Your kids love mazes, but theyve never seen something as incredibly COOL as thismaze potato!
Thisplant activity for kidsis perfect for spring or summer learning.
Maze Potato
Most children know that plants require planting materials, seed, water, and sunlight.
They observe a bean or pea sprout as a typicalplant activity for kindergarten.
It may surprise students to learn the lengths a plant will go to as they head towards the light.
This EPICpotato mazeis truly a coolplant activity for kids.
This also makes a really funsummer stemactivity forstem camp!
Potato Maze
So what do you should probably try this potato activity for kids?
Just a couple simple materials you probably have laying around your house!
Plant experiments for kids
Basically you get to make a maze for the vegetable to navigate.
So open up the side of a large box and start adding obstacles.
you’re able to make shelves with 3-4 holes to get to the next level.
you could make different gaps a la Mario games, or anything else you could think of.
We used recycled Amazon boxes for the main frame and cut out flaps from other boxes.
Then we taped on the ledges we made.
Finally, we added some purple duct tape for both style and function.
DOnt forget to make a door or put the lid back!
Plant Experiments for Kids
Put the potato in some moist soil in a small pot.
Cover with more soil.
Set the potato in the bottom level of your maze.
Give it a little water if the soil is dry.
You want the soil moist, but not wet or the potato will rot.
So water every couple of days or so with just a light sprinkling.
Once the potato gets some leaves it will start to go more quickly.
Keep the maze closed with the end of the maze in the sun.
See how the potato is starting to move towards the light source.
The amazing potato will keep working dilligently to get up to the sunlight that it needs to grow.
But dont worry, it will keep growing, be patient!
you’re able to see our potato has navigated several turns and twists.
