Toy Tuesday – Mr Potato Head

Here are some of my favourite ideas:
1. Learning body parts, match the parts to your self and name them on Mr Potato head.
2. Practicing verbs: make the potato heads and then get them to do different actions, it’s great for kids developing action words and is a really fun and practical way to do this!
3. Sequencing skills: make the potatoes and then draw or use picture prompts to retell the order that you put the body parts on
4. Conversational play: practice getting the potatoes to talk to each other, you can practice greetings e.g. ‘Hi Potato, how are you?’ or asking questions: ‘Would you like to go for a walk?’ (Potatoes then walk together).
5. Emotions: most sets come with ‘happy’ and ‘angry’ eyes, you can also turn the mouths upside down to make them sad and give the potatoes tongues sticking out for silly faces!
6. Encouraging imagination and description: make ‘silly’ potatoes with things in the wrong places, kids love this!! They can then describe them to you.

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