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PIZZA BINGO
make up cards with pictures of things that go on pizza (dough, sauce, pepperoni, etc) and then make cards to call that match the playing cards.
HOW DO YOU MAKE A PIZZA GROW?
How do you make a pizza grow?
You pound and you pull and you stretch the dough
And throw in tomatoes and oregano.
Pizza platter for twenty-two
Pour on the oil and soak it through.
Pizza slices for forty-four,
Chop up onions, make some more.
Pizza pie for sixty-six
With mozzarella cheese that melts and sticks.
Pizza, pizza for ninety-nine
With pepperoni sausage ground-up fine.
Pizza, pizza stretch the dough.
Pizza, pizza make it grow.
-Eve Merriam
PIZZA COOKBOOK
This can easily be done in one of the great pizza shaped books ideas I have seen here. One on one sit with a child and ask them how to make a pizza, if the child isn't sure then ask how does Mommy or Daddy make pizza. Guide your questions to "what do you do first?" and "how would you do that?" write down word for word what they say. After all the children have had a chance to do one, have them make a picture of their favorite pizza and photocopy a set of everyone's for each child or display as a class book. Read them all out loud and listen to the giggles. We had a blast!!!!
BUILD A PIZZA
Submitted by Janice
Materials:
Cardboard;scissors;construction paper(red,gray,pink,green and yellow);claer contact paper;dice;pizza box
What to do:
4 children can play the game at one time
cut out 4 6" circles from a piece of cardboard. These will be the pizza crusts
cut out 4 slightly smaller circles from red construction paper. These will represent the sauce
cut out 8 mushroom shapes from gray paper, 12 pepperoni shapes from pink paper, 12 green pepper rings from green paper and 16 strips of cheese fro yellow paper
cover all shapes in contact paper or laminate
The object of the game is to complete a pizza using all of the required ingredients by rolling the appropriate # on the dice. In turn, each child will need to roll a 1 in order to begin
When a child rolls a 1, give her one of the crusts. Continue in turn to construct a pizzza as follows:
Roll a 2, get sauce (one needed)
Roll a 3, get a mushroom (two needed)
Roll a 4, get a green pepper (three needed)
Roll a 5, get a strip of cheese (four needed)
The first child to build a pizza can cheer in the others
Store in the pizza box.
PIZZA FINGERPLAY
Its round and made of dough
Topped with sauce and cheese just so.
(Form circle with hands)
It's a big round treat
Filled with vegetables and meat.
{Rub tummy}
It's a pizza cooked just right.
Are you ready? Have a bite!
{Pretend to eat pizza}
PIZZA CHANT FOR FLANNELBOARD
Make 8 pizza slices for the flannelboard. As you call out a child's name in the chant, that child takes a
slice from the board. You can also reverse it, with each child adding a slice instead of taking it.
8 pieces of pizza
tasty as can be,
(child's name) can eat a slice
and leave some for me.
7 pieces of pizza
tasty as can be,
(child's name) can eat a slice
and leave some for me.
[continue counting down]
1 piece of pizza
tasty as can be,
(child's name) can eat a slice
and leave none for me.
Yum, Yum,
that was fun!
We love a pizza party!
Pizza fingerplay (Italy)?
Cut five pizza shapes out of felt. Decorate them as described in the poem
below. Using felt scraps or felt-tip markers. Then place the shapes on a
flannelboard and recite the poem.
Five little pizzas all in a row.
The first one said,
"Im made with pepperoni, you know"
the second one said,
"Im made with sausage and cheese."
The third one said,
"Don't eat me, please."
The forth one said,
"Ill be your dinner tonight,'
The fifth one said,
"someone has taken a bite!"
Five little pizzas all in a row.
Would you like to eat them?
Yes, I know.
PIZZA SONGS
Pizza poem
(tune of 10 little Indians)
One little, two little, three little pizzas.
Four little, five little, six little pizzas.
Seven little, eight little, nine little pizzas.
Ten little pizzas ready to be delivered!
Cut out felt circles and place on flannelboard as you
sing the song. Or put up the required number of fingers as you sing.
