Bring on summer fun! Summer is my favorite season, endless days outside in the sun, playing at the pool and long nights outside catching lightning bugs and staying up way past our bedtime!  Watermelon is a summer staple over here, cooling us down with delicious juicy watermelons and watermelon slices! Fun watermelon crafts are for kids of all ages (and adults too) to have a fun summer craft.  

Take summer fun to a whole new level with these fun watermelon activities.  Beat the summer heat by snacking on a large watermelon slice and enjoying these favorite watermelon crafts.  Whether you are looking for watermelon arts and activities for your children or planning a watermelon theme for your classroom or preschool, these watermelon themed activities are going to be a hit with younger children and older children during the hot summer months and beyond.

Fun Easy Watermelon Crafts and DIY Activities for Kids

Every year there is a national watermelon day in August, and it is the perfect opportunity to visit your local craft store for summer crafting.  This year Watermelon Day was on August 3rd!  

Richmond, VA hosts the watermelon festival every summer and it is a Richmond tradition.  Carytown is shut down to through traffic and shops bring goods out into the street for shopping and strolling.  Bowls of watermelon are sold for 1$ and bands preform all day long.  It's a favorite of Richmond natives and visitors every year.  

Items to have for Watermelon Crafts and Art:

• acrylic paint

• Pink tissue paper

• red paper

• googly eyes

• black paint

• paper plates

• green paper

• black marker

• puffy paint (white paint)

• white cardstock / white paper

• black paper

• green paint

• red paint

• popsicle sticks

• coffee beans work perfect for black seeds

• black buttons for seeds if you want to be creative

7 Best Watermelon Crafts for Kids

1. Tissue Paper Watermelon Craft -

   Creating a tissue paper watermelon is as easy as pie. All you need are some basic craft materials.  Included is a free printable template you can use. The author reminds you that it’s not just about the end product, it’s the process that counts! So, let’s make this fun craft a great way to work on fine motor skills and have good times with family or friends and do not get caught up on it looking perfect!

   Young children will love just being creative.  It’s a simple project utilizes readily available craft materials, making it suitable for creating at home or in a school setting. Additionally, it seamlessly complements a watermelon or fun idea for a homeschool or school inspired fruit-themed unit study.  Requiring small squares of pink tissue paper, scissors and glue and paper plate this makes this little watermelon one of the best ideas if you have these items laying around!  String multiple of these up and make a cute home made garland.

2. Coffee Filter Watermelon Craft -

As the sun shines brighter, we’ve got a delightful project that your kids will absolutely love – the coffee filter watermelon craft! This summer craft is not just about creating a cute suncatcher that will sparkle in the sunlight, it’s also a fantastic opportunity for your children to exercise their fine motor skills. Whether they are in preschool, kindergarten, or older, this craft project is a perfect combination of creativity and skill-building. So, gather up your coffee filters and let’s create some summer magic together! This is a favorite way to decorate a bulletin board or a window in your house and it can double as a suncatcher.

3. Toilet Paper Roll Watermelon Craft

These cute toilet paper roll watermelon crafts for kids are a cute spring and summer project.  Use our easy template to print out the shapes and use markers to decorate. empty toilet paper rolls or use craft tubes to make these fun and summer projects. Affordable and easy to make in a few minutes, it’s the perfect project to make after school or in an afternoon. Here is how to make these fun and fruity projects with your family! I love this toilet paper roll craft because its perfect for even a little learner and adults can join for inner child fun too!

4. Watermelon Card Craft

Make this easy and fun watermelon craft for someone you love this summer! You can even write, “You’re One in a Melon” inside the card too as a perfect way to make a homemade creation a easy idea for a birthday card in the summer! Use the watermelon template provided or cut a semi circle shape on your own! Work on handwriting and letter w craft ideas too for a win win!

5. Paper Plate Watermelon Craft - Purse

 This paper plate purse craft is super simple and can be made to go with any theme of learning or play. It makes an excellent craft for imaginative play and includes directions to make a purse that actually works. For this craft, you will need paint, a paper plate, scissors, staples, and a ribbon or string. You can decorate your purse in any way desired, using optional items like glitter, glitter glue, foam stickers, stickers, crayons, markers, and more. 

Because this watermelon craft is a semi-circle shape, it makes the perfect watermelon craft for kids. Other ideas for decorating your purse craft would be tye-dye, stars and stripes, a favorite color, and more.

6. Watermelon Suncatchers

While these watermelon sun catchers are a perfect summer activity for a watermelon paper craft, you can use the melted crayon stained glass idea all year round.  Gather up your old red crayons, because you’ll need a few to create the stained glass effect for these watermelon suncatchers. The rind is simply made from paper plates and paint. You are doing to use the center of the paper plate as the juicy watermelon and also create the cutest green rind of the watermelon too!  I love that this watermelon craft is a flexible one, so even the smallest semi-circle shape will work perfectly!

7. Watermelon Fan Craft

Keep cool this summer with this fun and simple Paper Fan Watermelon Craft for Kids! This summertime craft is easy to make using just a few common supplies you probably already have in your home or classroom. Your kids are sure to enjoy some hands-on, summer crafting and you’ll love how inexpensive and easy this project is! This Watermelon Paper Fan Craft would be a great activity for the kids to do indoors when it’s too hot to go outside. It pairs perfectly with the book, The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli! We love to read the book aloud and then get crafting!

8. Watermelon Garland

There are a few things that come to mind when thinking of summertime, one of those being watermelon! Cool, crisp, sweet, and refreshing, it’s the perfect nostalgic staple of summer we all know and love. Decorate your next backyard barbeque with a DIY watermelon garland. Using markers, twine, and paper doilies, you can brighten up your party space with slices of watermelon. Simply cut the doilies in half and use green, pink, and black markers to draw on and color in the slices. Use tape and twine to string up your melons into a garland. This simple touch can add a summery vibe to any space. Hang along your fence, front porch, fireplace mantle, or use as the lining for a party table.

These easy craft ideas to create the cutest slice of watermelon you’ve ever seen are great for a hot summer day or great summer crafts to kick off the summer season! Best part, they will be so cute parents and grandparents will love these for gifts or keepsakes. Any age group will love having a crafty morning with these fun activities. Which of these watermelon activity ideas do you think you will try first?