Watermelon Picnic At The Park In Summer Heat Coloring Page

A whole watermelon sits in the middle of a checked picnic rug with five cut wedges arranged in front of it, three leaning forward and two behind. The whole fruit is drawn with long curving stripes running pole to pole, and every wedge carries a scatter of dark seeds across the flesh with the rind marked as a thin band along the curve. The rug is laid out in a grid of squares and reaches almost the full width of the page. Behind it the park rises gently: two full round trees with thick trunks, a sapling between them, and grass tufts across the slope.

The rug is the piece that will teach something. It is a plain grid, so a child can work out a repeating two color check and then has to hold it across forty squares without losing track.

The seeds are already filled in dark, which saves the fiddliest job on the page.

Seeded watermelons are getting hard to buy. Almost everything sold now is a seedless hybrid, which is grown by crossing two plants with mismatched chromosome counts, so the fruit sets but the seeds never harden.