Learning With My Boys

She just loves watermelon, so we did a “One in a Melon” party. She just loved the balloons and swimming pool.

Watermelon Tie Dye Shirts

I made tie dye shirts for the kids!

Watermelon Shoes

I found a pair of read shoes and added a green stripe with a Sharpie around the base, then I added black seeds!

Watermelon Decorations

Baby girl loves the balloons and points to them everyday for a week after the party!

I made a watermelon banner of monthly photos of Baby!

“One in a Melon”

Watermelon Food

We had lots of watermelon themed foods and candies!

Fruit Pizza

Ingredients:

• 1 Sugar Cookie Dough
• 1 Marshmallow Cream
• 1 Cream Cheese
• strawberries
• kiwi
• mini chocolate chips

Directions:

1. First grease a pizza sheet and place roll out the sugar cookie dough about 1/4 inch thick.
2. Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.
3. Let it completely cool.
4. Mix together the marshmallow cream and the cream cheese and cover the cookie.
5. Cut the fruit to small pieces and decorate to look like a watermelon.

Watermelon Cake

I cut off the sides of the watermelon and made stacked the chunks together. Then I added berries with toothpicks.

Watermelon Punch

INGREDIENTS:

• 14 lb. seedless watermelon
• 1 and 1/2 cups pineapple juice
• 1 and 1/2 cups sparkling water

DIRECTIONS:

1. Cut about one third off the top of your watermelon, then scoop out all the insides from both sides, and save the larger half for your “watermelon bowl”.
2. Blend the pieces of watermelon in a blender for several minutes to be sure there are no chunks.
3. Add pineapple juice and sparkling water to the “watermelon bowl” and pour in your strained watermelon juice.
4. Mix together and chill the punch and bowl in the fridge for about an hour or until ready to serve.

Watermelon Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 ½ cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• Red and Green food coloring
• Mini Chocolate Chips

Directions:

1. In a bowl cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
2. In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms.
3. Divide dough into 2 parts and color one part red and one part green with food coloring.
4. Shape the dough like a watermelon and add mini chocolate chips as the seeds.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
6. Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned and let cool.
7. Add buttercream icing (see buttercream recipe below) and mini chocolate chips.

Watermelon Cake

I followed the directions on the white cake box, but use the Minute Maid Watermelon juice instead of water and added pink food color. After I mixed up the cake I add the sprinkles to act like the seeds!

Buttercream Icing

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup Crisco
• 4 cups powdered sugar (2 lbs)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 tablespoon milk (if thick)

Directions:

1. Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
2. Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
3. Add the vanilla, if it seems too thick you can add a bit of milk.

Watermelon Smash Cake

I made a smaller version of the cake for her smash cake, which she wasn’t too into.

Water Play

I found a watermelon sprinkler blow up pool and added water balloons too. This was a BIG hit with the bigger kids!

Watermelon slip-n-slide fun!

Happy, Happy Birthday to you, Baby Girl!