Felt Pizza Craft & Exercise

Pizza, pizza get together! It’s all the time a celebration when pizza is on the menu, and now you’ll be able to get together on a regular basis with this pizza craft that doubles as a reusable exercise. Making the craft requires some assist from a grown up – we do fairly a little bit of chopping and use a scorching glue gun – however little ones will like to play together with your pizza craft by making their very own pizzas with totally different topping mixtures, and possibly even opening their very own faux pizza store for some imaginary play! You’ll be able to retailer the craft and preserve it readily available for at any time when the temper strikes for a pizza get together! And naturally, be sure you play the Tremendous Easy Music Pizza Social gathering when it does!

Issues You Want

Paper plate
White glue
Glue gun
Markers
Scissors
Bottle cap (or one thing round to hint)
Felt – varied colours to your totally different toppings! We used a light-weight brown (13”x13”) for the pizza crust, crimson and white (7.5”x7.5”) for the tomato sauce and cheese, in addition to pink, inexperienced, yellow, darkish brown, orange and black for different toppings!

Steps

Let’s make the crust of your pizza! Paint a good coat of white glue into the within of your paper plate, protecting the entire facet.

Stick your massive gentle brown felt piece onto the plate by rubbing from the within out to the outer fringe of the plate. This helps the felt keep on with the plate with out creating air bubbles or ridges.

Flip the plate over and minimize the felt across the plate leaving a 3/4” fringe of felt across the plate’s edge.

With a glue gun glue, glue the surplus felt to the underside of the plate’s rim to finish your crust!

Let’s make some pizza toppings!

To make the tomato sauce, use a marker to loosely hint the inside circle of the paper plate onto your crimson piece of felt. Then minimize out the form!

To make the cheese, hint one other circle onto your white piece of felt and minimize it out. Then minimize small strips from one other piece of felt to make shredded cheese and glue them onto your white circle utilizing a scorching glue gun.

To make pepperoni, hint a bottle cap (or one thing round) onto a crimson piece of felt. Lower them out and use a brown marker to make little dots so they give the impression of being extra like pepperoni.

To make mushrooms, draw mushroom shapes onto a brown piece of felt and minimize them out.

We additionally made pineapple, ham, inexperienced and orange peppers and olives by chopping shapes from totally different coloured felt. You can also make different toppings too!

Pineapples – triangles from yellow felt.

Ham – squares from pink felt.

Peppers – rectangles from inexperienced and orange felt.

Olives – circles with the center minimize out from black felt. When you’ve minimize your circle, fold it in half so you’ll be able to minimize out the inside circle out.

Now you’re prepared for a pizza get together!

Let your baby discover and make totally different pizzas by including totally different toppings to the plate. This can be a nice time to discover shapes and colours! Discuss in regards to the colours and shapes of the toppings as they place them on the pizza.

Encourage them to open up their very own faux pizza store! Faux to name into the pizza store and order a pizza, describing the toppings you need. Then have them create the pizza and ship it to you!