On Top Of My Pizza
(tune: On top of Spaghetti)
On top of my pizza,
All covered with sauce.
I lost my pepperoni
When it rolled off the top!
It rolled under the table
And onto the floor.
It rolled over the carpet
And then out the door!
Pizza Shop
Down around the corner in the pizza shop
There were lots of pieces of pizza with pepperoni on top
Along came (child's name) all alone
He (or She) bought one that had (# of pepperonis) pepperoni
And took it home
Note: Do this with a pizza drawing (or feltboard) removing a piece of
pizza with the specified number of pepperonis with each verse.
LITTLE RED HEN MAKES A PIZZA
Little Red Hen (Makes A Pizza), Philemon Sturges
Summary: When the little red hen finds a can of tomato sauce in her pantry,
she decides to make a pizza. But, she doesn't have all the ingredients
necessary. She asks friends to help her, but they answer with "not I" until
they all want to eat the huge pie.
This book is a repetitive story that children can easily follow and join in.
It has fabulous pictures that show a variety of foods and utensils that can
lead to terrific language development.
PIZZA PIE ON FLOOR
Put masking tape down on the rug in a circle shape. Then add lines through the circle tp look like a pizza. have children try to see how many of them fit in each slice, on the whole pizza. Play a game where someone pretends to eat a piece and the children have to find another slice to move on to until they cannot fit anymore.
Leave the pizza set up and give the children manipulatives to put on the pizza, "how many peperoni(milk tops or blocks) fit on a slice etc?"
PIZZA DOGS
You need:
Glass baking dish - square or rectangle non-stick cooking spray
hot dogs - sliced almost in half
spaghetti or pizza sauce
shredded cheese - I use shredded Mexican but any shredded cheese will do.
How to make:
Set over to 375 degrees F. Spray inside of glass baking dish with cooking spray. Place hot dogs side by side in the baking dish with sliced side up. Bake for approximately 15 minutes on middle shelf of oven. Pull out of oven and spread a layer of spaghetti or pizza sauce over the hot dogs. Make sure it goes into the sliced part. Sprinkle shredded cheese over the sauce...use a lot! Bake for approximately 7 minutes or until the cheese is melted and slightly brown. Serve!
Strawberry Pizza
A sweet, fruitful summertime recipe.
by Michele Urvater
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 12 minutes
Servings: 4
This "pizza" is perfect as a sweet afternoon snack for the whole family. While the dish works with many kinds of fruit, it looks most like a real pizza when it's made with fresh strawberry rounds.
1 refrigerated, unbaked 9-inch pie crust
1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese or low-fat cottage cheese
2-3 teaspoons sugar
1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pint fresh strawberries-hulled, rinsed, dried, and cut into 1/4-inch-thick rounds
1/4 cup low-fat vanilla yogurt or plain yogurt mixed with a drop of vanilla extract and 1 teaspoon sugar
1. Preheat the oven to 450°F. Remove pie crust from its pouch and unfold. Peel off top layer of plastic and dust crust with flour. Place crust, floured side down, on a baking sheet and remove second piece of plastic. (If crust cracks, wet your fingers and push cracks together to seal.) Prick center of crust with a fork, and bake 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Transfer to a cake rack and let cool completely.
2. Puree cheese in a blender, then combine with sugar and vanilla extract. Spread mixture on the cooked crust to within 1/2 inch of outside rim.
3. Arrange strawberry rounds (make sure they don't overlap) on top of cheese. Stir yogurt well and drizzle across strawberries so it resembles melted mozzarella. Refrigerate until cool and serve.
Nutritional information per slice: 369 cal, 20 g fat, 9 g saturated fat, 49% cal from fat, 10 g protein, 37 g carbohydrates, 354 mg sodium, 34 mg cholesterol
MINI HEART PIZZAS
Need: Refrigerated biscuits, pizza
sauce, mozarella cheese, pepperonis, and heart cutter.
Flatten out bisuits, cut out a heart, then make as a
pizza!!
