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Published: Jun 26, 2014 · Modified: Aug 12, 2022 by Birute Efe · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

A Very Different Watermelon Craft

building watermelon craft

It's watermelon season finally! We are more than excited because this family is "1 huge watermelon a day" kinda family. We go through a lot of this green and red goodness.

Multiple images of watermelon crafts.

But after eating a watermelon, there is so much beautiful rind left that I always feel bad throwing it away.

Today was the day, and we decided to.....

Jump to:
  • The Story
  • Ding Ding! That's what mama needed.
  • How to build a watermelon house
  • Here is what our furniture designers created
  • Modern style couch "a la Europa"
  • 3-Piece Breakfast Table Set in Watermelon Green
  • Flintstones car?
  • It was supposed to be a crib. You decide. 🙂

The Story

After a refreshing watermelon snack we started cutting up the watermelon rind for the compost bin which is going to our chicken coop. As I was cutting the watermelon slices into small pieces kids grabbed them and start stacking them up, trying to make different 'sculptures'. Then they said: "if only they would stick to each other..."

Ding Ding! That's what mama needed.

I stood up, got wooden kebob sticks and tooth picks. The the rest is ... in the pictures.

Watermelon Craft from watermelon peels and tooth picks on a table.

How to build a watermelon house

You will need:

  • watermelon rind
  • some tooth picks or wooden kebob sticks
  • knife
  • spoon
Two kdis making a watermelon craft.

What to do:

  1. Cut watermelon in half.
  2. Eat it.
  3. Use spoon to scoop all the "meat" out.
  4. Use 1/4  of the watermelon for the "house"
  5. Cut up other half in different shapes: squares, triangles and circles
  6. Build chairs, couches, tables, baby cribs and many more furniture from watermelon pieces by attaching them with the tooth pick.
Hands making a watermelon craft fom watermelon peels and wooden tooth picks.

Here is what our furniture designers created

Modern style couch "a la Europa"

2 iamges of Watermelon Craft from watermelon peels and tooth picks.

3-Piece Breakfast Table Set in Watermelon Green

2 images of Watermelon Craft from watermelon peels and tooth picks.

Flintstones car?

Watermelon Craft from watermelon peels and tooth picks on a table.

It was supposed to be a crib. You decide. 🙂

Watermelon Craft from watermelon peels and tooth picks on a table.

I did have to help kids a little, by cutting up the watermelon pieces and sometimes sticking those sticks in them. But the idea and creative part was left for the young and charming designers.

And what a wonderful pretend play they had afterwards. However, keep in mind that this 'furniture' will dry and will not look as good after 1 day.

Honestly,  not only I never thought I would write a post about watermelon craft, I  see MORE miniature watermelon play in a very near future. Keep checking on us, eating watermelon and saving the rind.

In case you are new here you should know that we love creating stuff that's usually on the way to the garbage bin. Check out more similar projects we did.

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  • DIY Spy Toy Box
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  1. Vita @ VitaLivesFree says

    June 28, 2014 at 4:36 pm

    Love this idea! One of my favourite posts ever. 🙂

    Reply
    • Birute Efe says

      June 28, 2014 at 8:55 pm

      Really? Thanks Vita. I was surprised myself how it turned out.

      Reply

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