Lil' Spudz Kids Club

Play With Your Potatoes

Always be sure to check with your parents and get permission to play with your food!

Mr. Potato Snow Man

• With your parents help, make up some Idahoan® Original Mashed Potatoes
• Use an ice cream scoop to form the body of the snowman
• Use 2 peppercorns for the eyes and 3 peppercorns for the buttons
• Use an upside-down mushroom for the hat
• Tie a green onion for the scarf
• Use two rosemary leafs for arms
• Use a small sliver of carrot for the nose
• Use cucumber shavings for the mouth

Dinosaur Potato Sculptures

• With your parents help, make up some Idahoan® Original Mashed Potatoes
• If the potatoes are too creamy, add some more potato flakes to make it thick enough to sculpt.
• Jump right in and start shaping your dinosaur!
• For the Stegosaurus, use peppercorns for the eyes, artichokes cuts for the back spikes and almond slices for the spiky tail.

• For the Dimetrodon, use a sliced cauliflower for the back, cranberries for eyes, and apple seeds for teeth.

Kid Friendly Cooking

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  Idahoan Pizza

  A delicious recipe with a fun twist—pizza from potatoes! Easy to make and kid-friendly, this recipe promises to be a family-favorite for years to come!

Did You Know…… Fun Facts About Potatoes!

• Peru's Inca Indians were the first to cultivate potatoes in about 200 B.C.
• Potatoes contain vitamins and minerals that have been identified as vital to human nutrition. The notion that “all of the potato’s nutrients” are found in the skin is an urban legend. While the skin does contain approximately half of the total dietary fiber, more than 50% of the nutrients are found within the potato itself.
• One pound of dry Idahoan® Mashed Potatoes is equivalent to approximately 6 pounds of raw “fresh” potatoes. One pound of dry Idahoan Mashed Potatoes will make just over 6 pounds of prepared mashed potatoes.
• The United Nations officially declared the year 2008 as the International Year of the Potato in order to “increase awareness of the importance of the potato as a food in developing nations” and calling the vegetable a “hidden treasure”.
• Van Gogh's painting "The Potato Eaters" represents a family eating potatoes. Van Gogh said he wanted to depict peasants as they really were. "I wanted to convey the idea that the people eating potatoes by the light of an oil lamp used the same hands with which they take food from the plate to work the land, that they have toiled with their hands–that they have earned their food by honest means."

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