5 LITTLE PIZZAS
Submitted by Kim
Cut five pizza shapes out of felt. Decorate them as described in the poem below. Using felt scraps or felt-tip markers. Then place the shapes on a flannelboard and recite the poem.
Five little pizzas all in a row.
The first one said,
"Im made with pepperoni, you know"
the second one said,
"Im made with sausage and chesse."
The third one said,
"dont eat me, please."
The forth one said,
"Ill be your dinner tonight,'
The fith one said,
"someone has taken a bite!"
Five little pizzas all in a row.
Would you like to eat them?
Yes, I know.
PIZZA DAY ACTIVITIES
I Wish I Were a Pepperoni Pizza
(sung to "The Oscar Mayer Theme Song)
Oh, I wish I were a pepperoni pizza,
That is what I'd truly like to be.
For if I were a pepperoni pizza,
Everyone would be in love with me!
Additional verses: "Oh, I wish I were a cheese and sausage pizza; an olive and mushroom pizza," etc. let the children take turns naming their favorite kinds of pizza and singing about them.
Small, Medium, Large
Make 3 pizzas out of posterboard, one small, one medium, and one large. Talk about the differences in size. Then one at a time, give the children sets of 3 objects in small, medium, and large sizes (stuffed animals, toy cars paper pumpkin shapes, etc.) Have them sort the objects by placing them next to the matching sized pizzas.
Collage Pizzas
Make paint by mixing red powder tempera paint with liquid starch. Cut various kinds of pizza topping shapes out of colored construction paper (brown pepperoni circles, black olive ovals, yellow pineapple wedges, green pepper ringsm tan mushroom slices, etc.). Pour yellow cornmeal into a shaker container.
Give each child a pizza wheel (or a circle cut out of cardboard). Have the children brush the red paint "tomato sauce" generously over their pizza wheels.
Then let them arrange the pizza topping shapes on top of the wet paint and sprinkle on yellow cornmeal for cheese.
Mini Pizzas
Prepare a variety of pizza toppings. Include tomato and cheese plus any other toppings the children might like. Have the children place refrigerator biscuits on a cookie sheet and press them flat to make mini pizza crusts. Then let then put on their choice of toppings. Bake the pizzas at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.
Variation: Use toasted English muffin halves. Place the pizzas under a broiler until the cheese is hot and bubbly.
PIZZA IDEAS
Pizza Snacks
English Muffin Pizzas
Materials:
pizza sauce
cheese
spoon
baking sheet
english muffin (1/2 per child)
Have the children spread pizza sauce over top of muffin. Then they can add cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 - 11 minutes.
Pizza Pockets
Materials:
Spoon
Grands Biscuits
Pizza Sauce
Cheese
Sausage
Roll out biscuit to make it 5 inches in diameter. Then spoon on sauce, cheese, and sausage leaving about a half inch from the sides. The fold over to form a pocket and seal edges by pressing with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 - 15 minutes.
Make Your Own Pizza
Have the children bring in their favorite pizza toppings. Then make the individual crusts, spread on the sauce, add toppings, and then add the cheese. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or until cheese is a light brown.
Biscuit/Bagel Pizzas
Take refrigerator biscuits and flatten out or bagels. Then add sauce, add topping to resemble a face, and cheese. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
MATH:
Sorting - Sort toppings on pizza into food groups.
Serration - Laminate small, medium and large pizzas. Have the children put in order smallest to largest and then largest to smallest.
Matching - Laminate 2 of the same pizzas. Have the children match the like pizzas.
Graphing - Have the children graph favorite toppings on their pizza.
Sequencing - Have the children put in order how to make a pizza. (make crust, spread on pan, spread sauce, add toppings, add cheese, bake, and then eat.)
Fractions - divide whole pizza into a 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4.
MUSIC:
Pizza...
Piz-za, piz-za. Let's have piz-za!
Let's have piz-za with cheese on top!
Piz-za, piz-za. Let's have piz-za!
(Anyone's name) wants piz-za with (what ever topping they mention) on top!
