You will need:
- a medium-sized
play space
- a plastic containier
with cold water in it and an old towel
- a small ball
or other small item
- music
What to do:
- have children
sit in a circle on the floor
- place the
container of water and the towel in the middle
- give the ‘hot
potato’ to one child
- start the
music and encourage children to pass the ‘hot potato’ around the circle
from one friend to the next
- when the music
stops, the child with the ‘hot potato’ must say "OUCH!"
and drop the ‘hot potato’
- he/she must
then quickly stand up and go to the middle of the circle where the
container of cold water is and dip his/her finger in the cold water
and say "AHHHH!" (treatment
for minor burns)
- that child
then dries his/her hand and returns to their spot in the circle
- resume the
music and the game
- play until
all children have had a turn or time runs out
- keep track
of whoever didn’t get a turn in the middle for next time
