One of his five-a-day? Taiwan dad makes watermelon underpants for son

A Taiwanese father showed some unorthodox parenting skills by fashioning underwear for his young son made from a large watermelon.

Ruifeng Fan, 33, produced the bizarre pants for his young son Hao when the youngster complained about being too hot.

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Fan, from Taipei, said that as the family don’t have a swimming pool, the watermelon pants were the next best way to cool down.

He said: 'I gave him a watermelon to eat which is usually the best way to cool down and after cutting out the inside I suddenly thought that actually the watermelon itself could probably be used to make a really cool pair of underpants.

'So I cut out two holes for his legs and fitted it with a makeshift pair of braces, and he instantly had the coolest underpants in town.'
 
Hao loved the underpants so much, his dad later made him a watermelon hat and watermelon boxing gloves.
 
Ruifeng's son Hao said the watermelon was cold but he quickly realised we had was pretty unique, and enjoyed the attention from neighbours as he paraded around in his new underwear.