Pizza Song... (Twinkle, Twinkle)
Pizza, pizza it's a treat.
Pizza, pizza is fun to eat!
Ooey-gooey cheese so yummy.
Crunchy crust goes in my tummy.
Pizza, pizza it's a treat.
Pizza, pizza is fun to eat!
This is the way....
This is the way we roll the dough
roll the dough, roll the dough,
This is the way we roll the dough when we make a pizza.
Verses:
This is the way we grade the cheese.
This is the way we cut the meat.
This is the way we bake the pizza.
Five Little Pizzas
Five little pizzas sitting in a row, toss one up, then there was four.
Four little pizzas.....
Three little pizzas........
Two little pizzas........
One little pizza......
No little pizzas.....
Roll Your Dough (Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Roll, roll, roll your dough
smoothly as can be.
Roll it till it's big and round,then add some good toppings.
A Pizza Hut
A Pizza Hut! A Pizza Hut! Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut!
McDonald's, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Pizza Hut!
When we were driving down the street
My mother asked me where I wanted to eat.
(repeat chorus)
My dad said, "Please make up your mind, or all the places will be left behind."
(repeat chorus)
Who Stole the Pizza from the Pizza Pan?
1st child says: who stole the pizza from the pizza pan?
1st child chooses another child and says: __________ stole the pizza from the pizza pan.
Choosen child says: Who me?
1st child: Yes you!
Choosen child: Couldn't be!
1st child: Then who?
(repeat choosing another child until every child has a turn)
Making The Crust...
Set out white playdoh and have the children roll it out with small rolling pins. You can add different colored playdoh for the children to add topping if you wish.
Paper Pizza Reward Chart Or Puzzle...
Draw a large circle on white poster board with a smaller sized circle inside (3/4" in from outside circle). Have the children color in the "crust" (the outer circle) a tanish/brown crust color and the inner circle color in a reddish orange for the sauce.Glue on paper food... we use pink Canadian bacon, red pepperoni, brown hand torn pieces of sausage, tan mushrooms,little "dices" of green pepper and the best, but most tedious small sliver strips of white mozzarella cheese (it's best to put these on by putting on several at a time) we glue all these on to our crust with white glue. Once dry I use contact paper as a laminate to cover the top of the pizza so no pieces fall off. Draw lines so that there are 8 pieces of pizza and let the kids cut them out. Child needs to write there name on back of each slice of pizza. Put the pieces together in order matching up your slices with the one that should be next to it...number the slices in clockwise order. Then glue magnets to the back of each slice. Once dry the children have a wonderful pizza puzzle that they can take home. We use ours as incentive charts...if child does something extra special that day they get a slice of pizza. When chart is complete they get a reward!
Pizza Toss
Throwing frisbies and pretend they are pizza crusts.
Pizza Relay
Make 2 small pizzas out of playdough or paperplate and contruction paper toppings. Form 2 lines and give the first person in line a spatula and pizza. With the pizza on the spatula have the child run to the other end of the room and back, hand it to the next person who will do the same.
Sensory Table
Place flour, wooden spoons, measuring cups, mixing bowls and other utensils in the sensory table allow the children to mix up dry ingredients for pizza dough. If you dare allow water for a realistic adventure.
Cheese Tasting
Have the children taste a variety of cheeses like: american, cheddar, parmeson, mozzarella, provolone, etc.
Books:
Hi, Pizza Man! by: Virginia Walter
Curious George and the Pizza by: Margaret Rey
Pizza soup by: ?
Little Nino's Pizzeria by: Karen Barbour's
Paperplate Pizzas
Have the children paint paper plate red. Then have them add shape toppings (square - sausage, circle - pepperoni, rectangle - cheese, triangle - vegs)
Tissue Paper Pizza
Glue tissue paper onto brown round paper. Shredded white for cheese, crumpled small pieces of brown for sausage, small round circles for pepperoni.
Pizza Mobile
Precut items that you would find in a pizza parlor (cooks, pizza, delivery trucks, hats, pans, pizza cutter). Then attach to different lengths of yarn and tie onto a wire hanger. |
PIZZA BINGO
make up cards with pictures of things that go on pizza (dough, sauce, pepperoni, etc) and then make cards to call that match the playing cards.
