I made a yummy watermelon letter punch activity for fine motor skills and letter recognition and review. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and cut them out.

I recommend printing on cardstock paper and laminating durability if you will be using these as clip cards. I have included both color as well as black and white patterns so you have a choice of which to use.

In this activity children pick a card and punch the dot under the letter that matches the letter on the watermelon.  If you did not want to use a hole punch you could also clip the cards with clothespins or paper clips or even use buttons to cover up the dots.

As of 2022 this activity can be found in the member's section which is also where I have added watermelon number punch cards.

Who doesn't love watermelon in the summer? I made a watermelon alphabet clip which is a great activity for letter recognition and fine motor development.  I printed the patterns on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminated them.

I set the watermelon slices out along with enough clothespins for all of the cards.  I made this set with upper to upper ... upper to lower ... and lower to lower so you would have a choice of what you wanted your early learners to work on.

In this activity children clip a clothespin on the matching letter on each watermelon slice. Play continues until all cards have been clipped. As of 2022 this activity can be found in the member's section which is also where the watermelon number clip is located.

I made a watermelon themed math center activity that also works on developing fine motor skills. I printed the patterns out and on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminated them.

Before we began the activity the children rolled black playdough into small balls about the size of a blueberry and put them into a dish.  The children loved this part and it really helps with fine motor.  If you do not have black playdough you can use brown playdough ... black pony beads ... even black oil sunflower seeds.

I set the watermelon slices in a basket for the children to self selected and they put the matching number of playdough balls on each watermelon. The watermelon patterns include numbers 0-30 and you can grab them here.

You can see a video of this activity below:

We work in outdoor centers for part of the day today and for our math center I made a watermelon pick and count activity.  I free cut the watermelon pattern from red and green cardstock paper and glued them on to a sheet of blue cardstock paper.  I glued a blank square on the upper left corner of the watermelon mat and then laminated the mat.  I printed out the number squares and also laminated them.  You can find the patterns for both the watermelon and the number squares 1-30 here.

For our counters we used small black pom poms but you can also use black pony beads (remember to use supervision for children three and under and those still in the stages of putting small objects in their mouths).

Children picked a number card and put it in the blank square on the watermelon mat.  The next step was to put the same number of black pom poms on the water melon.  They continued until they had used all of the number cards. This is also an excellent activity for fine motor development.

You can see a video of this activity here or by clicking below: