Hot Potato Game
Following a discussion of animals and plants that live underground, play this game. Seat the children in a circle. Pass a potato around the circle to the music. When the music stops, the child holding the potato has to name one vegetable that grows in soil or one animal that lives in the soil.
Activity provided by:
Story County Conservation Board
Nature Boxes for Early Childhood Educators
Debbi Williams
56461 180th St.
Ames, IA 50010
Story County Conservation
Age:
_ 0-1
_ 1-2
_ 2-3
_ 3-4
✓ 4-5
✓ 5-6
Category: Games
Iowa Early Learning Standards:
8.2, 9.4, 11.1,12.4, 14.3
Related Kindernature Resources:
_ 0-1
_ 1-2
_ 2-3
_ 3-4
✓ 4-5
✓ 5-6
Category: Games
Iowa Early Learning Standards:
8.2, 9.4, 11.1,12.4, 14.3
Related Kindernature Resources:
- A Corn Cob is a Seed Package
- Ants
- Ant Tricks
- Are You as Tall as a Sunflower
- Belly Hike
- Create a Garden
- Garden/Seed Songs
- Green Leaves Make Food
- Hi-Ho the Oak Tree Grows
- Jack-o-lantern from Seeds
- Life Under Your Feet
- Make an Ant Finger Puppet
- Pumpkin Song & Finger Play
- Queen of all of the Ants
- What’s Underground
- Wiggly Worms