HOW DO YOU MAKE A PIZZA GROW?
How do you make a pizza grow?
You pound and you pull and you stretch the dough
And throw in tomatoes and oregano.
Pizza platter for twenty-two
Pour on the oil and soak it through.
Pizza slices for forty-four,
Chop up onions, make some more.
Pizza pie for sixty-six
With mozzarella cheese that melts and sticks.
Pizza, pizza for ninety-nine
With pepperoni sausage ground-up fine.
Pizza, pizza stretch the dough.
Pizza, pizza make it grow.
-Eve Merriam
PIZZA COOKBOOK
This can easily be done in one of the great pizza shaped books ideas I have seen here. One on one sit with a child and ask them how to make a pizza, if the child isn't sure then ask how does Mommy or Daddy make pizza. Guide your questions to "what do you do first?" and "how would you do that?" write down word for word what they say. After all the children have had a chance to do one, have them make a picture of their favorite pizza and photocopy a set of everyone's for each child or display as a class book. Read them all out loud and listen to the giggles. We had a blast!!!!
BUILD A PIZZA
Submitted by Janice
Materials:
Cardboard;scissors;construction paper(red,gray,pink,green and yellow);claer contact paper;dice;pizza box
What to do:
4 children can play the game at one time
cut out 4 6" circles from a piece of cardboard. These will be the pizza crusts
cut out 4 slightly smaller circles from red construction paper. These will represent the sauce
cut out 8 mushroom shapes from gray paper, 12 pepperoni shapes from pink paper, 12 green pepper rings from green paper and 16 strips of cheese fro yellow paper
cover all shapes in contact paper or laminate
The object of the game is to complete a pizza using all of the required ingredients by rolling the appropriate # on the dice. In turn, each child will need to roll a 1 in order to begin
When a child rolls a 1, give her one of the crusts. Continue in turn to construct a pizzza as follows:
Roll a 2, get sauce (one needed)
Roll a 3, get a mushroom (two needed)
Roll a 4, get a green pepper (three needed)
Roll a 5, get a strip of cheese (four needed)
The first child to build a pizza can cheer in the others
Store in the pizza box.
PIZZA FINGERPLAY
Its round and made of dough
Topped with sauce and cheese just so.
(Form circle with hands)
It's a big round treat
Filled with vegetables and meat.
{Rub tummy}
It's a pizza cooked just right.
Are you ready? Have a bite!
{Pretend to eat pizza}
PIZZA CHANT FOR FLANNELBOARD
Make 8 pizza slices for the flannelboard. As you call out a child's name in the chant, that child takes a
slice from the board. You can also reverse it, with each child adding a slice instead of taking it.
8 pieces of pizza
tasty as can be,
(child's name) can eat a slice
and leave some for me.
7 pieces of pizza
tasty as can be,
(child's name) can eat a slice
and leave some for me.
[continue counting down]
1 piece of pizza
tasty as can be,
(child's name) can eat a slice
and leave none for me.
Yum, Yum,
that was fun!
We love a pizza party!
Pizza fingerplay (Italy)?
Cut five pizza shapes out of felt. Decorate them as described in the poem
below. Using felt scraps or felt-tip markers. Then place the shapes on a
flannelboard and recite the poem.
Five little pizzas all in a row.
The first one said,
"Im made with pepperoni, you know"
the second one said,
"Im made with sausage and cheese."
The third one said,
"Don't eat me, please."
The forth one said,
"Ill be your dinner tonight,'
The fifth one said,
"someone has taken a bite!"
Five little pizzas all in a row.
Would you like to eat them?
Yes, I know.
PIZZA SONGS
Pizza poem
(tune of 10 little Indians)
One little, two little, three little pizzas.
Four little, five little, six little pizzas.
Seven little, eight little, nine little pizzas.
Ten little pizzas ready to be delivered!
Cut out felt circles and place on flannelboard as you
sing the song. Or put up the required number of fingers as you sing.
