Watermelon Paper Plate Craft

This classic paper plate craft uses fingerprints to create watermelon seeds. The age level for this project can be adjusted by letting your child do all steps, or just the fingerprint step for babies and toddlers.

This project is great if you’re looking for a summer crafting project about gardening and planting seeds, or learning about the letter ‘W’. It’s also perfect as a 4th of July project.

How to Customize Watermelon Fingerprint Art:

One special way to customize this craft with your kiddo is to use their fingerprints as the seeds! All you need is a bit of black acrylic paint, and they can have fun dotting the watermelon themselves.

This is a great time to tell them that with a real watermelon, you can plant the seeds to make more! Other ideas for the seeds include dried black beans, coffee beans, or you can even use real watermelon seeds!

If you’re using something besides paint, you’ll want to use glue to secure the items to the paper plate.

Other Fun Summer Projects:

• Cactus Handprint Craft
• Painting Seashells
• Summer Bingo and Tic-Tac-Toe
• 4th of July Rocket (Made with Toilet Paper Roll)

Why Kids Love Watermelon Crafts:

• The more that kids can do by themselves, the more proud of the work they’ll be.
• “Making” seeds is a fun way to teach them about gardening, and they’ll love being able to help in such a big way.
• Fingerprint art is perfect for a variety of ages. My 4- and 7-year-old both enjoyed this craft project.

Supplies:

1. acrylic paint – green, pink and black
2. paper plate
3. paintbrush
4. scissors

How to Make this Watermelon Craft:

1. Paint the edges of the entire paper plate green.
2. Allow time to dry between steps and then paint the center of the plate pink or red.
3. Once dry, use a small amount of black acrylic paint on your child’s pointer finger to add black dots throughout the center section.
4. Once the paint is completely dry, cut the circle in half to create two watermelon pieces.

This project takes about 20 minutes to complete, not including dry time. It’s best to break it into two sessions or to paint the pink and green base coat in advance.

Tips:

• Older children can do all the steps including the pink and green base layer.
• To tailor this project to babies and toddlers, complete the base layer in advance and do just the black paint fingerprints step together.
• Seeds can be randomly placed in the pink center or the watermelon—no need to do a specific pattern.

Book Suggestions:

• The Watermelon Seed
• This Watermelon is Not Round
• Watermelon Coloring Book

More Paper Plate Crafts:

• Paper Plate Lion with Rainbow Mane
• Paper Plate Bee Craft
• Monster Paper Plate Craft
• Paper Plate Santa and Christmas Tree

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Make a paper plate watermelon as the perfect summer activity! Kiddos will love getting to paint and learn about this summertime favorite fruit.

Yield 2 paper watermelon

Supplies

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• ▢ acrylic paint (in green, pink or red and black)
• ▢ 1 paper plate

Instructions

• Paint the edges of the entire paper plate green.
• Allow time to dry between steps and then paint the center of the plate pink or red.
• Once dry, use a small amount of black acrylic paint on your child's pointer finger to add black dots throughout the center section.
• Once the paint is completely dry, cut the circle in half to create two watermelon pieces.

Equipment

1 pair of scissors

1 paintbrush

Notes

You could also use dried black beans, coffee beans, buttons, poms or actual watermelon seeds for this craft.  

Keywords kids crafts, paper crafts