Önni Möö and Peruna (Potato) Bringing Learning to Life Through Play
Farm play has always fascinated children. Tractors, animals, and growing things trigger imagination and open paths to discovery. ProAgria’s project “Önni Möö and Peruna on the Farm” brings the spirit of the countryside back into children’s lives through play, storytelling, and curiosity.
Behind the project’s pedagogy is The Campus Company, working together with Fun Academy and the well-known Kip Crew characters to create experiences where learning truly comes alive.
Learning About Farming the Fun Way
For many children in Finland today, life on a farm feels distant. This project brings it closer again, reminding them of the joy that comes from doing, exploring, and connecting with nature. Through stories and play, children learn new words, discover how food grows, and think about what self-sufficiency means, not only for families but for whole communities.
As children gain knowledge and hands-on skills, they also build something deeper: resilience and confidence. They begin to see that understanding how things work in the real world helps them feel capable and secure.
Where Stories Lead Learning
At the heart of the project is the Fun Learning approach, which believes that the best learning happens through curiosity, collaboration, and play.
The story begins when the Kip Crew — Soca, Tuka, Maco, and Waaba — land on a Finnish farm after their journey through space. There they meet two friendly residents: Önni Möö, a curious little earthworm, and Peruna, a wise potato with plenty of stories to tell. Together they explore how a farm works from soil to seeds, and from people to technology (yes, even artificial intelligence).
ProAgria’s experts ensure that every topic children explore is based on real-life examples from Finnish farms, with accurate and up-to-date information presented in a playful, age-appropriate way. The goal is simple: to make expert knowledge accessible to children, and to give early educators free, ready-to-use materials that make it easy to bring learning to life.
Play, Explore, Discover
Every part of the project is designed to combine doing and understanding:
Play invitations spark imagination and get children started.
Vocabulary cards connect activities to learning goals.
Info cards introduce edible plants and agricultural professions.
Activity ideas for movement, investigation, and building invite children to experiment for themselves.
Although the activities follow a thoughtful pedagogical flow, the real guide is always the child’s curiosity. Children’s own questions and discoveries shape what happens next, turning every moment into an opportunity to learn together.
Learning Together, Growing Together
“Önni Möö and Peruna” is a joyful example of how storytelling and play can connect learning across subjects. With The Campus Company’s pedagogical expertise and the Fun Learning philosophy as its foundation, the project turns natural curiosity into meaningful, lasting learning.
Step by step, children not only explore how food, nature, and technology interact, they also begin to see their own place in this ecosystem.
The Kip Crew may already be familiar to many Finnish children through Protect Children’s digital and social emotional education materials https://www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en/post/the-kip-crew-learns-about-feelings-activity-booklet-all-language-versions and workshops. The same characters continue their adventures with new first graders in the “This Worksi!” technology education project by the Technology Industries of Finland www.thisworks.fi available also in English.
When play is real, learning lasts.