On Top Of My Pizza
(tune: On top of Spaghetti)
On top of my pizza,
All covered with sauce.
I lost my pepperoni
When it rolled off the top!
It rolled under the table
And onto the floor.
It rolled over the carpet
And then out the door!
Pizza Shop
Down around the corner in the pizza shop
There were lots of pieces of pizza with pepperoni on top
Along came (child's name) all alone
He (or She) bought one that had (# of pepperonis) pepperoni
And took it home
Note: Do this with a pizza drawing (or feltboard) removing a piece of
pizza with the specified number of pepperonis with each verse.
LITTLE RED HEN MAKES A PIZZA
Little Red Hen (Makes A Pizza), Philemon Sturges
Summary: When the little red hen finds a can of tomato sauce in her pantry,
she decides to make a pizza. But, she doesn't have all the ingredients
necessary. She asks friends to help her, but they answer with "not I" until
they all want to eat the huge pie.
This book is a repetitive story that children can easily follow and join in.
It has fabulous pictures that show a variety of foods and utensils that can
lead to terrific language development.
PIZZA PIE ON FLOOR
Put masking tape down on the rug in a circle shape. Then add lines through the circle tp look like a pizza. have children try to see how many of them fit in each slice, on the whole pizza. Play a game where someone pretends to eat a piece and the children have to find another slice to move on to until they cannot fit anymore.
Leave the pizza set up and give the children manipulatives to put on the pizza, "how many peperoni(milk tops or blocks) fit on a slice etc?"
PIZZA DOGS
You need:
Glass baking dish - square or rectangle non-stick cooking spray
hot dogs - sliced almost in half
spaghetti or pizza sauce
shredded cheese - I use shredded Mexican but any shredded cheese will do.
How to make:
Set over to 375 degrees F. Spray inside of glass baking dish with cooking spray. Place hot dogs side by side in the baking dish with sliced side up. Bake for approximately 15 minutes on middle shelf of oven. Pull out of oven and spread a layer of spaghetti or pizza sauce over the hot dogs. Make sure it goes into the sliced part. Sprinkle shredded cheese over the sauce...use a lot! Bake for approximately 7 minutes or until the cheese is melted and slightly brown. Serve!
Strawberry Pizza
A sweet, fruitful summertime recipe.
by Michele Urvater
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 12 minutes
Servings: 4
This "pizza" is perfect as a sweet afternoon snack for the whole family. While the dish works with many kinds of fruit, it looks most like a real pizza when it's made with fresh strawberry rounds.
1 refrigerated, unbaked 9-inch pie crust
1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese or low-fat cottage cheese
2-3 teaspoons sugar
1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pint fresh strawberries-hulled, rinsed, dried, and cut into 1/4-inch-thick rounds
1/4 cup low-fat vanilla yogurt or plain yogurt mixed with a drop of vanilla extract and 1 teaspoon sugar
1. Preheat the oven to 450°F. Remove pie crust from its pouch and unfold. Peel off top layer of plastic and dust crust with flour. Place crust, floured side down, on a baking sheet and remove second piece of plastic. (If crust cracks, wet your fingers and push cracks together to seal.) Prick center of crust with a fork, and bake 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Transfer to a cake rack and let cool completely.
2. Puree cheese in a blender, then combine with sugar and vanilla extract. Spread mixture on the cooked crust to within 1/2 inch of outside rim.
3. Arrange strawberry rounds (make sure they don't overlap) on top of cheese. Stir yogurt well and drizzle across strawberries so it resembles melted mozzarella. Refrigerate until cool and serve.
Nutritional information per slice: 369 cal, 20 g fat, 9 g saturated fat, 49% cal from fat, 10 g protein, 37 g carbohydrates, 354 mg sodium, 34 mg cholesterol
MINI HEART PIZZAS
Need: Refrigerated biscuits, pizza
sauce, mozarella cheese, pepperonis, and heart cutter.
Flatten out bisuits, cut out a heart, then make as a
pizza!!
