Pizza Parlour
Last "Math Monday," May and I were inspired by an online post about busy bags. One was a pizza parlour. So we got out our felt scraps and cut up toppings. Then we set about writing out recipe cards. Ok, to be fair, I wrote down the recipes and May colored them in.
May had a great time thinking up recipes for each member of our family as well as our friends. We have a friend who can't eat dairy, so May was sure to leave the cheese off of her pizza recipe.
Then May practiced reading and following the recipe cards. Because she had chosen the shapes for the toppings as well as colored in the cards, she was able to read the recipes without any problems.
It was quite adorable to watch her counting out all the specific toppings.
Here is a "Pickled Pepper Pizza" - complete with 6 cheeses, 10 green peppers, 6 yellow peppers, and two tomatoes.
Recipe after recipe, May churned out the pizzas, then put all the toppings back in their proper cups.
It was exhausting!
We spent well over an hour making and exploring with this.
Finally we packed it all up to put in the toybox. When James got home he had a fun time trying to actually read the recipe cards and put the pizzas together.
2 comments:
What a fun activity!! Ezra just asked if WE can try that too....then he asked why May is so mad in the first picture? HA HA HA You're such an amazing Mom Krissy!!
Ha ha ha! Tell Ezra that she's not mad, just making the "CH" part of "CHEESE!" which is how 50% of her pictures turn out.
And thanks for the kudos. It's nice to get positive feedback as I'm pretty sure every mom on earth feels that she could be doing more, doing better. Sometimes it's good to hear that what I'm doing is enough.
Love you!
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