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.

Lots of Americans seem to think that May 5 is Mexican Independence Day, but that holiday actually falls on Sept. 16.

May 5 is the celebration of the Battle of Puebla, in which the Mexicans defeated the French in 1862. Independence Day marks the beginning of their fight for independence from Spain in 1810. That was the day of what’s known as El Grito de Dolores, or the cry of Dolores, for when the Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the church bells at his church in Dolores and declared that Mexico should be free from Spanish rule.

They would fight for their freedom until 1821 when they finally gained independence.

Fabulous Classroom has a little of the history and ideas for celebrating the holiday for all age groups. There’s also a link to a good video in that post about the real story of Mexican Independence Day.

Twinkl also has a good tops about the history and different activities, discussion ideas, crafts and foods that can be incorporated into lessons at school or used at home.

I also found a few pins that no longer link to a website but include good information on Mexican Independence Day, including some questions for students to answer based on the reading. You can find more printables and questions for kids from TX Homeschool Mama on Etsy (also available in Spanish).

You can find a lot more paid resources about Mexican Independence Day at Teachers Pay Teachers.

Mexican flag crafts are a fun option for celebrating Mexican Independence Day (though the current iteration of their flag has only been in use since 1968). Kids Activities Blog has a free Mexican flag printable and a few different ideas for decorating it including dot markers and torn tissue paper.

You can also find some great Mexican crafts at Red Ted Art. The post includes all sorts of Mexican inspired projects including Day of the Dead crafts, Frida Kahlo pinatas and upcycled musical instruments. I love the giant paper flowers they shared from Honestly WTF.

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