W is for Watermelon

I knew National Watermelon day (Aug 3) was approaching and planned to a watermelon theme prior and end with Watermelon day.  Instead, we started on National Watermelon Day and it worked out great!  Nice and tasty snack and investigation to start our new theme!

Books
Watermelon Day- Appelt
One Watermelon Seed- Barker
A Seed Grows- Hickman

Crafts

Painted giant Watermelon with fingerprint seeds

Finished Product!

Paper plate watermelon with glued on felt seeds

L's on top, GB's on bottom

Watercolored W with glued on real seeds

Skills
We learned a lot about watermelons and how they feel, grow, taste, smell and why they are called water (melons).  Great info at www.watermelon.org.

Watermelon capital letter/lowercase match-file folder games  (these are great for quite time activities, she can grab a folder and sit in her room and play)

Watermelon number/counting match File Folder- printable at ?

W making with our letter puzzles (Handwriting without Tears, but I have seen some printable ones on several blogs)

Counted seeds

Planted a few Watermelon seeds

Find the letter W

Patterns with red,green and black watermelon shapes- can't find the photo.

Snacks/lunch

Of course, we had watermelon for snacks and with lunch!

Who knows why he chose to eat it without his hands?!!!

We even had a little fun photoshoot with our watermelons! ;)-  My personal favortite part- I've been doing this every summer since GB was born and look forward to it each year.  I think this years are the best yet!

Watermelon waffles

Watermelon toast

Watermelon pancakes- same idea as the waffles GB requested watermelon pancakes.

Watermelon sandwich (cookie cutter)

Watermelon cakepops

Bible Lessons
Ps. 34:8
Genesis 1:11
God created plants and animals

W is also for Water!  We did a lot of swimming this week, in fact GB started going underwater this week!!  Such a big girl!!

L also "read" his first bookS to us this week!  "Brown Bear Brown Bear", and  "Let's Work"  It's so cute when he reads!  Of course some of the words are a little fuzzy, but you can tell what he's saying. :)) 

We are Proud of our Littles! :)