Easy Paper Plate Watermelon Craft

Instructions cut your paper plate in half.

Easy paper plate watermelon craft. Start sticking on a double layer of green tissue paper around the top curve. Cut the paper plate in half. Red and green color green and dark green you can also use a dark green marker black marker. Watermelon paper plate craft.

A fun and easy art activity that toddlers and preschoolers will love. Get creative this summer with this paper plate watermelon craft for kids. Dip a finger into the black paint and press onto the. We re going to start by using your straight edge and pencil to draw a line down the center of your plate.

Start by having your child color the inside of the paper plate red and the outer rim of the plate green. It doesn t really matter what color you paint first so i had one of them paint the red while the other painted the. Then on one half of the plate draw two lines to divide it into three slices. I then gave my girls each a cup of black.

There s quite a few different paper plate watermelon craft tutorials out there but i wanted to take it a bit further adding a special twist that will hopefully make the kids even more excited about making this one. Then stick pink tissue paper squares onto the inside of the paper plate. Red green and black paint. Spread a layer of elmer s glue onto the paper plate.

To put this craft together and use it to practice math you ll need a plain white paper plate red and green crayons a ruler pencil scissors and a package of watermelon seeds.