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Watermelon Counting and Fine Motor Activity

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Who is ready for summer? Who is ready for watermelon? And fun learning? Make these fun watermelon punching and counting cards during summer for a lovely counting and fine motor activity!Make these fun watermelon counting cards during summer for a lovely counting and fine motor activity to play with your Preschooler or Kindergartner!

Supplies Needed

These watermelon cards are easy to make. All you need are:

  • Green paper plates (or paint/color white ones green) – you will not want thick plates or they will be too hard for kids to punch, so you may find better luck with the thin white ones and painting them, as many green ones that you find are sturdier, depending on where you look.
  • Red paper
  • Marker
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Paper punch

Make these fun watermelon counting cards during summer for a lovely counting and fine motor activity to play with your Preschooler or Kindergartner!
First, cut circles from the red paper. These circles should be big enough to fill the plate three quarters. Then, glue the circles down and cut the plates into quarters or halves.

Making the cards
Use a marker to write numbers on each card and draw the corresponding “seeds”. Make sure to draw the seeds in reach of the punch, even if the child must turn the card a little bit.

Watermelon cards

Watermelon Counting and Fine Motor Activity

Now, a child can punch out the seeds while counting them! This is a very good exercise to strengthen the hand muscles, and kids LOVE using hole punches.

Make these fun watermelon counting cards during summer for a lovely counting and fine motor activity to play with your Preschooler or Kindergartner!
After the seeds are punched out, you can reuse the cards by using small black pompoms, buttons or real seeds.

Add these small objects with a tweezer (these tweezers are perfect for little hands!) onto the punched holes for extra fine motor practice together with counting!

Make these fun watermelon counting cards during summer for a lovely counting and fine motor activity to play with your Preschooler or Kindergartner!
A cheery watermelon activity for your preschooler or kindergarten child/class, perfect to keep learning all summer long!

More Watermelon Fun

Looking for even more learning ideas with a fun watermelon theme? Pair some of our favorites below with these counting cards and continue the watermelon theme with your kids!

Watermelon Seed Addition Cards

Free printable watermelon seed addition cards

Watermelon Seed Alphabet Tracing Cards (The Letters of Literacy)

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Nadia

Nadia is a South African mom to two littles, a former preschool teacher, and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at Teach me Mommy about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher. You can see more of her ideas on Pinterest and Instagram.

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Filed Under: Activities, Holiday/Seasonal, Kindergarten, Math, Preschool Tagged With: Counting, fine motor, math centers, Spring, Summer, watermelon

About Nadia

Nadia is a South African mom to two littles, a former preschool teacher, and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at Teach me Mommy about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher. You can see more of her ideas on Pinterest and Instagram.

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