Watermelon Coloring Pages

Watermelon rarely stays a tidy snack for long. A cold wedge starts out neatly in two hands, then juice finds its way to a chin, a sleeve, or the picnic blanket. Its crisp sweetness is usually worth the trouble, especially on a day when everyone keeps going back for another slice.

There is something immediately cheerful about that green rind and bright flesh. Watermelon coloring pages share the fruit's easy summer appeal, whether summer means a crowded backyard table or bare feet on a balcony. Even carrying a whole melon home has a sense of occasion: it is a rather large promise of something good to share.

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Wrap a Small Present in a Fruit Pattern

Whole watermelons and seeded slices mingle with strawberries, grape bunches and citrus rounds across this page. Because the fruit continues throughout the design, a folded edge can hide a few pieces without losing the pattern, making it useful for wrapping a small present.

Use pink watermelon flesh, green rinds and purple grapes, with yellow or orange for the citrus. Leaving the spaces between the fruit white will keep the wrapping bright.

Check that the sheet reaches around the present before coloring it. For a larger package, use the finished page as a wide band over plain wrapping paper, with one whole melon facing upward and the join tucked underneath.

Put a Message on the Watermelon's Gift Box

A whole watermelon is quite a substantial present, and this one has a big bow to match. The open box flaps leave room for a short message, turning the picture into a playful thank-you for someone who has shared fruit from a garden or brought food to a gathering.

Choose a blue box and a red bow against the green melon. Keep one upper flap light enough for the message to remain easy to read.

Write Thanks a Melon on that flap, fitting the words inside its sloping edges. Add the giver's name below the box rather than squeezing it around the ribbon, which already fills much of the front.

Make a Little Guide to the Watermelon Vine

The melon sits on the ground, with a flower, broad leaves and curling tendrils above it. For a child used to seeing watermelon only in a shop, this page gives the fruit a place on the plant rather than on a shelf.

Add three short labels in the open space: fruit, leaf and flower. Draw a small line from each word to its matching part, keeping the lines outside the melon wherever possible.

Two shades of green can separate the rind stripes from the leaves, with yellow for the flower. If there is a vegetable patch nearby, take the page along and look for curling tendrils on a real climbing or trailing plant.

Hide the Watermelon Slice Under a Little Flap

The seeded slice in front shows what is hidden inside the large whole melon, while two smiling bees hover above. A simple paper flap over the slice can turn this into a little reveal for a child learning how familiar fruit looks before it is cut.

Use red or pink inside the slice with a pale strip beside the green rind, and yellow-and-black stripes on the bees. Finish the coloring before adding the flap.

Fold a small rectangle of paper over the slice and glue only its upper folded edge to the sheet. Write Inside on the cover, then lift it to reveal the flesh and seeds beneath the cheerful garden visitors.

Borrow Wing Colors from a Garden Butterfly

A photo of a butterfly that visited the garden could give these two visitors their colors. A picture in a nature book works too. Choose it for the wing markings you like, without needing to identify the printed butterflies as the same species.

Borrow an orange-and-dark-brown combination for one pair of wings and a pale blue for the other. Keep the melon green and the flowers soft pink so the wing colors remain noticeable above them.

The broad wing spaces and little shapes around their borders offer places for different parts of the reference. A dark outer edge or a row of light spots may be enough to recall the butterfly that caught your attention.