Potato faces

Ingredients

To make some fun faces out of baked potatoes, ask an adult to help you find these ingredients and pieces of equipment.

Ingredients

• 1 large baking potato or sweet potato for each person in your family

• some of the toppings below to make the characters on pages 4, 5, 6 and 7

To make Owl Eyes

• cucumber, peas, carrot, red pepper

To make Pesto Man

• pesto, black olives, baby sweetcorn, green pepper, grated cheese

To make Bean Head

• baked beans, cucumber, green olives, sweetcorn, cottage cheese

To make Sweetie - using sweet potato

• alfalfa sprouts, sweetcorn, stuffed olives, tomatoes, radishes

Equipment

• fork

• small sharp knife

• chopping board

• oven

1 potato makes 2 faces

Remember! Ask an adult to help with all the peeling and chopping. Wash your hands before you start.

Step 1

First prick the potatoes with a fork.

Then, ask an adult to bake them in a hot oven (220ºC, 425ºF or Gas Mark 7) for about an hour or until a fork will easily go through the potato.

If you are using sweet potato, only bake for about 40 minutes.

Step 2

Ask the adult to cut the cooked potatoes in half longways.

Let the potatoes cool down a little then try out some of the faces on the next few pages – or make up your own!

Owl eyes

Make your potato look like an owl like this:

• Eyes - cucumber and peas
• Nose - carrot
• Mouth - red pepper

Pesto Man

Scoop out the potato and mash it together with a teaspoonful of pesto then put it back in the potato skin.

Now add these:

• Eyes - black olives
• Nose - baby sweetcorn
• Mouth - green pepper
• Hair - grated cheese

Bean Head

Scoop out the potato and mash it up with some cottage cheese then put it back in the potato skin.

Now add these:

• Hair - baked beans
• Eyes - cucumber
• Nose - green olive
• Mouth - sweetcorn
• Arms and legs - carrot sticks

Sweetie

Try using sweet potato instead. It is quicker to cook (bake for about 40 minutes) and tastes delicious!

Make a face from these:

• Hair - alfalfa sprouts
• Eyebrows - sweetcorn
• Eyes - stuffed olives
• Nose - radish
• Mouth - tomato

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