World Turtle Day / Turtle Diet Tong Relay
Turtle Diet Tong Relay
Teams use tongs to feed their turtle the right food, such as seagrass for green turtles or shellfish for loggerheads, while avoiding plastic look-alikes that turtles can mistake for food.
How to run it
- Fill a tub with green paper seagrass, shell pictures, clear jellyfish cut from bubble wrap and plastic bags.
- Give each team a turtle card showing what its species eats.
- One at a time, players run to the tub, pick one correct food item with tongs and run it back to their team's turtle.
- Any plastic picked up must be returned and costs a turn.
- Discuss how turtles can mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish.
You will need
- kitchen tongs
- large tub
- green paper strips
- shell pictures
- bubble wrap
- clean plastic bags
- turtle diet cards
Make it easier or harderYounger children can use hands instead of tongs; older children can play with time limits and several turtle species at once.
SafetyKeep plastic bags away from young children's faces and clear the running lane.
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