Submitted by: Mary Beth Knippel, a teacher at Son Shine Preschool in Rice Lake WI.

Objectives:

What You Need:

• Red Construction Paper
• Black or Brown Paint
• Q-tips
• Green Paint
• Watermelon Rind

What You Do:

1. Children will love this lesson because they not only will make a slice of Watermelon but they can also enjoy eating it too!

2. First draw a large triangle on a piece RED 9X13 sheet of construction paper.

3. Use a Q-tip to dip into the Brown or Black paint and dot onto the Red paper.

4. These dots represent the seeds.

5. Then take a rind from a watermelon (of course you have to eat the watermelon first) and dip one side into the green paint.

6. Take the rind and press it on the bottom of the triangle.

7. Do you see what is happening.

8. You have a generic watermelon slice.

9. You can then have the children cut out their triangle watermelon.