke-cake-cupcakes.shtml
Watermelon Cookies
http://www.familycorner.com/family/kids/recipes/watermelon_cookies.shtml
Thank you for the bright ideas. I’ll try tomorrow with our kids at the playgroup.