5 LITTLE PIZZAS
Submitted by Kim
Cut five pizza shapes out of felt. Decorate them as described in the poem below. Using felt scraps or felt-tip markers. Then place the shapes on a flannelboard and recite the poem.
Five little pizzas all in a row.
The first one said,
"Im made with pepperoni, you know"
the second one said,
"Im made with sausage and chesse."
The third one said,
"dont eat me, please."
The forth one said,
"Ill be your dinner tonight,'
The fith one said,
"someone has taken a bite!"
Five little pizzas all in a row.
Would you like to eat them?
Yes, I know.
PIZZA DAY ACTIVITIES
I Wish I Were a Pepperoni Pizza
(sung to "The Oscar Mayer Theme Song)
Oh, I wish I were a pepperoni pizza,
That is what I'd truly like to be.
For if I were a pepperoni pizza,
Everyone would be in love with me!
Additional verses: "Oh, I wish I were a cheese and sausage pizza; an olive and mushroom pizza," etc. let the children take turns naming their favorite kinds of pizza and singing about them.
Small, Medium, Large
Make 3 pizzas out of posterboard, one small, one medium, and one large. Talk about the differences in size. Then one at a time, give the children sets of 3 objects in small, medium, and large sizes (stuffed animals, toy cars paper pumpkin shapes, etc.) Have them sort the objects by placing them next to the matching sized pizzas.
Collage Pizzas
Make paint by mixing red powder tempera paint with liquid starch. Cut various kinds of pizza topping shapes out of colored construction paper (brown pepperoni circles, black olive ovals, yellow pineapple wedges, green pepper ringsm tan mushroom slices, etc.). Pour yellow cornmeal into a shaker container.
Give each child a pizza wheel (or a circle cut out of cardboard). Have the children brush the red paint "tomato sauce" generously over their pizza wheels.
Then let them arrange the pizza topping shapes on top of the wet paint and sprinkle on yellow cornmeal for cheese.
Mini Pizzas
Prepare a variety of pizza toppings. Include tomato and cheese plus any other toppings the children might like. Have the children place refrigerator biscuits on a cookie sheet and press them flat to make mini pizza crusts. Then let then put on their choice of toppings. Bake the pizzas at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.
Variation: Use toasted English muffin halves. Place the pizzas under a broiler until the cheese is hot and bubbly.
PIZZA IDEAS
Pizza Snacks
English Muffin Pizzas
Materials:
pizza sauce
cheese
spoon
baking sheet
english muffin (1/2 per child)
Have the children spread pizza sauce over top of muffin. Then they can add cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 - 11 minutes.
Pizza Pockets
Materials:
Spoon
Grands Biscuits
Pizza Sauce
Cheese
Sausage
Roll out biscuit to make it 5 inches in diameter. Then spoon on sauce, cheese, and sausage leaving about a half inch from the sides. The fold over to form a pocket and seal edges by pressing with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 - 15 minutes.
Make Your Own Pizza
Have the children bring in their favorite pizza toppings. Then make the individual crusts, spread on the sauce, add toppings, and then add the cheese. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or until cheese is a light brown.
Biscuit/Bagel Pizzas
Take refrigerator biscuits and flatten out or bagels. Then add sauce, add topping to resemble a face, and cheese. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
MATH:
Sorting - Sort toppings on pizza into food groups.
Serration - Laminate small, medium and large pizzas. Have the children put in order smallest to largest and then largest to smallest.
Matching - Laminate 2 of the same pizzas. Have the children match the like pizzas.
Graphing - Have the children graph favorite toppings on their pizza.
Sequencing - Have the children put in order how to make a pizza. (make crust, spread on pan, spread sauce, add toppings, add cheese, bake, and then eat.)
Fractions - divide whole pizza into a 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4.
MUSIC:
Pizza...
Piz-za, piz-za. Let's have piz-za!
Let's have piz-za with cheese on top!
Piz-za, piz-za. Let's have piz-za!
(Anyone's name) wants piz-za with (what ever topping they mention) on top!
