Paper Plate Watermelon Craft with Yarn
Celebrate spring and summer with this adorable Paper Plate Watermelon Craft! All you need is a paper plate, some colored yarn and simple tools to make this sweet summer project! Bonus: Kids can practice their fine motor skills!
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If you love paper plate crafts, be sure to also check out our Paper Plate Tomato, Pepperoni Paper Pizza and Paper Plate Sunflower crafts!
Why We Love this Craft
- A unique twist! There are tons of paper plate watermelon crafts out there. To change things up, we decided to put our own twist on a paper plate watermelon by decorating it with colored yarn.
- Fine motor skills– The cool part about this activity is that it provides a great opportunity for kids to practice their fine motor skills with cutting, weaving and taping.
- Minimal mess. No paint involved here, just some basic cutting, gluing and weaving.
- Lots of playtime. We love play food crafts! Once kids create their paper plate watermelons, they can actually play with them!
- Note: Rather than running out to buy colored yarn, we decided to simply dye our white yarn using food coloring. We loosely followed Laughing Hens’ article on How to Dye Wool with Food Colouring, and the results were great!
Between dyeing your yarn and allowing yarn to completely dry, this process adds quite a bit of time to this craft. As such, we recommend coloring your yarn a day in advance of doing your paper plate watermelon craft.
✂️ Supplies
Notes on Supplies:
Scissors– We love these kid-friendly scissors.
Yarn– You can buy colored yarn or dye yarn on your own! We loosely followed Laughing Hens’ article on How to Dye Wool with Food Colouring, and the results were great!
📝 Instructions
Step 1: Cut paper plate in half and set one half aside for later. Cut away the plate’s outer edge. This will be your watermelon’s rind.
Step 2. Cut several small slits around the curved edges of your paper plate cutouts. These slits will be used to weave your yarn across the paper plate pieces to decorate your watermelon’s body and its rind. Use the slits to weave your pink yarn throughout your watermelon’s body, and your green yarn throughout the watermelon’s rind. Secure the ends of your yarn to the back of your watermelon pieces with tape.
Step 3. Assemble your watermelon. Tape or paste your watermelon’s body and rind to the half of your paper plate that you had set aside.
Step 4. Add your watermelon’s seeds! Using a black marker or sharpie, place black dots on the pink yarn.
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🍉 Paper Plate Watermelon Craft with Yarn
Supplies
- 1 Paper plate (white is ideal)
- Scissors
- Pink and green yarn
- Tape (or glue)
- 1 Black marker or sharpie
Instructions
- Cut paper plate in half and set one half aside for later. Cut away the plate's outer edge. This will be your watermelon's rind.
- Cut several small slits around the curved edges of your paper plate cutouts. These slits will be used to weave your yarn across the paper plate pieces to decorate your watermelon's body and its rind. Use the slits to weave your pink yarn throughout your watermelon's body, and your green yarn throughout the watermelon's rind. Secure the ends of your yarn to the back of your watermelon pieces with tape.
- Assemble your watermelon. Tape or paste your watermelon's body and rind to the half of your paper plate that you had set aside.
- Add your watermelon's seeds! Using a black marker or sharpie, place black dots on the pink yarn.
