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Making Pizzas

01/05/2009 19:26:00

This activity idea was submitted by Safe And Sound Daycare, a childminding practice in Brighton and Hove.

What did you do and how did you do it?
Pizzas – we went to the supermarket to purchase the ingredients and decide on which vegetables the children wanted on their pizzas.
We made the pizza dough using a bread machine; occasionally lifting the lid to see what stage the dough was at. Whilst the dough was being made we prepared the vegetables – slicing and dicing.
When the dough was ready, the children were each given a piece of dough, which they rolled out. They then spread tomato puree over the top, added the vegetables they wanted (sliced tomatoes, tinned sweetcorn, sliced mushrooms, chopped peppers) and covered them with grated cheddar cheese.
The pizzas were then cooked and the children had the option to eat all or part of their pizza for tea or to take them home to share with their families.

What equipment, money, knowledge or experience did you need? Scales, bread machine, grater, knives and chopping boards. Quite cheap to make. Would need knowledge of how to make dough and more time if not using the bread machine.
If a friend wanted to do something similar, what tips would you give them? Prepare all the ingredients beforehand if they thought the children weren't old enough to use knives and greaters.
 
 
 
CURRICULUM LINKS (FOUNDATION STAGE)
Communication, Language and Literacy
Language for Communication and Thinking: the adults and the children talked about the ingredients, the people in the supermarket, the dough making process, the pizza building process and finally the taste and texture of the finished pizza.
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
Shape, Space and Measures: weighing the vegetables in the supermarket and the ingredients for the bread machine.
Numbers as Labels and for Counting: counting the slices of mushroom and pieces of tomato the children placed on top of the pizza.
Physical Development
Health and Bodily Awareness: talking about healthy topping for pizzas, how the pizza base fills us up and keeps us satisfied until our next meal and how the calcium in the cheese helps make our bones strong.
Using Equipment and Materials: learning how to weigh the ingredients, use the bread machine, the grater to grate the cheese, the knives to prepare the vegetables and how we spread the tomato puree over the base.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Designing and Making: learning how to assemble the ingredients on top of the pizza and some of the children used the vegetables to make a pattern or picture on their pizzas.
Creative Development
Being creative – Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas & Exploring Media and Materials: the children talked about the texture and taste of the ingredients and the smell and taste when the pizza was cooked.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Dispositions and Attitudes: the children being interested and excited about constructing something they area able to eat.
Making Relationships: working alongside one another and forming relationships with them.
Behaviour and Self-Control: learning to work together and respect what another child is making.
Self-care: the children learnt that they needed to wash their hands before making the pizzas.