
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:
- First grease a pizza sheet and place roll out the sugar cookie dough about 1/4 inch thick.
- Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.
- Let it completely cool.
- Mix together the marshmallow cream and the cream cheese and cover the cookie.
- 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:
- 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”.
- Blend the pieces of watermelon in a blender for several minutes to be sure there are no chunks.
- Add pineapple juice and sparkling water to the “watermelon bowl” and pour in your strained watermelon juice.
- 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:
- In a bowl cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
- In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms.
- Divide dough into 2 parts and color one part red and one part green with food coloring.
- Shape the dough like a watermelon and add mini chocolate chips as the seeds.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned and let cool.
- 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:
- Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
- Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
- 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!




