Make Your Own Super - Potato?

Superheroes, sidekicks, villains, and giant battles to save the galaxy are cool. Everybody knows that. So what do you need to make your own? Well, anything you want.

For example, a group of kids and I recently started with nothing more than a potato. A Potatosaurus, to be exact. Which was basically a potato with legs and eyeballs and a couple of sprouts sticking out of its head.

Next, people started drawing pictures of the Potatosaurus attacking cities and eating everybody. Not good, right? This guy needed someone to battle.

Enter Super Fridge. It turned out Super Fridge could throw food at people. He was friends with Butter Man, who was the only guy who could plug the Fridge in when he ran out of power. He also had his own little shelf in the Fridge.

Here's what the Potatosaurus-Fridge battle looked like. That's Butter in the middle. Those are Tater Tots attacking Fridge's head. That's food in Fridge's mouth.

Well it got weirder from there, and pretty soon we had to make a chart showing all the characters. It was the appliances vs. the foods, except Butter who sided with Fridge. There was Kiwi Man, and Banana Dude, and Pancake Batter Boy (who looked like Batman). And the Tater Tots all had their own names. Oh, and Cooler, who could throw juice boxes. And I think a microwave, and a lemon battling a bowl of soup.

At the end we copied all the drawings and put them into a short book, which we called "Kitchen Wars."

So as you can see, you can make the ultimate Battle for Earth happen using just about anything. You just need a hero, a villain, some sidekicks, superpowers and weaknesses, and some pencils and paper.

So go save the Earth! Or the galaxy, if you want something bigger.