June 23rd, 2010 Pizza fun with kids Posted by Melitsa in Cooking, Homemade, language, play activities

We stumbled across this recipe from Our best bites. We often have a pizza night along with our family night where we often make pizza.

We decided to use the family night to make and eat the pizza. This was a great together activity. The boys cut, weighed, placed and worked on these pizzas.

We made two types of pizza balls; a cheese based one and a meat based one.

Our basic ingredients

• Mozzarella cheese
• Pineapple and sweetcorn

( slices of precooked chicken- leftovers)

Plus refrigerated pizza dough.

• Layout the dough according to package instructions.
• Using a pizza cutter. Divide into large squares.
• Add your filling

• Pinch each closed so the filling is inside and the dough is outside.
• Place seam side down in a greased dish.
• Brush top with garlic butter/oil and sprinkle liberally with Parmesan cheese.

We poured seasoned sauce in a ramekin for dipping.

Cooking with kids is a lot of fun. They can get really creative and usually eat what they make

As a recipe we all loved it. It was labour intensive having to roll up each bite but the time together was totally worth it.

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Melitsa Avila is a former teacher, mother of three boys and military wife who talks about living an intentional play lifestyle using practical and everyday play activities to do with the under 5s. She publishes related ebooks & newsletters. Melitsa is the host and producer of a weekly Early Childhood radio show: Raising Playful Tots bringing parents and carers together with Early childhood practitioners. Thanks for reading!

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