Watermelon Ideas for Kids

Watermelon and summer go hand in hand, and this watermelon sponge painting activity is a great tactile activity for preschoolers.

All you need is green paint, red paint, black paint, and a sponge cut to resemble watermelon slices.

I love tissue paper crafts and paper plate crafts. This cute watermelon craft combines them both, and it’ll look great hanging on your fridge this summer.

I’ve never made squishies, but my daughter loves them. But, you won’t believe how easy it is to make a watermelon squishy toy with your little ones.

Making watermelon ships is a great way to spend the afternoon. Preschoolers will need some adult assistance to complete this craft, but it’s an awesome summer water play activity.

Don’t throw away the rind when you’re done eating your watermelon this summer. Slice it up, and use it to try watermelon rind rainbow printing with your tots and preschoolers.

Handprint crafts are always a hit with preschoolers. This summer, turn their handprint into a fun handprint watermelon.

I love the little surprise “seeds” used to make this paper plate watermelon craft.

I love making oobleck with kids. It’s so interesting how it changes from a solid to a liquid depending on how it’s manipulated. Making watermelon oobleck adds a nice summer twist to this activity.

This watermelon counting activity has preschoolers working on counting, number recognition, and fine motor skills as they add seeds to these homemade watermelon counting cards.

Slime provides an opportunity for some awesome sensory play for kids. My daughter loves to make it. Your kids will love helping you make some watermelon-scented slime.

Keep your empty watermelon shell, and use it to make a watermelon volcano. It’s summer science at its finest.

Black beans make wonderful “seeds” in this homemade watermelon play dough. Add some watermelon Kool-Aid for a fun sensory addition.

This watermelon sensory bag is great for rainy day play. If you hang it in the window, it makes a great gross motor activity, too.

There are quite a few skills you can focus on when you turn your watermelon into a geoboard for some hands-on watermelon math.

If your little ones are old enough to play without putting things in their mouths, try out this watermelon soap foam sensory bin.

There are a lot of hands-on math activities you can do with a watermelon. Check out how you can use a watermelon to teach shapes, fractions, and weight with your preschoolers.

The object of these watermelon seed alphabet tracing cards is to use black bean “seeds” to fill in each outlined letter on the watermelon cards.

Picking up watermelon seeds is a great fine motor activity and helps little ones develop their pincer grasp. These watermelon seed fine motor activities are great for letter recognition, number recognition, and one-to-one correspondence, as ell.

This free watermelon printables pack contains 73 free printables geared toward kids ages 2-7. There's sure to be plenty for your little ones to enjoy.

Printable watermelon counting cards make a fun math activity for kids of all ages. Encourage your little ones to use playdough or other small items to add the correct number of seeds to each slice of watermelon.