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.