Materials:

one brown paper bag per child

scissors

paper scraps

glue

glitter/decorating materials

white construction paper

writing paper

“Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato” by Tommie DePaola

Read the story “Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato,” by Tommie De Paola.

Have each child, using scissors, cut out the shape of a potato. Then have them crinkle the paper, and carefully tear the edge of the potato so it looks “rough around the edges.” Have them smooth out the potato, and glue it down on the white paper.

Using scraps and other decorating materials, have your children decorate his or her potato making it into a person. (Encourage them to be creative, and make things such as pirates, doctors, football players, etc…) Once it is completed, I always add a writing activity with it. “This is no ordinary potato. It is a….”

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