Pizza Song... (Twinkle, Twinkle)
Pizza, pizza it's a treat.
Pizza, pizza is fun to eat!
Ooey-gooey cheese so yummy.
Crunchy crust goes in my tummy.
Pizza, pizza it's a treat.
Pizza, pizza is fun to eat!
This is the way....
This is the way we roll the dough
roll the dough, roll the dough,
This is the way we roll the dough when we make a pizza.
Verses:
This is the way we grade the cheese.
This is the way we cut the meat.
This is the way we bake the pizza.
Five Little Pizzas
Five little pizzas sitting in a row, toss one up, then there was four.
Four little pizzas.....
Three little pizzas........
Two little pizzas........
One little pizza......
No little pizzas.....
Roll Your Dough (Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Roll, roll, roll your dough
smoothly as can be.
Roll it till it's big and round,then add some good toppings.
A Pizza Hut
A Pizza Hut! A Pizza Hut! Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut!
McDonald's, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Pizza Hut!
When we were driving down the street
My mother asked me where I wanted to eat.
(repeat chorus)
My dad said, "Please make up your mind, or all the places will be left behind."
(repeat chorus)
Who Stole the Pizza from the Pizza Pan?
1st child says: who stole the pizza from the pizza pan?
1st child chooses another child and says: __________ stole the pizza from the pizza pan.
Choosen child says: Who me?
1st child: Yes you!
Choosen child: Couldn't be!
1st child: Then who?
(repeat choosing another child until every child has a turn)
Making The Crust...
Set out white playdoh and have the children roll it out with small rolling pins. You can add different colored playdoh for the children to add topping if you wish.
Paper Pizza Reward Chart Or Puzzle...
Draw a large circle on white poster board with a smaller sized circle inside (3/4" in from outside circle). Have the children color in the "crust" (the outer circle) a tanish/brown crust color and the inner circle color in a reddish orange for the sauce.Glue on paper food... we use pink Canadian bacon, red pepperoni, brown hand torn pieces of sausage, tan mushrooms,little "dices" of green pepper and the best, but most tedious small sliver strips of white mozzarella cheese (it's best to put these on by putting on several at a time) we glue all these on to our crust with white glue. Once dry I use contact paper as a laminate to cover the top of the pizza so no pieces fall off. Draw lines so that there are 8 pieces of pizza and let the kids cut them out. Child needs to write there name on back of each slice of pizza. Put the pieces together in order matching up your slices with the one that should be next to it...number the slices in clockwise order. Then glue magnets to the back of each slice. Once dry the children have a wonderful pizza puzzle that they can take home. We use ours as incentive charts...if child does something extra special that day they get a slice of pizza. When chart is complete they get a reward!
Pizza Toss
Throwing frisbies and pretend they are pizza crusts.
Pizza Relay
Make 2 small pizzas out of playdough or paperplate and contruction paper toppings. Form 2 lines and give the first person in line a spatula and pizza. With the pizza on the spatula have the child run to the other end of the room and back, hand it to the next person who will do the same.
Sensory Table
Place flour, wooden spoons, measuring cups, mixing bowls and other utensils in the sensory table allow the children to mix up dry ingredients for pizza dough. If you dare allow water for a realistic adventure.
Cheese Tasting
Have the children taste a variety of cheeses like: american, cheddar, parmeson, mozzarella, provolone, etc.
Books:
Hi, Pizza Man! by: Virginia Walter
Curious George and the Pizza by: Margaret Rey
Pizza soup by: ?
Little Nino's Pizzeria by: Karen Barbour's
Paperplate Pizzas
Have the children paint paper plate red. Then have them add shape toppings (square - sausage, circle - pepperoni, rectangle - cheese, triangle - vegs)
Tissue Paper Pizza
Glue tissue paper onto brown round paper. Shredded white for cheese, crumpled small pieces of brown for sausage, small round circles for pepperoni.
Pizza Mobile
Precut items that you would find in a pizza parlor (cooks, pizza, delivery trucks, hats, pans, pizza cutter). Then attach to different lengths of yarn and tie onto a wire hanger.
