Hawk eats frog is a game designed to allow children to discover the basic concepts that regulate how a food chain works, stimulating curiosity about the biodiversity of lake environments which are often threatened by human actions. When playing Hawk eats frog, you will have to create food chains to score as many points as possible, making sure to match the plant and animal cards together in the right "food chain" sequence that connects them: therefore hawk eats frog, but frog does not eat hawk! Warning: pollution prevents food chains from functioning and interrupts them!

The game is intended for 2-5 players aged 7 years and up. Each game lasts for approximately 15-20 minutes. 

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Materials

The game is made up of 60 triangular cards, to be placed side by side while respecting the order of the food chain. Each colour represents a different role in the food chain, that is, as scientists would say, a different "trophic level":

Green: plants at the basis of the food chain

Purple: herbivores eat plants

Yellow: first level predators eat herbivores

Orange: second level predators eat the first level ones

Red: top predators eat the second level ones

Light blue: water is essential for life

Black: pollution can destroy the food chain

Point charts

Game Objective

By playing and having fun, children ages 7 and up can:

• Learn about how food chains work
• Practice their memory
• Get to know the flora and fauna of the lake environment

Leaf through the instruction booklet to find out more and get to know the game:

THE AUTHOR

Silvia Crocicchi Class of 1983, illustrator and author since 2005, she loves nature and is inspired by it on every occasion. She collaborates and / or has collaborated with Erickson, Rusconi, Mondadori Piemme, Buk Buk, Edizioni Paoline, Clementoni, Headu, Lunii, Chiare Edizioni, StoryBox creative Lab and many others.