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How to Use Potatoes for Kids' Games

Potatoes are starchy spuds parents love because they are versatile for eating and can be baked, fried, mashed or grilled. Parents should also love potatoes because they can be used for play. Multiple games that are fun for children and adults alike can be played starting with a simple potato out of the pantry.

Things You'll Need

  • Large potatoes
  • Mr. Potato Head game
  • Music player
  • Knife
  • Paper
  • Craft paints
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Instructions

  1. Mr. Potato Head

    • 1

      Wash the potatoes and let them dry. Microwave each potato for about three to five minutes to soften them up a little. Let them cool.

    • 2

      Hand each child a potato. Put Mr. Potato Head pieces (found online at eBay.com) in a bucket or on the floor and let the children pick and choose which pieces they'd like to use.

    • 3

      Instruct the children how to push the pieces into the potatoes to make faces or dress them up. Potatoes can then be used as dolls.

    Hot Potato

    • 4

      Have kids in a group stand in a circle to play the game Hot Potato.The object of the game is not to have the potato when the music stops.

    • 5

      Explain the rules to the children and then turn the music on. Keep the music player next to you so that you can stop the music when you need to.

    • 6

      Keep playing until one child is left and is the winner.

    Stamping

    • 7

      Carefully cut a clean potato in half. Carve out a design on the flesh of the potato. Carve about a quarter-inch deep into the flesh. The design should be more of an outline, but can have small details as well.

    • 8

      Cut along the circumference of the potato about a quarter-inch from the flesh edge. Carefully peel off the quarter-inch thick layer to discard. What should be left is a protruding piece shaped like your carving.

    • 9

      Dip the protruding carving into paint of any color and press it down on a blank piece of paper. You'll see your carving shape as a stamp on the paper. Dip the stamp in the same color or rinse the potato off, dry the potato and dip again in a different color.

    • 10

      Repeat Step 1 through Step 3 for as many stamps as you'd like. Ask the kids what patterns or designs they would like and make them.

      Do not let children carve their own potato stamps.


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