The sweet smell along with the beautiful pink and green color makes a watermelon an especially inviting fruit to taste, create, and hold. We spent some time on our last day of preschool doing just that – exploring and creating watermelons…
We began our short study of a watermelon by reading the book The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli…
This is a super silly book about what might happen if you swallow a watermelon seed. If you don’t mind a little burping, then you will think this book is quite funny. My kids thought it was super funny but it did raise the question as to whether or not you should swallow a watermelon seed. In the end, we decided that it probably wasn’t a good idea to swallow a watermelon seed but that if you do, the watermelon seed isn’t going to really grow inside you…
After reading our story, we passed around a real watermelon and talked about its shape and weight…
And then we cut our whole watermelon in half to see what it looked like inside and drew some pictures of watermelon on our white board…
Then the children tasted some watermelon for snack time and made their own watermelons from paper napkins…
To make their paper watermelons, the children started by drawing an outline of their watermelon shape with a pencil…
Then the children brushed watered down glue on top of their drawings…
And then begin tearing their pink and green napkins into small pieces and adding the pieces to the glue to fill in their drawings…
The children found if they opened up their napkins before tearing that it would be much easier to tear the paper…
Every paper watermelon turned out beautifully…
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Links to Grow On
Simple watermelon sun catchers by Teach Preschool
Watermelon Exploration in Preschool by Teach Preschool
Watermelon Song and Painting by Teach Preschool