Shark Bite Watermelon!

Here's how you make the cute shark I served at Ethan's Pool 
Party! It went along with the Summer theme so I decided to try it!

I saw this awesome tutorial over at {Sun Scholars} called Bite 
into Summer Vacation! She got her inspiration from this 
awesome site the {National Watermelon Promotion Board} 
check it out they have some AWESOME watermelon carvings 
I'm going definitely have to try! I didn't make my shark exactly 
like these two tutorials had them due to the ingredients I 
had available. So here's my version of this cool summer 
Shark :) Here's how I started:

Ingredients You'll Need:

1 Watermelon
2 Blue Jello packets
1 Bag of Swedish fish candies

Black Olives for eyes

Toothpicks 

Round plastic tray
Foil to cover the tray

Large cutting knife

Small carving knife
1/2 tbs scoop (or melon baller)

Directions:

1.) Make Your Ocean Water

I just followed the directions on the Jello boxes and

boiled water and threw in the mixes and left the bowl

in the fridge to cool for 4 hours, so easy ;) 

 2.) Prepare The Round Tray

I coverd my round plastic serving tray with foil to 

hold in the watermelon juice and the blue jello.

3.) Cut Your Watermelon

Here's where you'll decide what end would be a better

shark's head. Wash your watermelon and slice the opposite

end you decide will be the shark's head, slice it at an 

angle so it looks like the shark's kind of jumping out

of the water :0

Next you will cut out the shark's mouth wedge out,

place the watermelon on it's side and do this very carefully. 

Ta da! You have your shark MOUTH!

Next take your small knife and score around your

shark mouth about 2-3 inches deep, the score line

show you where to start peeling off the watermelon

skin. This part is tedious and kind of dangerous so 

be careful with that small sharp knife! Ouch! 
Don't cut yourself!

Can you see the score line? Now carefully carve away

the watermelon skin.. and when I say carefully, I 

mean CAREFULLY! It was kind of scary working 

with this little small sharp knife, I don't usually carve 

anything, you'll see it didn't look the best but it 

was my first try, I think I did okay!

4.) Scoop Out The Watermelon  
Scoop out the inside with a 1/2 tbs scoop.. you can 
also use a melon baller, I actually don't have one but 
prob should get one it seems like it would have been 
useful in this case and would have made the watermelon 
a little more interesting but the 1/2 tbs scoop worked for me. 

Set it aside for later..

5.) Carve The Teeth Out
Now here's the fun part! Carving the shark's teeth!
This was my most favorite part of this whole project,

I loved this part because you can be creative and free! 
Carve little triangles on the upper and bottom parts - 
for the teeth! I also placed a paper towel at the bottom 
so the watermelon's a little more stable.

Check it out:

6.) Add The Eyes

For the eyes I used black olives since I had them on

hand, you can use blueberries, black marbles or anything

black really... you can carve out a little place that looks

like the eye socket for fun! You can even carve gills, I

didn't. For the eyes just break a tooth pick in half and

poke a small hole through the olive and then place the

toothpick into the eye socket you carved out on the water-

melon. Easy peasy!! Place eyes on both sides of the shark!

7.) Add the Shark Fin

For the shark fin your going to cut a wedge from

the remaining parts of watermelon and adhere it

on to the back of the shark with 2 toothpicks. 

8.) Adding The Finishing Touches

Time to add the Ocean Water, the rest of the watermelon 

scooped up and the Swedish Fish!

Scoop out your Blue jello and place it around the shark

that will sit in the middle of your covered plastic tray and

adorn with red Swedish fishes, swimming all around it!

Add back in the little cut up watermelon!

Then your done..Ready to serve!

Hope you can try this fun treat out for a party!

Your kids will definitely have fun with this one!

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