Exploring Watermelons

This week in the baby room we continued to explore all things associated with summer, we decided to create another edible sensory experience using watermelons. First, we gave some of the watermelon into Ziplock bags so that they could visually explore the watermelon and its seeds by squishing it Inside the bag, this enabled the children who were not too keen on the texture to still explore and enjoy the experience. To extend this we then froze the watermelon inside the bags to enable for a further sensory experience whilst they explored the temperature and investigated and observed the texture as it defrosted. each of the babies their own half of a watermelon and allowed them to use their hands and spoons to scoop out the fruit. The babies love being able to taste as they play so this activity was a great way for them to explore. We then encouraged the babies to use their hands to scoop