W Is for Watermelon Craft

Bring a bit of summer into your letter learning! Your preschooler will be wowed by this juicy and delicious ABC Craft. But when she’s done with her lowercase W craft, be sure to save a piece of watermelon for us!

Here’s What You’ll Need

2 sheets of printer paper
Card stock (we used yellow, green, red, and black)
W Is for Watermelon Craft templates
Glue stick and scissors
Pencil and green marker

Instructions for Assembling Your Lowercase W Craft

Print the W Is for Watermelon Craft templates.
Cut out the templates and trace the letter W and the watermelon fruit and seeds onto card stock.
Cut out the letter W and watermelon pieces.
Glue the watermelon fruit piece onto a full sheet of card stock (we used yellow, but you can use any color you like).
Position the letter W over the watermelon fruit as shown in the example and glue in place.
Glue the seeds to the watermelon fruit.
Use a green marker to draw the details on the W as shown in the example.

child adds piece to her lowercase w craft

children add piece to their lowercase v craft

Learning with Your Letter W Craft

As you and your child assemble your W Is for Watermelon Craft, practice saying /w/–/w/–watermelon together. You can find more tips for working on pre-reading skills with your preschooler in this handy download.

We would LOVE to see how your lowercase W craft turns out! Please share your photos with us on our Facebook page, or tag your Instagram photos with the hashtag #allaboutABCcrafts!

Want More ABC Crafts?

page spread from the abc crafts lowercase series download

Free Lowercase ABC Letter Crafts

For crafts that start with lowercase letters A through Z, get the complete printable set of ABC Craft for Lowercase Letters.

page spread from the abc crafts uppercase series download

Free Uppercase ABC Letter Crafts

For crafts that start with uppercase letters A through Z, get the complete printable set of ABC Craft for Uppercase Letters.

Photos by: Rachel Neumann

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Alodia Abarca Igloso

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June 21, 2021 at 1:50 am

thank you so much for sharing all these wonderful ,amazing educational stuff.

Best Wishes,
Alodia

Robin E.

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June 22, 2021 at 2:17 pm

You’re very welcome, Alodia!

Larisa

March 18, 2021 at 10:36 am

This is amazing! My preschooler will love it. He is frequently coming up and asking to do “school” with his big sister. Thank you!

March 18, 2021 at 7:17 pm

You’re welcome, Larisa. I hope your preschooler has lots of fun with it!

Lynn

February 16, 2021 at 4:58 am

I work with SLLs and they love all of your project. Thnk you for shaing one for each letter!

February 16, 2021 at 2:03 pm

I’m happy to hear your students are enjoying these crafts, Lynn! Thank you!

Jamie

January 13, 2021 at 3:30 pm

This is such a cute idea, love it!

January 13, 2021 at 3:34 pm

I’m glad you like it, Jamie!

M. Martinez

October 8, 2020 at 5:57 am

What a cute and easy project!

October 8, 2020 at 6:46 pm

Thank you! Glad you like it.

Hannah

September 11, 2020 at 4:27 pm

Super cute! I am really loving All About Reading for my kindergartener!

Tiffany

September 11, 2020 at 3:05 pm

Awesome idea!

Paula

September 10, 2020 at 4:02 pm

So cute! Looking forward to making the alphabet booklets with my kiddos.

Melanie

August 29, 2020 at 7:29 pm

My boys loved doing these crafts! We did all of the upper and lower case letters in a book for their preschool years. Thank you for the great idea!

September 1, 2020 at 1:49 pm

Thank you, Melanie, for letting us know that your boys enjoyed these crafts! It’s great to hear that children are learning and having fun with the activities we have.

Ang

August 28, 2020 at 2:13 pm

I pieced together something like this for my 8 year olds when they were preschool aged – now that I have 4 kiddos in tow, it’ll be great to just pop on here to get some educational activities for their preschool aged brother while I work with the olders (he totally wants to be included in school, so this is great!)

August 28, 2020 at 4:17 pm

I’m glad this will help you have fun activities without all the time commitment, Ang! As a mom-of-many myself, I understand how important that is.

Tulisha Scott

August 24, 2020 at 4:32 pm

My boys have been enjoying watermelon that we grew in our garden. They would really like making this craft!

Amy

August 22, 2020 at 2:08 am

So cute!

Lindsey

August 21, 2020 at 11:26 pm

This looks like a fun educational craft my little will like! Thank you!

Nicole

August 21, 2020 at 9:30 am

I love these crafts! Not only does it work on letter recognition, but the cutting and pasting skills. Plus my boys do much better with letters when they can relate them to some. We recently watched Peter Pan, now they see P and know P is for Peter Pan.

August 21, 2020 at 1:15 pm

Nicole,
Yes! Being able to relate new information to previously learned information is very important for memory. We even have a blog post on the science of it, How Making Connections Helps Your Child’s Memory.

Kristen

August 21, 2020 at 8:04 am

I love how easy it is to find fun letter crafts on this website. I can’t wait to make the W watermelon craft with my son!

April

August 21, 2020 at 1:35 am

Do you introduce upper or lowercase letters first? Since lowercase letters are much more commonly used, it seems lower would make sense, but then are uppercase letters easier to draw?

August 21, 2020 at 1:35 pm

April,
We introduce uppercase letters first in our Pre-reading program. We discuss this in our How to Teach the Alphabet to Preschoolers blog post. Not only are capital letters easier to write, but they are much less likely to cause letter reversal problems. With capitals, only M and W are easily confused when rotated or flipped. With lowercase, reversal problems with letters are much more likely. Learning capitals first can help reduce letter reversal problems for many children.

Michelle Dalton

August 20, 2020 at 10:56 pm

I can’t wait to try this with my little boy!

Sharon Smith

August 20, 2020 at 6:04 pm

I like this one as well it’s pretty cool

Kaileigh

August 20, 2020 at 11:05 am

Hello,
I’m curious about how your teach the /w/ sound. I learned in another literacy program to teach it more like a “wooo” sound. This makes sense to me as it removes the schwa sound off the traditional “whuh”, which is an issue with the way a lot of sounds are taught (e.g. “buh” “tut” “kuh”, etc.) I’m interested what your thoughts are.

August 20, 2020 at 4:18 pm

Kaileigh,
Good question.

We attempt to teach all consonant sounds in as much isolation as possible. The problem is, however, that many consonant sounds are almost impossible to say without a vowel sound following. Have you tried to say /r/ without it sounding like /ruh/ or /er/? It’s so hard!

Check out our free Phonogram Sounds app available for all devices and through a web browser. You will hear that it does have a hint of a /uh/ sound with the /w/. It took hours of recording to make this app and we tried many different ways of saying consonants. R took more than 100 different recordings all by itself!

When our voice person pronounced certain consonants, including W and R, with no vowel sound, the consonant sound wasn’t recognizable at all. What was settled on was a minimal vowel sound following consonants as necessary for clarity.

However, the Phonogram Sounds app is only an optional aid for All About Reading and All About Spelling. You don’t have to use it, and you can teach your child to make that more /oo/ sort of vowel sound following /w/ instead of the /uh/ sort. It is really much the same thing, just a slightly different sound.

Does this help you? Let me know if you have additional questions or need more information.