Mama Mia's Pizzaria

Pp is for PIZZA!!! We had so much fun with this unit! Here are some of the fun activities we did.

* We made a class book titled " How to Make a Pizza". Each child drew a picture of a pizza and dictated their recipe for pizza.

* For art we made pizzas, of course. We used paper plates and they painted the edges brown for the crust, and red paint for the sauce. We had red cirlcles for pepperoni, yellow yarn for cheese, and construction paper peppers, sausage, mushrooms, and olives.

* We read The Princess and the Pizza, Curious George and the Pizza Party, Funny Lunch, and Hi, Pizza Man!

* I made a big flannel board pizza with different pizza topping made out of felt.
    Piz-za ,Piz-za Let's have pizza
Let's have pizza with cheese on top.
Piz-za, piz-za  let's have pizza
_____________ ( child's name) wants pizza with _______ on top.

We did the chant for each child and then the student would place his favorite topping on the pizza.

* Mama Mia's Pizzaria- This was a perfect theme for some excellent dramatic play. We used a table cloth, empty pizza boxes, menus, pretend pizza set, rollers, pizza cutters, aprons and chefs hat. They had a blast taking turns being the customer and the pizza parlor employee.

* Pizza Bingo- I made the pizza bingo set using recycled cereal boxes cut into the shape of a pizza slice and decorated them with paint and construction paper. I used a craft punch to cut out the pepperoni circles.

* We also made a class graph of our favorite pizza toppings.