Watermelon Learning Activities

Last year I did a post full of watermelon activities for kids that focused on more craft and sensory type projects. This time around let’s look at some learning activities that use these fruits or involve their shape in some way.

Reading and Literacy

Read the book The Watermelon Seed and grab the free printables from Homeschool Preschool that tie into the book. You’ll find practice pages for tracing letters, color by number, scissor practice, a sorting activity based on what grows from seeds and a maze.

Preschool Play and Learn has printable watermelon alphabet mats, which kids can use to trace the letters, cover them with seeds or other objects, or use a playdough mats. Or grab the watermelon ABC matching game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me, which is great for learning letter recognition.

Match letters on the watermelon with letters written on dot stickers with this easy activity from Fluffy Tots.

Math

The Kindergarten Connection has printable mat mats with a watermelon theme you can use to practice addition and subtraction. Use dice to get the numbers you’ll use and use markers to draw seeds or use real seeds or other markers for counting.

Or use the printable counting cards from Playdough to Plato to practice one-to-one correspondence and counting to 10.

Teach kids about fractions with this DIY watermelon fractions game made out of cardboard. Happy Tot Shelf has the instructions.

Preschool Play and Learn has watermelon seed counting playdough mats where kids can make seeds to correspond to the numbers and trace the numbers with dough.

Science

Learn about the life of a watermelon with this printable mini book from Every Day is the Weekend. (This printable and others on the theme are in their Teachers Pay Teachers shop.)

Use a real pumpkin as the base for classic sensory science activities like making a baking soda and vinegar volcano. Get the tutorial from Natural Beach Living.

Motor Skills

Practice cutting with printable watermelon cutting pages from Sea of Knowledge.

Grab some watermelon do a dot printables from From ABCs to ACTs.

Do you have watermelon learning activities you like to do with kids? Or do you just like to eat them? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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Watermelon Activities for Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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