Watermelon is a delicious summer treat! Celebrate the season with your young child by making a simple but fun watermelon paper plate craft.
Materials
- Green and black nontoxic paint
- Red paper
- White paper plate
- Black nontoxic paint
- Scrap cardboard
- Craft glue
- Paintbrush
- Scissors
Instructions
- Pour some green paint onto the cardboard.
- Allow your child to paint the paper plate with the green paint.
- Allow the green paint to dry thoroughly.
- Cut the red paper into smaller squares.
- Pour and spread some craft glue in the center of the green paper plate.
- Allow your child to glue the red paper squares to the center of the green paper plate.
- Allow the glue to dry thoroughly.
- Pour some black paint onto the cardboard.
- Allow your child to fingerpaint black seeds on the red paper squares.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Allow the black paint to dry thoroughly.
- Display the watermelon paper plate toddler craft!
Image Credits
Painting the Paper Plate Green 1 © 2014 Heather Johnson
Painting the Paper Plate Green 2 © 2014 Heather Johnson
Green Paper Plate © 2014 Heather Johnson
Pouring Glue on the Green Paper Plate © 2014 Heather Johnson
Attaching Red Paper Squares to the Green Paper Plate © 2014 Heather Johnson
Red Paper Squares Glued to Green Paper Plate © 2014 Heather Johnson
Fingerpainting Black Seeds on the Red Paper Squares © 2014 Heather Johnson
Watermelon Paper Plate Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
Watermelon Paper Plate Toddler Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson