Potato Head
Try this game with a real potato, and make facial features from clay, felt scraps, or miniature marshmallows.
By: Trish Kuffner, author of The Children's Busy Book
Potato Head
Materials
- Large baking potato
- Scrub brush
- Play dough or clay, felt scraps, buttons, raisins, miniature marshmallows, toothpicks, yarn or old plastic scouring pad, fabric or ribbon scraps
Directions
- Clean the potato well with a scrub brush. Give your child an assortment of items with which to decorate her potato.
- She can make facial features from play dough or clay, felt scraps, buttons, raisins, or miniature marshmallows and attach them with short toothpick pieces.
- She can use yarn or an old plastic scouring pad for hair and use fabric or ribbon scraps for a collar or hair decoration.
- If you like, have each family member create her own potato head.
- Photograph the potato head family before they become dinner.