Ingredients

  • 1 (7 to 8-pound) watermelon, preferably seedless
  • 1 pint cantaloupe, cut into chunks
  • 2 pints fresh strawberries, sliced
  • 2 pints fresh blueberries
  • 1 pound green grapes, plus 2 red grapes
  • 1 papaya, cut into chunks
  • 1 inner leafy celery stalk

Method

  • With a pencil, trace the body of the whale onto the skin of the watermelon.
  • Then with an x-acto knife, carefully cut out around the tracing you have made.
  • To remove the cut out pieces, gently insert the knife as far in as possible without piercing the other side and push the cut piece out.
  • To make the eyes and water hole, use an apple corer to punch them out.
  • Remove the inside of the watermelon with a large spoon or melon baller and place them in a large bowl.
  • Cut the watermelon pieces away from the rind and cut into chunks.
  • Drain the excess juice from the watermelon into a bowl.
  • Combine the cantaloupe, strawberries, blueberries, green grapes and papaya in a large bowl.
  • Add watermelon to mixed fruit.
  • Combine well and toss into sculpted whale.
  • Stick the leafy celery stalk inside the water hole as "spouting water".
  • Put a red grape inside each eye hole.